Smoking mixture with shredded beech leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41517 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Fagus sylvatica | Entry Book Number | 38.1919 | |
| Artefact Name | Smoking mixture with shredded beech leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Germany | TDWG Region | Germany | ||
| Parts Held | Smoking mixture with shredded beech leaves | Geography Description | Germany | ||
| Uses | Smoking mixture with shredded beech leavesUse: SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs User: Man | TDWG use | SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Roberts Rev JM | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Mixture consists mainly of shredded beech leaves. Kriegstabak Mischung No 184, 75 gram Pieces of twigs of the beech are also present, and a few portions of the fruiting involucre? of the same LaB 6.8.19. Food Production Dept. 85846/H/19 Be, ech leaf tobacco. Presence of added scent has not been detected. The leaves yield the same odour as brown, fallen beech leaves, when heated or burnt. LaB 19.1.19. Opuscular source: Letter 280, 1919, xiii p 56. From Rev Roberts, 8th Sept, 1919: Sir, I, was pleased to receive your analysis of the tobacco (so called) found as issued by the German Govt on corpse of a dead German. You are quite welcome to retain some. | ||||