Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: DORIEN LEIGH LTD.
Photographer: HOPPÉ, Emil Otto
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007608

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, stamped: For EXAMINATION ONLY; handwritten: England; stamped: MADE IN ENGLAND / COPYRIGHT. [underlined] / LONDO; handwritten: [illeg.]; stamped: E. O. HOPPÉ – LONDON.; handwritten: 45; stamped: PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE / N LOAN; sticker: [star shape] / Return to / BLACK STAR; handwritten: 1355//1969; stamped: ABLE ORIGINAL; sticker: 20 LEXINGTON AVE. NEW YORK; stamped on label: DO NOT DAMAGE; typed on label: LONDON TOBACCO SHOP – 2 1//4 CENTURIES OLD! [underlined] / Messrs Fribourg & Theyer’s tobacco shop in Haymarket is the oldest in London, having been / established for nearly 250 years! Up to / the year 1820 only 10% of the sales was tobacco / the remaining 90% being snuff. It was then / the fashion to vary snuffs during the day and / some fastidious people kept a room specially / for storing the. Purveyors to the Royal / Family txxx [sic] the shop has supplied orders for snuff to Queen Charlotte and the Prince of Wales / King George IV).

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / STORES TOBACCO AND WIGS
Retouching: N