Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed shop sign This is a newer

This is a newer

and would be used as gambling chips or tokens

sterling silver & pewter using the lost wax process

gold-painted flying bird on the corner of the box

and then smartly looped through the weave of the basket below

Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed shop sign This is a newerI purchased this piece because I loved the image of this pink cheeked runner in his white outfit and those brown shoes that don't look especially great for running! I've since learned this is a collegiate tobacco silk; dating to the early 1910s, these silks were issued by Murad cigarettes to entice smokers, college students specifically, to buy their cigarettes. For each college or university targeted, they issued a set of 10 of these depicting