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TOBACCO HOLDER
Unique ID: NLM-9BD95F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead probable tobacco jar lid handle. Solid cast head bearing two addorsed faces with an African-American male cast to their short curled hair and facial features. Below the head, the casting broadens at the shoulders, where it is now frayed. It has a flat oval panel below its centre line. The style resembles that of figures representing a bare-knuckle pugilist, sometimes associated with named boxers enjoying a fleeting celebrity, though these figurines do not have the Janiform aspect distinguishing this example. The political campaign against slavery, which culminated in Abolition across British territories in 1807, brought the portraiture of black people to a mass audience in England. The subject was already associated with tobacco because of the trade in plantation slaves which flourished in British keels, and the association between tobacco and other crops and the West Indies. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1800.
Height: 43.4mm, Width: 27.5mm, Weight: 166.15gms.
Class: Lid Handle
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Undergoing further examination at a museum
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 43.4 mm
Width: 27.5 mm
Weight: 166.15 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 11th April 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36769
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Ferriby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9921
Four figure Latitude: 53.67609995
Four figure longitude: -0.50277172
1:25K map: SE9921
1:10K map: SE92SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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