About this objectA guillotine style cutter used to cut plugs of tobacco (leaf tobacco) to put into smoking pipes or made into a cigar or cigarette.
The cutter is held to a wooden base with screws and has a well worm wooden striker plate.
MakerUnknown
Subject and Association KeywordsRecreation
Subject and Association KeywordsTobacco
Subject and Association DescriptionTobacco cutters were important tools for pipe smokers until self-made or manufactured cigarettes began to dominate the tobacco sales market from the 1920s.
(In 1818 Governor Macquarie first experimented with cultivating tobacco at Emu Plains and by the 1920s tobacco was being grown in the Hunter Valley.)
