Sketchfab<\/a><\/p>It is one of many objects later added to the cabinet of \u2018Oriental\u2019 manuscripts and curiosities presented by George Lewis in 1726. Its provenance is unknown. In 1817 the Library was given a piece of mulberry wood from Shakespeare\u2019s tree, but this was a different item and was later donated to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre museum in Stratford.<\/p>"
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"label": "Date of Creation",
"value": "Second half of eighteenth century?"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Tobacco stopper"
},
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"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "CUL"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Wood"
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "From the Lewis Cabinet"
}
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"label": "Tobacco stopper"
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"description": "
In the 1750s the Reverend Francis Gastrell cut down the mulberry tree supposedly planted by Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, having grown tired of tourists asking to see it. The second half of the eighteenth century saw a brisk trade in souvenir objects claimed to be made of wood from Shakespeare\u2019s tree. Tobacco stoppers such as this were common and were used for pressing down tobacco in a pipe.<\/p>