Wrapper, paper

Collection object


1981.0052
16.8 x 5.5 Oval 10.0 x 5.0.
Wrapper, paper, for Clune's Thomond Plug tobacco. Rectangular with oval central swelling. White field. The oval has a drawing of the Sarsfield Statue, Limerick, blue on yellow, with a scroll, in blue, inscribed white, Thomond Plug, the oval bordered with green shamrocks. Inscribed at statue head level in blue: Trade Mark registered, and across legs, in red: The Worlds best plug. Bevel of statue plinth inscribed in blue: Freedom. Plinth inscribed in blue: Sarsfield Statue / Limerick / erected 1881. On rectangular section below, cutting statue plinth: John Clune Ltd within line borders, blue on yellow, diagonally. Below border: Tobacco Manufacturers (blue) / Limerick (red). To l. of plinth, circular trade mark inscribed (red) Deanta in Eireann. Above oval section, upside down, diagonally: shamrock (green) Clunes (red) Thomond Plug (black on yellow within red border, curving) / Limerick (black on yellow) on harp (yellow). Red border to rectangular portions.