Bidspirit auction | Cope Bros & Co Ltd

Cope Bros & Co Ltd Tobacco Display Cabinet - An ebonised wood and glass countertop tobacco merchant’s display cabinet for Cope Bros & Co. Ltd. of Liverpool and London. The glass front features six horizontal bands of reverse-painted gilded lettering advertising various tobacco blends including Cope's Counts, Turkish, Rose Bud Virginia, May Flower (Scented), and Silk Cut, with retail prices of 6d and 8d per ounce. The cabinet is detailed with a carved rope-twist molding to the cornice and a foliate-scroll carved base, fitted with a vertical stack of six side drawers having brass-toned pull knobs. A stamped mark to the reverse base reads THIS IS THE PROPERTY OF COPE BROS & CO LTD. The interior contains a collection of lithographed tobacco and cigarette tins including Player's Medium Navy Cut, Grand Cut Virginia, W.T. Davies & Sons Sweet Briar Flake, J.G. Dill's Best Cut Plug, W.D. & H.O. Wills Gold Flake, and Murray's Seashell Navy Cut. 27 inches high by 22.5 inches wide by 6 inches deep.