CASE, CIGARETTE

Description: GOLD PLATED? CIGARETTE CASE. OUTSIDE TOP AND BOTTOM OF CASE ARE ETCHED WITH A SORT OF TARTAN PATTERN. ON TOP, WITHIN TARTAN PATTERN, IS A RECTANGLE WITHIN WHICH ARE ETCHED THE LETTERS "D R". LID OPENS ON HINGES AT BACK, AND HAS A CLASP IN THE FRONT. INSIDE OF CASE IS PLAIN. THERE IS AN 'ARM' ON INSIDE RIGHT OF CASE (FOR HOLDING CIGARETTES) IMPRESSED WITH "MELISSA" AND "MADE IN ENGLAND". THIS ARM IS ON A SPRING.

History: CASE GIVEN TO DONOR BETWEEN 1965 TO 1975 BY THE PHI GAMMA DELTA FRATERNITY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA IN COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, U.S.A. DONOR'S DAUGHTER BROUGHT ITEMS TO MUSEUM AFTER CLEANING OUT MOTHER'S HOME (DOROTHY) AS SHE WAS MOVING. DOROTHY WAS BORN IN LETHBRIDGE, AND BEGAN SMOKING IN HER 20S (SHE WAS 86 AT TIME OF DONATION), AND QUIT WHEN ORDERED BY HER DOCTOR IN 70S. DOROTHY'S PARENTS BOTH SMOKED AND NEVER STOPPED THEIR CHILDREN FROM DOING SO. DONOR MOVED ACROSS CANADA & U.S. IN 30S BUT RETURNED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1975, STILL A SMOKER. DOROTHY'S FATHER, RALPH MAYNARD, CAME FROM ENGLAND CIRCA 1902. SEE PAST DONATIONS. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS INTERN KIRSTAN SCHAMUHN CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS. SCHAMUHN SPOKE WITH DOROTHY RICHARDS’S DAUGHTER, JUDITH MCILWRAITH, REGARDING HER MOTHER’S PRIOR DONATIONS. NO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS OBJECT WAS DETERMINED UPON CONTACTING NEXT-OF-KIN. PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P20000062001 FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING ARTICLES REGARDING THE FAMILY HISTORY.