Antique American Navy Tin Tobacco Tag Pre 1900s Battleship Collectible Intact Backing Lithograph 1.5 x 1 Inch 🚬 planters_nos_collectible The box and its labeling

The box and its labeling are part of what makes this a documented piece rather than an undifferentiated vintage find

rather than star-shaped

NOS means the badge is still on its original display card

and export goods returned to the simpler "Made in Japan" or just "Japan" designation that had been standard before the war

Antique American Navy Tin Tobacco Tag Pre 1900s Battleship Collectible Intact Backing Lithograph 1.5 x 1 Inch 🚬 planters_nos_collectible The box and its labelingCan You Imagine Holding the Same Piece of Tin a Coal Miner Slipped Into His Shirt Pocket in 1897? There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you hold something genuinely old not decoratively old, not reproduction old, but actually old, in the way that means a human hand touched it before the automobile existed. This tag produces that stillness. A rectangle of printed tin, barely an inch and a half across, lithographed in red and