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Chewing tobacco—also known as plug tobacco or “chaw”—was the most common way to consume the tobacco plant in the mid-to-late 1800s. During this time American tobacco companies produced a variety of products related to chewing tobacco, including pouches, pipes, and spittoons. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a number of these items used Masonic imagery on their products or as part of a brand name. A few years ago the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library was given a tobacco pouch that advertises “on the Square” plug tobacco. The name fits within a square and compasses printed on the pouch. In 2020 another benefactor donated a tin tobacco container to the museum that appears to been made for this same tobacco manufacturer. Viewed together, these two objects and shed some light on a tobacco product made with a Masonic audience in mind.
