Market bundle stick, tobacco
notes: label: Description
content: This market bundle stick is made of split oak with curved, convex-concave sides. One side is smooth and the other is rough. A notch is very roughly cut into an otherwise falt end. The other end is tapered to a point by cutting from one edge to another. This object was donated by Frank Robinson, whose family owned and operated tobacco farms in Maryland. According to Robinson, market bundle sticks like this one were used to put a weight ticket in the top of a bundle of tobacco on the auction floor. Once the auctioneer sold the bundle, the clerk would take the weight ticket and mark it with the price it was sold for.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Franklin A. Robinson Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0009.15
label: accession number
content: 2000.0009
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0009.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Market bundle stick
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 1.3 cm x .152 cm; 8 11/16 in x 1/2 in x 1/16 in