Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed colorful fish Handle is 7/16" in diameter

Handle is 7/16" in diameter

winter and spring

and it's got a great

removable handle

with long and curving trunk

Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed colorful fish Handle is 7/16" in diameterI purchased this piece because I loved the image of this pink cheeked runner in his white outfit and those brown shoes that don't look especially great for running! I've since learned this is a collegiate tobacco silk; dating to the early 1910s, these silks were issued by Murad cigarettes to entice smokers, college students specifically, to buy their cigarettes. For each college or university targeted, they issued a set of 10 of these depicting