St. Olaf College 3D object collection ➔ B.J. Muus' cigar humidor
Objects
Usage: late 19th century Single
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items
A wood cigar humidor with metal corner covers and a metal plate on the lid with an engraved "BJM". The humidor also has a lock and two metal handles on the sides. Blue velvet lines the inside lid and shows a scene of a bird on a branch in stitching. A metal box with a lid rests inside, with three compartments: two open spaces divided by a lidded compartment with a sponge. The wood exhibits minor marks, and the green felt on the bottom is deteriorating.
A wood cigar humidor with metal corner covers and a metal plate on the lid with an engraved "BJM". The humidor also has a lock and two metal handles on the sides. Blue velvet lines the inside lid and shows a scene of a bird on a branch in stitching. A metal box with a lid rests inside, with three compartments: two open spaces divided by a lidded compartment with a sponge. The wood exhibits minor marks, and the green felt on the bottom is deteriorating.
Archives Work Area ➔ 250J
277A
277A
This cigar humidor belonged to B.J. Muus, the founder of Saint Olaf College, and was donated in the mid-1940s by his grandson, Bernt Klüver, via Muus' great-grandson, Ian Odd Western.
A typed note, dated May 22, 1946, included with the humidor reads, "This humidor and watch were promised as a gift to St. Olaf | College by the artist, Bernt Clüver, grandson of the Reverend | B.J. Muus, before he died. The widow after Bernt Clüver, now | fru Reidar Brustad,1.Frimannsgt.1, A, Bergen, Norway, fulfilled | the promise by sending these items to St. Olaf College by | Ian Odd Western, great-grandson of Rev. Muus, when he came to | study at the University of Minnesota 1945-46."
A typed note, dated May 22, 1946, included with the humidor reads, "This humidor and watch were promised as a gift to St. Olaf | College by the artist, Bernt Clüver, grandson of the Reverend | B.J. Muus, before he died. The widow after Bernt Clüver, now | fru Reidar Brustad,1.Frimannsgt.1, A, Bergen, Norway, fulfilled | the promise by sending these items to St. Olaf College by | Ian Odd Western, great-grandson of Rev. Muus, when he came to | study at the University of Minnesota 1945-46."
Muus, B.J. (related)
Brown, Jr., Forrest E. (related)
Cluver, Bernt Julius Muus (donor)
Brown, Jr., Forrest E. (related)
Cluver, Bernt Julius Muus (donor)
Cigars
Smoking
Smoking
humidors
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