Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed shop sign this beautiful basket also carries

this beautiful basket also carries the spiritual and historical significance of the whale to the Makah

stylized star

It is in good vintage condition

and then smartly looped through the weave of the basket below

Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed shop sign this beautiful basket also carriesI 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