505 = HEAVY VAN NELLE / 1688 = JAVAN BOYS / BRANDARIS = DOUWE EGBERTS / 12.500 GRAM / FL. 1.377,65 + F 345,00 /

2000

When opening a new pack of rolling tobacco, the excise stamp is torn up….and of course kept to use it again when attempting to quit. to make a work. The stamps were cataloged as if by an archivist. First by price, then by factory code BO, DO, NO, OO, etc. Then all stamps were pasted in order from left to right. There are some Belgian stamps in between, the price of which was converted to guilders and which were assigned their place in this way. At the bottom it is stated which brands have been smoked, how many grams of tobacco and how much has been paid for it in guilders and Belgian francs.