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Paper packaging for mosquito coil

Title

Year/Period

mid 20th century

Region

Singapore

Material

paper

Dimension

Object size: 13 x 13.4 cm

Accession No.

2007-51029

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

This packaging comes with the box packaging (for complete artefact see accession no. 2007-51028) for "Tiger Brand" mosquito coils. It belongs to a series of objects (accession nos. 2007-50972 to 51483) that document the lifestyle and consumption of a typical Chinese upper middle-class family in the mid 20th century.