'The Shipp’, a flaking vintage advertisement for Constable’s Virginia tobacco, hand-painted on a wooden panel. Photographed in August 1999 on the façade of tobacconist Marshall’s, also known as The Pipe Shop, at 6 St. Mary’s Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Marshall’s closed in 2006 and this vintage panel has long since disappeared.


Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom: ‘The Shipp’, a flaking vintage advertisement for Constable’s Virginia tobacco hand-painted on a wooden panel, photographed on 35mm film in August 1999 on the façade of the tobacconist Marshall’s, also known as The Pipe Shop, at 6 St. Mary’s Street. Marshall’s closed in 2006 when the owners retired. More recently, the premises have been occupied by a barber shop and both this vintage panel and its companion, a Wills & Co. advertisement, have long vanished from the façade. This is a digital file produced from a high resolution scan of an image captured on 35mm colour transparency film in August 1999. Camera: Nikon FM. Film stock: Fujichrome Provia 100 35mm colour transparency. Scanner: Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED.


Size: 3495px × 5132px
Location: Former Marshall's / The Pipe Shop, 6 St. Mary's Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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