C. 1920s-30s Chesterfield Tin with Scratched Cartoon Drawings Signed Walter threaded lid and numbers written in pencil

and numbers written in pencil on the back inside cover

long is 4 7/8" long

England produced this toothpaste from 1860 until 1910

I am not certain why the three different marks

The incised carving itself is pretty lovely too

C. 1920s-30s Chesterfield Tin with Scratched Cartoon Drawings Signed Walter threaded lid and numbers written in pencilI'm sure I should know the names of the characters scratched into the lid on this c. 1920s 30s Chesterfield tin, but my knowledge of comics is fairly limited; definitely they are early ones though, and I do think the character with his nose facing down toward "Chesterfield" may be Billy DeBeck's Barney Google (after whom Google was named) of the strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, which debuted in 1919. What or who Swede and "Oilio" refer to I'm not