Big Cat Missing

[HughW]

Star, 30 December 1914

Salmon & Gluckstein Lim., (Tobacconists).
Address: 45a, High Street, Sheffield in 1905.

Recorded in: Whites Directory of Sheffield &Rotherham.

SALMON, & Gluckstein Ltd (Tobacconists).
Address: 45a High Street, ~ in 1925.
Recorded in: Sheffield & Rotherham Kelly's Directory.

In this 1965 image from PictureSheffield, Bewley's Tobacconists is the same premises:

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So what is this Big Cat?

[Edmund]

The Lyons firm (catering etc) grew out of the Salmon and Gluckstein tobacco business, and in many places the two brands had adjacent premises - for example in Sheffield the Lyons Tea Rooms were at 45 High Street, S & G at 45a. The Lyons logo was a big cat - possibly an old advertising sign, although S & G had been sold to Imperial Tobacco in 1902.

[RichardB]

WikiGluckie

[RichardB]

Cat image Did S & G make "Black Cat" cigarettes ??

[Edmund]

Cat image Did S & G make "Black Cat" cigarettes ??

Wiki thinks not:

"Black Cat cigarettes were first introduced in the United Kingdom by Carreras Ltd in 1904. The brand was named for a black cat that consistently used to sleep in the window of Carreras' Wardour Street shop; its appearance was so regular, that passersby used to refer to the business as 'the black cat shop'. The Black Cat brand was a pacesetter in the British tobacco market. Besides being among the first machine-made cigarettes to be sold, it was also a pioneering coupon brand. The brand hit its peak in the 1920s, and although cigarette coupons came to an end in Britian in 1934, it still continued to include collectable cigarette cards. Black Cats were withdrawn from sale during the Second World War. They briefly were brought back in 1957, but due to customer demand for filtered cigarettes, it disappeared from the market a couple of years later. They were brought back one more time, this time with a filter tip, beginning in 1976, and Black Cats continued to be sold in Britain until 1993."

[HughW]

Thanks, I thought it would be an advertising cat. Not mentioned again in the Star, so either it turned up or they got another one.

[vox]

It was probably taken by a cat burglar.