This antique cylindrical tobacco canister features the Gold Leaf brand label from the B. Leidersdorf Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece is constructed of heavy paperboard with an applied printed paper lithograph label. The label advertises Best Selected Stock, Kentucky Smoking tobacco and includes a central graphic of a flowering tobacco plant flanked by the words Bright Kentucky. Text at the bottom identifies the manufacturer as B. Leidersdorf Co. and specifies The American Tobacco Co., Successor, Incorporated. A side panel bears the text Smoke or Chew Gold Leaf. The canister includes a matching fitted lid made of similar unprinted paperboard material.