"Sweetheart's Mother Goose" Wax Paper Drinking Straws
Date1945-1955
Dimensions21 × 9.2 × 2.2 cm (8 1/4 × 3 5/8 × 7/8 in.)
Credit LineCollection of Museum London, 1990
Object number1990.001.001
Label TextThese Sweetheart Mother Goose straws are made of waxed paper. American Marvin Stone filed a patent for a paraffin-coated paper straw in 1888. By 1890, his factory, which had manufactured cigarette holders, produced more straws than cigarette holders. Paper straws gave way to plastic in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, in response to concerns about single-use plastics, paper straws are coming back into their own.
NameStraw
HUMPHRYS' HATS
