Tabakdosen für Seefahrer: Hollands auf Zielgruppen ausgerichtetes Verpackungsdesign im 18. Jahrhundert
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Abstract
On the basis of the few tobacco containers in the German Maritime Museum and through comparison with several receptacles from other collections, it was possible to determine how, in the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century, a Netherlandish manufacturer made the transition from the manufacture of wooden splint boxes to the serial production of brass tobacco tins. As a way of deliberately influencing their distribution, he marketed the boxes for specific previously defined target groups by decorating them with engraved pictorial representations. The most elaborately designed specimens were intended to appeal to courtly cavaliers who, however, soon came to prefer more sophisticated alternatives. The sailors, helmsmen, and gunners on military and large merchant vessels each made up a target group of their own, and were lured to purchase boxes with depictions related specifically to themselves, as was also the case with small-time maritime merchants. When one of these persons purchased a container of this sort, he came to possess not only a practical item for everyday use but also - for the first time in a private context - a prestige object of his specific class. In accordance with guild customs, the members ranking below the masters and skippers otherwise owned no private prestige objects, but only the objects belonging jointly to their groups. The owners of serially produced brass tins were clearly distinguished from the wealthy merchants, the skippers of voyages to the East Indies, and even the naval officers on warships through the production of individual tobacco receptacles from more precious materials and with more individualized pictorial representations to indicate their elevated standing. With its handful of serially and individually produced tobacco containers, the German Maritime Museum offers an exemplary overview of the entire spectrum of these prestige objects designed for the seafarers of the eighteenth century.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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