Tobacco Art: Welcome Nugget Flake Cut Tobacco

Welcome Nugget Flake Cut Tobacco was manufactured by the T.C. Williams Tobacco Company in Virginia, which was bought out by the British-American Tobacco Company. At the time of the merger, 1903, T.C. Williams was described by the New York Times as the "largest independent concern in the South." Various websites have described Welcome Nugget as a brand of cigars or cigarettes, but judging by this tin at eBay, I'd say it was smoking tobacco of the Virginia Flake variety - probably similar to Samuel Gawith "Golden Glow" today.
The phrase "Welcome Nugget" is from a gold nugget found in Australia in 1858. The Welcome Nugget "was honeycombed gold about 20 inches long, 13 inches broad and 8 inches thick. One end was thick and shaped like a horse’s head. To this thick end was a narrow neck about 4 inches in circumference. Then it widened out again. It was 99.6 pure gold," says this site.