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Description: | These large shop display tins, more than any others, would have been the tins most familiar to most British people in the period before the Second World War. Most biscuits were sold from them, rather than the smaller fancy tins, which were for special occasions. Grocers would buy a variety of these display tins and weigh out the biscuits into brown paper bags on request - very much like the jars of sweets that are still used in a few confectioner's shops. This tin however, as can be seen, was used to display Smith's Potato Crisps. Smith's Potato Crisps Ltd was first formed by Frank Smith in the Cricklewood in 1920. A mid-nineteenth century American invention, crisps had been introduced into Britain a few years earlier, but it was Smith who popularised this culinary invention here. He set up a business in his garage - using his wife to peel, slice and fry, while Smith packaged them in greaseproof bag, before setting off in his cart to sell the snack around London. The business flourished but later, like Huntley & Palmers, was swallowed up by Nabisco, which explains the presence of this tin in the Museum of Reading collection. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Smith's Crisps | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade advertising tin | Temporal: | start=1935-01-01; end=1950-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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