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Description: | This tin is a fascinating survival of an otherwise ephemeral kind of tin. Huntley & Palmers had a large cake making business and their wedding cakes brought them great prestige, being used for many royal weddings. This tin is a reminder that they also provided more humdrum wedding cakes. Usually, of course, the tins would be opened, the contents removed, and then the tin would be thrown away. The broken seal created a sharp inner edge and the lack of colourful decorations on the outside meant there was little temptation to use the tin for other purposes. This tin, complete with its contents and the small spiked-tool for breaking the seal, is rare example of a kind of which there must originally have been many thousands. It was donated to the Museum of Reading by a member of the public - one wonders why it was never used?! | 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: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | inscription object tin domestic | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; end=1970-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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