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Description: | This tin, advertised in Jacob's 1936 Christmas catalogue, is interesting because it was probably produced to celebrate the anticipated coronation of King Edward VIII who had come to the throne in January 1936. When King Edward then abdicated on 11th December 1936 Jacob's had no need to withdraw the tin since it did not feature a portrait or name of any kind. The tin was therefore 'reused' for the Coronation of King George VI the following year. The grandmother of the donor kept a grocery and off-licence business in a Bristol suburb and sold Jacob's biscuits. In 1937 she gave the tin, fill of biscuits, to her grandson because he was interested in royalty and soldiers. The tin later formed part of the lady's shop window display in honour of V.E. Day in May 1945 and again for V.J. Day. It also formed part of a display of model soldiers shown in the Hall of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Bristol to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. | 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: | Jacob and Co. | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | transport coach royalty | Temporal: | start=1936-01-01; end=1937-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Barringer, Wallis and Manners | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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