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Description: | Nineteenth century manufacturers often used images of their factory on their advertising and packaging. For many today such pictures, with smoke billowing from chimneys and tiny figures hurrying about hard at work, suggest thoughts of exploitation, industrial discontent and pollution. However, for the manufacturers such images clearly suggested the latest technology, high quality products and wealth creation - and presumably it must have been read in the same way by the buyers of their products. Jacob's, Carr's, and Mackies of Edinburgh all produced biscuit tins and advertising of this kind. Huntley & Palmers made lithographed tins with their factory on in the early 1870s. Paper covered tins like this were probably first produced around the turn of the century. The sizes of the tins vary. Some records talk of a 'Standard no. 1(small)' and a 'Standard no. 2(large)'. Catalogues from the 1930s, however, show three sizes - 1/2lb., 1lb. and 2lb. Some tins, such as this, show the new Kings Road factory, which was completed in 1937, so it must have been produced at a later date. All the tins indicate the biscuit variety contained within at either end. This tin originally contained 'Ginger Nuts'. A label on the base suggests that is was a 'Dummy' tin. There is a contents label on the base (also slighly different from earlier examples) in a variety of languages and scripts - whether this meant the tin was for export or whether it was designed to impress home consumers is unclear - perhaps both! | 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: | plant non-representational building environment trade communication factory inscription industry | Temporal: | start=1937-01-01; end=1937-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens (probably) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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