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Description: | As with other similar tins the reference on the side panels indicating 'By Appointment to the late King George V' dates this tin to the latter years of the 1930s. The simple design used on this paper covered tin was the standard one used by Huntley & Palmers throughout this period. Soldering tins was, by the 1920s, largely a woman's job - as can be seen from the various photographs of the soldering department at Huntley, Boorne & Stevens. Soldering a tin such as this shut, as opposed to simply soldering the sides together, probably indicates that it was intended for a "distant Market". A catalogue from the late 1930s explains that the biscuits "are packed in air tight soldered tins for distant Markets, or in tins with ordinary lids for Home and most Continental Markets". | 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: | non-representational garter communication buckle inscription decorative art | Temporal: | start=1937-01-01; end=1937-12-31; | 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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