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Description: | One of many similarly sized tins produced for children which contained Iced Gem biscuits. Other related tins feature Beatrix Potter characters, Muffin the Mule characters and other figures from 'Children's Hour' on TV. A tin called 'Mary-Lou' with an Attwell illustration was issued in 1972-1973, and in 1975-1976 a set of five tins called 'Little Friends'. Mabel Lucie Attwell became a household name during the 1930s and 1940s. She was born 4 June 1879 at Mile End in London, the ninth child out of ten children born to a butcher. She studied at various colleges, but because she disliked formal training and grew bored with copying, she never completed a course of study. During her career, as well as illustrating numerous books she designed advertisements, posters, calendars, figurines and wall plaques. Her illustrations of chubby, winsome children were extremely popular from the 1930s until well after her death - as is witnessed by their use on two tins for Huntley & Palmers produced in the 1970s. She died in 1964. | 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: | teddy bear transport Mabel Lucie Attwell train study childhood dog recreation animal | Temporal: | start=1972-01-01; end=1972-12-31; | 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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