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Description: | This tin contained Gem biscuits which were among the first to be automatically packed at Huntley & Palmers in the late 1950s. This tin was produced for the overseas market by the Ming Tea Company, Connecticut. Gem Biscuits are not to be confused with Iced Gem biscuits! The latter were small round sweet biscuits with a dollop of hard coloured icing in the centre. Gem biscuits, as can be seen on this tin, were the same - except they lacked the icing. Instead the centre was stamped with the familiar HP initials, though no doubt most children would have preferred the icing. Why they were condidered so suitable for the African market is unclear - but a Huntley & Palmers tin of them can also be seen the background of the photo of Lady MacMillan (1960) also on this website. | 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 person trade inscription object decorative art biscuit domestic portrait | Temporal: | start=1962-01-01; end=1962-12-31; | 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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