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Description: | This tin was produced (together with larger size export No.1 tin) for export only in 1915. It was one of the few new designs to be produced during the First World War. The shortage of labour and ingredients meant that production of fancy tins was drastically reduced from 580,000 in 1913 to 200,000 in 1915. Huntley & Palmers were also given a contract to supply the army with biscuits, thereby directing their attentions away from tin production. The image on the lid has the feel of a Japanese print and is probably intended to represent the Red-Crowned crane (Grus japonensis). They have bright white bodies with black necks and wing feathers. As their name implies, they also have a "cap" of exposed red skin. Japanese people consider the red-crowned cranes to be a sign of fidelity in marriage. | 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: | bird red crowned crane | Temporal: | start=1915-01-01; end=1915-12-31; | 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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