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Title: Ginger Nuts cardboard carton, probably 1933 [Go to resource]
Description: In 1933 Huntley & Palmers carried out a large sales promotion on Ginger Nut biscuits, including the introduction of John Ginger, the character depicted on the front of this carton. Why Huntley & Palmers decided to produce this 'tin' using pressed cardboard is unknown. The firm had begun to use paper packaging in the early 1900s which was proving very popular, selling over 5 million packets a year by 1914. The John Ginger character would have appealed to children and this may have been an attempt by the company to produce novelty packaging that wasn't tin. Whether it was a success or not is unclear however no more novelty tins were produced in pressed cardboard. 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: packaging
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biscuitTemporal: start=1933-01-01; end=1933-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Huntley, Boorne & Stevens Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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