M & S continues to produce some fantastic packaging. We bought a few items last week - and thought we’d share photos with you in case you haven’t seen any of it.
We’ll start with this pizza box for the pastrami pizza - with its New York cop and stetson-wearing tourist.
The characters are very reminiscent of Miroslav Sasek book illustrations from the 1950s & 60s.
The other products we picked up have much more of a British feel - perfect for this Diamond Jubilee & London Olympic year.
These chocolate teacakes are covered with Union Jack bunting & flags. What does that pigeon know that we don’t?
Next up we have the old red telephone box.
It’s harking back to the days when telephone box queues were a common sight - pre mobile phone days - the variety of characters each waiting their turn.
We just love the punk rocker blowing his bubblegum.
It’s a close run thing, but our favourite item of the batch is probably the biscuit tin below. Again, the artwork is very Sasek inspired - with a bit of Bill Charmatz thrown in.
The design a real classic with scenes of the British Isles to the sides and traditional London sights to the lid.
Also, the tin will last years and can be used over & over again.
It’s fantastic when you buy a useful & beautiful storage tin - crammed full of lovely biscuits that you just have to eat first!!
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Any Jane Austen fans out there?
We’ve got the perfect vintage biscuit tin for you!!
Dating from the 1950s and made by A.Romary & Co Ltd from Tunbridge Wells, it’s decorated with Georgian dandies doffing their hats to the coquettish ladies riding atop their horse drawn carriage - all in their period finery.
So settle back with your chocolate digestives for the next episode of Pride & Prejudice - perhaps you could even tempt your own Mr Darcy round for tea & biscuits!
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This fabulous vintage biscuit jar featured in our recent ‘Forthcoming Attractions: mid-June’ post.
What an amazing, psychedelic landscape!
The range is called Country Lane and it was designed by Robin Cody for Crown Devon Pottery.
There’s something very homely and comforting about a nice biscuit container - especially a full one!! The smell when you open it up and the treats held within!
We’re currently using tins designed by Sanna Annuka for Marks & Spencer to store ours.
We’ve sold some lovely examples over the past couple of years - they’re always steady sellers…
…and here’s a link to all the biscuit barrels, tins, pots & jars currently in the H is for Home shop
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In our last post we talked about a pleasant little surprise we had when we opened an old tin… well it’s just happened again. We saw this lovely, vintage Christmas biscuit tin in our local Picture House Antiques today.
We’d already decided to snap it up for the tin alone. However, the price tag said that contents were included.
What a lovely surprise to find all this inside…
…everything you might need for a bit of darning…
…including tools and lovely old yarns.
Almost looking forward to getting holes in our socks!!!
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