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!
Marks and Spencer are selling these Christmas biscuit selections…
…with gorgeous tins designed by Sanna Annuka.
Future classics with their vintage Scandinavian folk art feel.
She was responsible for this Swiss biscuit tin last Christmas - it’s currently changing hands for £15-£20… without the biscuits!
We’ve bought ours early this year - they’re sure to be popular again.
We’ll be giving a few tins as presents - but some will have to go under our own tree!!
They’ve also got a butter shortbread tin with a sweet little Scottie dog on the front.
We recently posted a blog featuring illustrations by Miroslav Sasek - we don’t know who designed this tin - but it also has a vintage feel is very reminiscent of his work.
Here are the actual illustrations from the book…
…published in 1961.
It’s not only going to be a tin-tastic Christmas in our house - looks like it’s going to be biscuit-tastic too!
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!!!
We often find these small tobacco tins in the mixed boxes we buy at auction. Usually they’re full of nails, pins, screws or tap washers. But this one contained a more colourful surprise…
…lots of old sugar lumps!
They look to date from the 1960s - someone had obviously started a little collection - quite rare survivors probably.
Some of them have lovely period graphics… very sweet!! ☺
We think this is a future classic… having said that, it probably already is!
This biscuit tin was sold through Marks & Spencer only this Christmas gone. They’re already being resold for £15-£20 (without the Swiss biscuits!).
It’s a special commemorative tin celebrating 125 years of Marks & Spencer. It was designed by Sanna Annukka. She’s half English and half Finnish - and the illustration has a real vintage Scandinavian feel.
It reminds us of this original 1960s travel poster we had framed to display in our antiques centre pitch.
Not only the general style, but also the landscapes and even the colours.
The poster entitled Carefree by Coach is signed by ‘Bigg’. We have to confess, we’ve not been able to find out anything about him or her… but it’s a fantastic illustration.
We might have been tempted to pack a flask & sandwiches… and hop on board for our ‘carefree’ trip through the countryside!
…tins…
…books…
…and furniture such as desks, chairs and blackboards.
