ANTIQUE MACKINTOSH'S QUALITY STREET TOFFEES & CHOCOLATES TIN ENGLAND 1930'S GUC

Description: This listing is for the Antique Mackintosh's Quality Street candy tin only. All other items pictured are for sale in other listings in our Ebay Store AND ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LISTING. Be sure and check them out also. This listing is for an antique Mackintosh's Quality Street Toffees & Chocolates candy tin. It is from the 1930's. It is in good condition but does show wear as most items this old will. It is a little over 3" tall including the lid and about 5" in diameter. The inside in very clean. I am sure down through the years it has had several different items stored in it. This would have been such a lovely gift for someone to have received all those years ago. Any questions just message me. Thanks for looking. In the early 1930s, only the wealthy could afford boxed chocolates made from exotic ingredients from around the world with elaborate packaging that often cost as much as the chocolates themselves. Harold Mackintosh set out to produce boxes of chocolates that could be sold at a reasonable price and would, therefore, be available to working-class families. His idea was to cover the different toffees with chocolate and present them in low-cost yet attractive boxes.Rather than having each piece separated in the box, which would require more costly packaging, Mackintosh decided to have each piece individually wrapped in coloured paper and put into a decorative tin. He also introduced new technology, the world's first twist-wrapping machine, to wrap each chocolate in a distinctive wrapper. By using a tin, instead of a cardboard box, Mackintosh ensured the chocolate aroma burst out as soon as it was opened and the different textures, colours, shapes and sizes of the sweets made opening the tin and consuming its contents a noisy, vibrant experience that the whole family could enjoy.In the later 1930s, Britain was still feeling the effects of the economic crash and Mackintosh realised that in times of economic hardship and war, people crave nostalgia. Quality Street chocolates were, therefore, packaged in brightly coloured tins featuring two characters wearing Regency era dress, known affectionately as Miss Sweetly and Major Quality, inspired by the principal characters from J.M. Barrie's play. They featured on all Quality Street boxes and tins until 2000. The original models for the pair were Tony and Iris Coles, the children of Sydney Coles who designed the advertising campaign that first appeared on a front-page newspaper advertisement in the Daily Mail on 2 May 1936.[2] Our home is smoke and pet free. U.S. shipping is free. Ships to the lower 48 states only

Price: 17.5 USD

Location: English, Indiana

End Time: 2025-01-22T10:05:19.000Z

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