Item Type: Biscuit TinSummaryFull Description: One of several figural Biscuit Tins in the form of a concertina, this
model being a "Gray, Dunn & Co's Biscuits, Glasgow" Biscuit tin
that unlike the Jacobs tins, has neither straps nor reeds, but has 10
+1 raised 'bumps' on each end, in the Anglo concertina layout.. This
Gray, Dunn tin is in fair condition, with paintwork in fair
order with scratching and scuffs. Due to its compact shape, capacity for
music, and widespread popularity throughout the classes, the use of the
concertina for toys, figurines, in 'cute and comic' images and posed
photographs has continued throughout the last hundred years. One specialist
use of the concertina's iconic form has been in several varieties of biscuit
tin, as listed in section
NC.4.5
of the Collection.
[http://www.concertinamuseum.com/cmusindex2D.htm#NC405] Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 4.5-004 |
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