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Lot 47:
Description
A stained wooden shop counter display box for J. S. Fry & Sons, featuring a hinged lid with internal and external branding. The exterior lid is printed in black with the brand name Fry’s Chocolate, surmounted by a Royal Warrant crest and the text BY APPOINTMENT. Further text reads MAKERS TO H.M. THE KING, H.M. THE QUEEN, H.M. QUEEN ALEXANDRA, and concludes with (300 Gold Medals & Diplomas). The interior of the lid is applied with a lithographed paper label featuring a decorative design with hazelnut branches, reading FRY’S NUT MILK Chocolate in stylised red and gold lettering. The front edge of the box is also printed with the brand and product name. The box contains an assortment of mid-20th-century paper ephemera, including a Wills’s Cigarette Picture-Card Album for Radio Celebrities, an empty Wills’s Cigarette Picture-Card Album, and a copy of V magazine dated October 1949.
Width: 14 inches.
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