Packaging Collection (#7)

Navy Cut De Luxe, 1921
Players Navy Cut De Luxe tobacco counter card. In the top, oval section is a dockside scene with two naval officers in eighteenth century uniform outside a building which is probably an inn under

Navy Cut mixed brands, 1921-22
Players mixed tobacco brands counter card the top of which resembles an oriental-style pointed dome and scrolls. The background is maroon with a gold edge

Mixed tobacco brands, 1928
Players mixed tobacco brands rectangular counter card. The background is cream with a blue border and there are illustrations of Country Life Medium, Country Life White Label

Navy Cut mixed brands, 1925=26
Players Navy Cut mixed brands rectangular counter card. The background is cream with a maroon and gold border. In the centre are three blue ovals with gold borders

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1928
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes counter card in the shape of a capstan. The background is blue, with a gold edging. In the centre is a yellow panel and the picture of a sailor

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1927=28
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes rectangular counter card. The background is dark blue. Inset into the card is a pack of Navy Cut Medium cigarettes

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1926
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes rectangular, metal counter card depicting a rugby player scoring a touch-down with a pack of Navy Cut cigarettes instead of a ball

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1920=24
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes rectangular counter card. The background to the card is a blue pin-stripe with a gold edge

Navy Cut Medium Fives Cigarettes, 1927=28
Players Navy Cut Medium Fives cigarettes rectangular counter card. In the left hand corner is a pack of Navy Cut cigarettes. The text reads " Players // Fives // Please // 5 for 3d"

Players Navy Cut: Blue design, 1900=1950
Players Navy Cut counter-card in blue, featuring text and the lifebuoy trademark in the bottom left corner. Text reads: " Players // Navy // Cut // In Packets only." There is a floral

Navy Cut Tobacco, 1939=40
Players Navy Cut Medium tobacco rectangular, pull-forward counter card in two sections. The rear section depicts an estuary or similar with three sailing yachts, in the background three ships

Navy Mixture tobacco, 1927
Players Navy Mixture tobacco rectangular 3-D counter card. On the back panel is a two-masted sailing ship. On the front panel is a man wearing a soft-cap

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1926=29
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes pull-forward counter card. One side of the card opens out so that when extended it is shaped like a narrow wedge

Navy Mixture tobacco, 1906
Players Navy Mixture tobacco rectangular counter card. Top centre is the sailor inside a life buoy trade mark. In the bottom left hand corner is a pack of Navy Mixture tobacco

Navy Cut Medium Cigarettes, 1925
Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes counter card depicting a cricketer next to a pack of Navy Cut cigarettes. The base of the card is missing

Sweet jar filled with wrapped sweets

Packing garden forks for dispatch, Brades Tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966

Packing turf cutters, Everlast Garden Tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965. Artist
Packing turf cutters, Everlast Garden Tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965

A selection of Danish cheeses and a bottle of Aalborg aquavit, 1963. An advertising image taken to promote the sale of Danish products

Product shot of a Stanley Tools boxed set from 1986. Artist: Michael Walters
Product shot of a Stanley Tools boxed set from 1986

Mackintoshs Quality Street, exploding tin advertisment shot, 1972. To create the effect of the chocolates expoding from the tin

Batchelors Quick Dried Carot Strips, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
Batchelors Quick Dried Carrot Strips, 1966. A product shots of some quick dried carrot strips manufactured by the Batchelors Food Company

Cleaning products on supermarket shelves, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
Cleaning products on supermarket shelves, 1966. A close up photograph of a range of cleaning products, including some which were still available by the late 2000s

Whats in it for me?, 1965. Artist: Michael Walters
Whats in it for me?, 1965. A press advertisement photo taken in 1965, showing a child and mother deep in thought whilst looking at supermarket shelves

Pre-packed gammon steaks, Danish Bacon Company, Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Pre-packed gammon steaks, Danish Bacon Company, Yorkshire, 1964. A studio image shot to advertise the new range of pre-packed gammon steaks available from the Danish Bacon Company

Fridge assembly at the General Electric Company, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Fridge assembly at the General Electric Company, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1964. Fridges roll off the end of the production line at the General Electric Co in Swinton (South Yorkshire)

A pub landlord with a display of the Batchelors 5 day catering pack on his bar, 1968

Scotlands Soap, ca 1893. Private Collection

Starlight Savon, 1899. Artist: Meunier, Henri Georges (1873-1922)
Starlight Savon, 1899. From a private collection

Terreiro para seccar o Cafe, (Coffee Drying and Packaging), 1895. Artist: Axel Frick
Terreiro para seccar o Cafe, (Coffee Drying and Packaging), 1895. From Sao Paulo by Gustavo Koenigswald. [S. Paulo, 1895]

Barrows Stores Ltd. advert, 1910. Printed with Gittings, Hills & Boothbys Ltd inks. From The British Printer Vol. XXIII. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1910]

Les Poudres de Coty, c1923, (1923). From International Studio, March 1923. [International Studio, Inc. New York, 1923]

Advert for Brookes Monkey Brand soap, 1918. A print from the Pears Annual, of Christmas 1918

Advert for Twink dye, 1922. A print from The Sphere, 27th November 1922

Advert for Craven A cigarettes, 1936. A print from the Illustrated London News, 12th December 1936

Advert for Craven A cigarettes, 1931. A print from Punch, 21st October 1931

Advert for Sargol body shaping compound, 1921. A print from The Sketch Christmas number, 1921

Advert for Pourpre d Orient (Crimson of the Orient), perfume by Roger and Gallet, 1930. A print from The Sphere, 24th November 1930

Cartridge from Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Cartridge packed with Dynamite made at the factory. From The Illustrated London News, 16 April 1884

Workers at Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Top: Mixing house, with women rubbing Dynamite. Bottom: Woman filling cartridges with Dynamite using a filling machine

Cosmydor Savon, 1891. Artist: Cheret, Jules (1836-1932)
Cosmydor Savon, 1891. From a private collection

Selection of golf balls in their packaging, mid 20th century. Artist: Wilson Sporting Goods
Selection of golf balls in their packaging, mid 20th century

Selection of wrapped golf balls, 20th century. Artist: Hutchison Main & Company
Selection of wrapped golf balls, 20th century. Top row: Hutchison Main & Company Hawk; rubber-core floater, 1907; Dunlop Lattice; row 2: Dunlop Warwick; Colonel; Dunlop Blue Flash; row 3

Eureka golf ball box, made by the Gutta Percha Co, London, c1898

Golf Balls, c1906. Artist: AG Spalding
Golf Balls, c1906. Left: Vardon Flyer golf balls, Silvertown, London. Mesh balls manufactured exclusively for AG Spalding in 1906. Middle: The Burnet Golf Ball Box of three

Black Domino rubber-core golf balls made for the Spalding Co, 1908, with original box and guarantee slip

Perfect Colonel golf ball box, c1905 and Tommy Armour Golf Balls, c1932
Perfect Colonel golf ball box, c1905 and Tommy Armour Golf Balls, made by Worthington Ball Co, Elyna, Ohio, c1932. The US open in 1927, the PGA Open in 1930

W and D Bullet Mesh, Wright and Didson boxes of golf balls, c1900
W and D Bullet Mesh, Wright and Didson, a box for twelve balls and one for six balls and ball, c1900

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