Vintage blue English tin canister by Sellotape

Vintage blue English tin canister by Sellotape. 

• Manufacturer: Adhesive tapes ltd
• Date of manufacture: 1980s

Description
Round blue tin canister for Sellotape adhesive tape equipped with a separate lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a blue background. Over a white circle in a diagonal black band the brand name "Sellotape". Same front and back. A flanged longitudinal seam runs vertically along the side of the can.

Text: "Cellulose self adhesive tape".

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 16.6 cm.
• Diameter: 13 cm.

Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, polypropylene-based, pressure-sensitive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending.

The term has become a genericized trademark in Britain and a number of other countries where it is sold. The term is also used much in the same way that Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada and the United States in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.

The name Sellotape was derived from cellophane, at that time a trademarked name, with the "C" changed to "S" so that the new name could be trademarked.

The tape was originally manufactured in 1937 by Colin Kinninmonth and George Grey, in Acton, West London. From the 1960s to 1980s, the Sellotape company was part of Dickinson Robinson Group, a British packaging, and paper conglomerate. In the 1960s a small group of chemists (based in Wallington), led by a man named Alan Robinson, undertook a development of the stickiness in this product.

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