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Rare vintage candy tin made by Mackintosh with images of various songbirds

SKU: BT-2688-20

Rare vintage candy tin made by Mackintosh with images of various songbirds. 

  • Manufacturer: John Mackintosh and sons Ltd
  • Manufacture date: 1950 - 1960

Description
Beautiful and rare collector's made tin by Mackintosh's Quality Street. One of the nicest candy tins from the Mackintosh company. This round tin drum is equipped with a separate lid.

The decoration of this candy tin consists of various images of different songbirds. The names of the birds are in English. On the lid an image of the "Blue-necked tanager".

On the bottom the text: John Mackintosh and sons Ltd. Norwich. Made in England. At the bottom, embossed: Mackintosh's Quality Street.

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

Size

  • Height: 6.5 cm.
  • Diameter: 18 cm.

The following birds can be found on the side of this tin:

Blue-necked tanager
The blue-necked tanager (Tangara cyanicollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest. The blue-necked tanager averages 12 cm in length and weighs approximately 17 g. They have a blue hood and throat. The wing coverts, wing edges, and rump are turquoise to a greenish straw color. The posterior underparts are black, violet, or blue. The juveniles are brownish gray, with a hint of adult coloration. Coloration of adults varies slightly by region. The beaks, legs, and feet are black. The diet of the blue-necked tanager consists of fruits, berries, flower blossoms and insects. Tanagers will pick insects from leaves, or sometimes in flight, but fruit is the major dietary item.

Red-headed finch
The red-headed finch (Amadina erythrocephala) (also known as the paradise finch or the red-headed weaver) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,600,000 km2. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Golden-fronted leafbird
The golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons) is a species of leafbird. It is found from the Indian subcontinent and south-western China, to south-east Asia and Sumatra.

It builds its nest in a tree, laying 2-3 eggs. This species eats insects and berries.

Violet Tanagra
The violaceous euphonia (Euphonia violacea) is a small passerine bird in the true finch family. It is a resident breeder from Trinidad, Tobago and eastern Venezuela south to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. The bird's range in northern Brazil is the lower portion of the Amazon Basin and the adjacent Tocantins River drainage, with its northwestern limits from Brazil and the Guyanas, the eastern banks of the Orinoco River drainage in central Venezuela.


Mackintosh's was a British confectionery firm that was principally known for Mackintosh's Toffee and for brands such as Quality Street and Rolo.

The firm was founded by John Mackintosh (1868-1920) and his wife, Violet (née Taylor), who bought a pastry shop in Halifax with their joint savings of £100 in 1890, the year that they married. Violet, who had been a confectioner's assistant before her marriage, ran the shop and her husband continued to work at a cotton mill. To attract customers, they decided to sell a special toffee. Violet developed a recipe which blended the traditional, brittle English butterscotch with soft, American caramel, and they sold the toffee as Mackintosh's Celebrated Toffee. The toffee's success enabled Mackintosh to expand the business beyond Halifax by 1894. Indeed, it was so successful that it "ultimately transformed popular understanding of the term 'toffee', previously a description of any sugar or boiled sweet".

Quality Street is a selection of individual tinned or boxed toffees, chocolates and sweets, first manufactured by Mackintosh's in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, in 1936. It was named after J. M. Barrie's play Quality Street.

n 1890 John Mackintosh and his wife opened a shop in Halifax, where they created a new kind of sweet by mixing hard toffee with runny caramel. These toffees were made from inexpensive local ingredients such as milk, sugar beets and eggs. They were so successful that in 1898 they expanded the operation to build the world's first toffee factory. It burned down in 1909, so John bought an old carpet factory and converted it into a new facility. When John Mackintosh died, his son Harold inherited the business and in 1936 he invented Quality Street. The name was inspired by a play of the same name by J. M. Barrie.

Quality Street chocolates were 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.


Some translations come from an automated system and may contain errors.

Country of origin
England - Great Britain

Kind of object
Candy tin

Theme
Mackintosh - songbirds - candy - sweets - storage tin

Category
Vintage tins

Color
Multicolored

Brand
Mackintosh

Material
Tin - metal

Particularities
Loose lid - Various songbirds

Era
1950 - 1960

Quality
Good vintage condition

Height
6,50 cm

Diameter
18,00 cm

Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace

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