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Vintage biscuit tin with a world map embossed on the lid

SKU: BT-3291-21

Vintage biscuit tin with a world map embossed on the lid.

  • Manufacturer: unknown
  • Manufacturing date: 1950s - 1960s

Description
Beautifully designed round vintage cookie or biscuit tin with a loose spherical lid. The lid is decorated with an embossed world map and supplemented with various drawings that say something about the relevant place on the map. Earth surface embossed in gold with blue oceans.

The tin itself is decorated on the side with various drawings in a rectangular frame with scenes from various populations from all over the world from different continents.

Images from Japan, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, America, China, Scandinavia.

Gold-coloured tin drum with blue ocean and details in black.

Condition
This round cookie or biscuit tin is in a neat vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

  • Height: 8 cm.
  • Diameter: 23 cm.

World map
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps form a distinctive category of maps due to the problem of projection. Maps by necessity distort the presentation of the earth's surface. These distortions reach extremes in a world map. The many ways of projecting the earth reflect diverse technical and aesthetic goals for world maps.

World maps are also distinct for the global knowledge required to construct them. A meaningful map of the world could not be constructed before the European Renaissance because less than half of the earth's coastlines, let alone its interior regions, were known to any culture. New knowledge of the Earth's surface has been accumulating ever since and continues to this day.

Maps of the world generally focus either on political features or on physical features. Political maps emphasize territorial boundaries and human settlement. Physical maps show geographic features such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures. Choropleth maps use color hue and intensity to contrast differences between regions, such as demographic or economic statistics.


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Country of origin
Unknown

Kind of object
Cookie tin - biscuit tin

Theme
Cookies - biscuits - packaging - drawings

Decoration
World map - continents - populations

Category
Vintage tins

Color
Gold - black - blue

Manufacturer
...

Brand
Unknown

Material
Tin - metal - paint

Particularities
Loose lid on which an embossed world map

Era
1950s - 1960s

Quality
Good vintage condition with traces of use

Height
8,00 cm

Diameter
23,00 cm

Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace

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