Biscuit tin
Category
Childcare objects
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Metal
Measurements
197 mm (length); 103 mm (width); 64 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662666
Summary
A tin with a lid on which is written 'Mellin's Food Biscuits for Convalescents, Aged and Dyspetic (circa 1900). Easily Digested, Highly Nutritious, Very Palatable and Sustaining'. The tin is coloured pale blue, pale pink and has a sprig of cream cherry blossom. There is also a trade mark, of a bird visiting its juvenile in a nest, enclosed within a circle.