Vintage tin "Mackintosh's Quality Street"

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Vintage tin "Mackintosh's Quality Street"

• Manufacturer: John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd, Norwich
• Date of manufacture: 1960 - 1970

Description
Beautiful vintage tin from John Mackintosh for the Quality Street fudge. The tin is equipped with a loose lid with a purple rim and the brand name Quality Street. The decoration of the tin consists of a white background with, among other things, some drawings of "Miss sweetly and Major quality", as the well-known soldier in costume and young lady in purple dress are officially called.

The original sticker is still on the side of the tin. The name 'Mackingtosh's Quality Street' is embossed at the bottom.

A beautiful example for the collector of Quality Street tins.

Condition
This tin is in a good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Dimensions

• Height: 13.5 cm
• Diameter: 10.5 cm

Mackintosh
In 1890, John Mackintosh and his wife opened a shop in Halifax, where they created a new kind of candy by mixing hard toffee with syrupy caramel. These fudge were made from cheap local ingredients such as milk, sugar beets and eggs. They were so successful that in 1898 they expanded the business to build the world's first toffee factory.
It burned down in 1909 and 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 invented Quality Street. The name was inspired by Jim Barry's play, Miss sweetly and Major quality.

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