Отгадка Отгадка на вчерашнюю загадку про коробочки.Увы. Правильного ответа не было. :( Пара человек подобрались близко к нему, но все таки это не совсем то. (Комменты я открыла)
В этих замечательных жестяных банках продавалось печенье. Все, что представленно на фото - это biscuit tins. Кстати, на последнем фото была прямая подсказка :)
Вот этикетка, которая была на коробочке 2 (с барышнями)

О biscuit tins:
The need for biscuit tins, since the mid-1800s, was great, as biscuits were a staple of the British diet. And the tins had a purpose: to keep cookies fresh; the cookies were stored in a box within the tin. By 1900, the leading English biscuit manufacturer, Huntley & Palmers, offered 450 types of biscuits, with varieties named for famous people and places: Garibaldi, Osborne (one of Queen Victoria's homes), and Prince Albert.
The English have always loved their cakes and cookies. And, lately, it seems, the taste for the old biscuit tins has become equally strong among both English and American collectors. "From the late 1860s through the mid-1930s in England, novelty tins were made for the middle-class market and were sold in shops during the Christmas season," says David Huxtable, owner of huxtins.com, an online resource for biscuit tins (очень рекомендую посмотреть). "English companies — including Huntley & Palmers; Carr; McVitie & Price; Barringer, Wallis & Manners — learned early on that the more attractive they could make these tins, the more they could sell." Unknown studio artisans designed decorative containers in highly imaginative shapes — as handbags, toys, globes, vases, furniture, books — that appealed to all ages, and collectors today can find such examples at fine antiques shows and on the Internet.
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