Over the years we’ve accumulated a small rogues’ gallery of items that look like ours but aren’t — pieces collectors and sellers frequently confuse with the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company of San Antonio. They share a name, a monogram, or a product category, but none of them were made by this company. That is different from the Reference gallery, which indexes real H and H–related material we document but do not own; this page is only for other companies’ marks and packaging that resemble ours. The image grid order follows sequence: in _data/galleries/not_our_h_and_h/order.yml.

The lookalikes fall into a few groups:

  • Other Hoffmann firms in food and beverage — Hoffmann’s Old Time Blended Coffee and John Hoffmann & Sons were separate roasters; Hoffman Bros & Co., Ltd. of Columbus, Ohio imported tea sold in labeled tins. None of them are the Texas Hoffmanns who founded H and H.
  • Master Chef name collisions — Other sellers used Master Chef trade dress that can resemble Hoffmann-Hayman tin art; the navy-label tin and 1950-era can here are comparison references only—they are not catalogued as San Antonio Hoffmann-Hayman production.
  • Other “H and H” marks — The Harnit & Hewitt Co. of Toledo, Ohio sold coffee tins under its own H & H initials — Mocha Blend paper-label examples, lithographed Twin Blend and bulk Red Letter (Blend) tins with H & H wordmarks — and the H and H Cleaner Co. of Des Moines, Iowa used the same two letters on an unrelated household product. An aluminum-and-Bakelite coffee pot stamped “H & H” on the base turns up in online listings as H and H Coffee but is a generic housewares mark.
  • San Antonio coffee — not our firm — Reinhard Coffee & Tea Co. Red Bird lithographed tins (cardinal mark, SAN ANTONIO, TEX. on the face) are regional packaging from the same city as Hoffmann-Hayman but a different roaster — comparison context only (Red Bird tin write-up).
  • Unrelated bottles and beverages — The Pinch brand Kork-N-Seal bottle from Vinton, Virginia and the Javo bottled coffee in aqua glass get miscataloged alongside Three Rivers Glass and H and H bottles because of their shape and era. The Hoffman Beverage Co. soda labels from Newark, New Jersey (1933) share the Hoffmann surname — dropping one n — but were a soft-drink bottler, not a coffee roaster.

If you’re trying to identify a piece, compare it against our collection and reference galleries, and see the history page for background on the real Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company.

Hoffmann's Old Time Blended Coffee John Hoffmann & Sons Tins The Harnit & Hewitt Co. Toledo, Ohio Harnit & Hewitt Mocha Blend tin, Toledo, Ohio — not Hoffmann-Hayman Three vintage coffee tins on white — **center**: **Harnit & Hewitt Co., Toledo** — dark label with large yellow **H&H**, red stars, **TWIN BLEND COFFEE**, banner *Roasted and Packed by the Harnit & Hewitt Co. Toledo* — unrelated **H&H** initial collision with Hoffmann-Hayman San Antonio; **left** Fisher's Four Roses Whole Bean; **right** AM Brand — shelf comparison context only. Large cylindrical vintage coffee tin — **red** shell with white **H & H** wordmark, arched **RED LETTER** and **(BLEND)**, central roundel with star and **H**, **COFFEE** in block serif; base band *Roasted and Packed by the **Harnit & Hewitt Co. Toledo, Ohio*** — unrelated **H & H** initial collision with Hoffmann-Hayman San Antonio; friction lid with bail ears; workshop background. Two rectangular lithographed **Red Bird Coffee** tins — maroon field, arched **RED BIRD** wordmark, cardinal on a branch in an oval, **COFFEE** block type; base reads **REINHARD COFFEE & TEA CO.** / **SAN ANTONIO, TEX.** — contemporary San Antonio roaster packaging, **not** Hoffmann-Hayman H and H; taller tin left, shorter wide tin right; rust and wear. See [Red Bird one-pound tin](/red-bird-coffee-tin-one-pound/). H and H Cleaner Co. Des Moines, Iowa Aluminum/Bakelite Coffee Pot Coffee Pot Logo Stamp Pinch Brand Small Kork-N-Seal Bottle Pinch Brand Small Kork-N-Seal Bottle Bottom Javo bottled coffee — aqua glass bottle (unrelated brand) Hoffman Beverage Co. soda labels, Newark, NJ, 1933 Hoffman Bros & Co. imported tea tin, Columbus, Ohio — not Hoffmann-Hayman Master Chef coffee tin — navy-label variant (reference photograph; not Hoffmann-Hayman San Antonio) Master Chef coffee can — mid-century reference photograph (not Hoffmann-Hayman San Antonio)
Not H and H Items