Master Chef Is Still on the Shelf — and Continental’s Fingerprints Are on the Can
A $9.89 supermarket coffee can turns out to carry the far end of the H&H Master Chef line: a wordmark registered by the company that bought Hoffmann-Haym...
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Hoffman Bros & Co., Columbus, Ohio — the namesake that imported
A cream lithographed coffee canister from a Columbus importing house one letter away from our name — and the second Hoffman Bros. object in the collection.
The Tin Can Book — Hyla M. Clark: The Can as Collectible Art, Advertising Art & High Art
A collector’s reference on lithographed tin containers — the design and advertising context for the H&H coffee tin collection.
The Canning Clan — Earl Chapin May, 1937: A History of the American Canning Industry Published the Year H&H Went Vacuum-Can
Earl Chapin May’s 1937 Macmillan history of the American canning industry, published the same year H&H installed its vacuum-can closing machine and the T...
Old Plantation Steel Cut Coffee — A Second Simpson & Doeller Tin Enters the Reference Set
Baltimore Merchants Coffee Co. one-pound ‘Old Plantation’ tin with the THE SIMPSON & DOELLER CO BALTO MD maker’s mark — comparandum widening the evidence...
A Two-Pound Master Chef Pair Bracketing Two Label Generations
Two-tin lot of 2 LBS NET Master Chef keywind cans — and a small surprise once tin #2 was photographed: the lot brackets two consecutive Master Chef label gen...
Joy-Cup Brand Coffee slip-lid tin
Baltimore-area Joy-Cup one-pound slip-lid tin—Simpson & Doeller’s city—with a Sam Houston–like portrait roundel layout; in-hand photo, eBay WebP set, and...
H and H Half Pound Blend — Light Housekeepers Size (1920s Label)
Second of two Light Housekeepers half-pound tins—this one bought from Wolf Henning von Kameke in Germany in March 2017 with its lid (the eBay specimen is lid...
H and H Blend Round Tin
Round H and H Blend coffee tin from Comfort, Texas—paper label gone, embossed lid; bought in person at Stuff & More.
