A Clean Second Example of the H and H High Grade Three-Pound Tin
A clean second example of the H and H High Grade three-pound tin already on the shelf. The 2015 acquisition came from a San Antonio eBay seller and arrived m...
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A Second, Clean Example of the Founding H and H Coffee Keywind Tin
A second, remarkably clean example of the same H and H Coffee keywind tin that founded this collection twelve years ago. The original tin — acquired on 10 Ma...
H and H Family Size Keywind Tin with Matching Top
An H and H “Family Size” keywind tin in the collection’s brightest example of this red-blue-red tri-band design. The body reads “H AND H / FAMILY SIZE” in ou...
Early H and H Tea Tin
An early H and H Tea tin added to the collection. Tea tins are far rarer than H and H coffee tins, so every new example helps fill out the tea side of the pr...
H and H Spices Cumin, 1 Ounce
A one-ounce H&H Spices cumin packet that turned up in McAllen, TX. Another small addition to the H and H Spices line, alongside the nutmeg tin and pepper...
A Large Bulk-Size H and H Blend Coffee Tin — Same Early-1920s Slogan, Bigger Format
Two photographs of a single, very large, square-cross-section H and H Blend Coffee tin, sent in for the Reference gallery and documented on 20 May 2023. Side...
Alamy Stock Photo — H and H Blend Tins and a Border Brand “Cup & Saucer Premium” Pail on a Shelf Display
A color Alamy stock photograph — the familiar “alamy” watermark is visible across the frame — showing an antique-shelf grouping arranged against rough weathe...
Broncho Coffee Tin
We’ve been looking for this tin for 10 years! It has one of our favorite stories from the beginning and involves the TV series, American Pickers.
H and H Master Chef Two Pound Tin
This two pound Master Chef coffee tin comes from Springfield, Missouri. It is in OK shape, nice color, and included the original lid. There is some rust on t...
H and H Master Chef One-Pound Keywind Tin
A sealed one-pound H and H Master Chef keywind tin in the brand’s red-and-yellow scheme. The front carries the smiling Master Chef with his steaming cup, “RE...
H and H Blend Unopened One-Pound Paper-Label Tin
An unopened one-pound H and H Blend coffee can with its original paper label still wrapping the body. The red and navy label carries the interlocked “H AND H...
Red Bird Coffee One-Pound Keywind Tin
A rectangular one-pound keywind tin for Red Bird Coffee, branded to Reinhard Coffee & Tea Co. in San Antonio — a contemporary San Antonio roaster line ke...
H and H Sam Houston Tin
Our first one pound Sam Houston coffee tin comes from Haysville, Kansas. It is in ok shape, nice color, and included the original lid.
H and H Blend Coffee Three-Pound Paper-Label Tin
A three-pound round H and H Blend Coffee tin with its paper label still intact. The red panel with a pale-blue border calls out “MEDIUM GROUND” on a small ba...
H and H Half Pound Tin
This small tin comes from Haysville, Kansas. It is in amazing shape, great color, and included the original lid. The tin is empty but appears to be sealed. T...
H and H Brand Spices — Nutmeg Tin, 1½ oz
A small upright spice tin in the deep-navy H and H Brand Spices livery, gold-pinstripe border, three stacked label panels: a red top panel with the big cream...
Master Chef One-Pound Tin with 250 Trading Stamps Sticker
A later-era one-pound Master Chef tin in the bright red livery, photographed with its matching lid on top. The H-and-H diamond sits tight against the capital...
Aviation Brand Coffee Lid — Tucker Coffee Co.
A round screw-cap jar lid for Tucker Coffee Co.’s “Aviation” brand, in a teal-blue and red wartime-era litho that has oxidized to a heavy rust-mottled patina...
H and H High Grade — One Pound Tin With Matching Lid
A complete H AND H HIGH GRADE one-pound tin with its lid in place — same red-and-navy VACUUM PACKED layout as the March 2017 one-pound photo, but here the fu...
Texas Girl Coffee Four-Pound Pail
A four-pound Texas Girl coffee pail with a wire bail handle, in a heavily patinated cream-and-blue livery. The top of the label carries the familiar “WE ROAS...
Crystalvac Jar Lid — We Roast It / Others Praise It (Embossed Metal)
Top-down view of a Crystalvac vacuum jar lid: the stamping runs in a circle — WE ROAST IT on the top arc, Crystalvac in script at the center over VACUUM PACK...
“We Roast It — Others Praise It” — H and H Blend Embossed Lid
A small cylindrical H AND H BLEND COFFEE tin with the slogan embossed directly into the metal lid. The top arc reads We roast It, in script; the center panel...
H and H High Grade Coffee — One Pound Tin
A one-pound H AND H HIGH GRADE COFFEE cylinder in the classic red, navy, and white vacuum-packed layout: a light blue rim band reads REGULAR GRIND with FOR P...
H and H Half Pound Blend — Light Housekeepers Size (1920s Label)
A rectangular H AND H BLEND Coffee tin in the patriotic red, white, and blue layout: LIGHT HOUSEKEEPERS SIZE runs along the top edge, HALF POUND NET down the...
Simpson & Doeller Co. — H and H Blend Tin Marking
A macro shot along the lower skirt of a 1920s H and H Blend Coffee round tin: the dark navy field is framed by thin red and gold bands, and a single line of ...
Two Master Chef Pulverized One-Pound Keywind Tins
Two one-pound H and H Master Chef keywind tins arrived together, both in the Master Chef “Pulverized” grind variant with the bright red label and the winking...
H and H Coffee Family Size Tin
This 28oz H and H Coffee tin comes from Vero Beach, Florida and is the first one of its kind we’ve ever seen. It is in OK condition with nice color. It is mi...
H and H Master Chef Tin
This one pound Master Chef tin comes from Jourdanton, Texas. It is in good shape, nice color, and includes the original lid.
H and H High Grade Three Pound Tin
This tin comes from San Antonio, TX fresh from a local estate sale. It went up on eBay by one of our usual sellers.
H and H Blend Three Pound Tin
A medium ground, three pound, rectangular tin arrived from Euless, Texas. It is in rough shape but that’s okay. H and H Blend Coffee is the original brand so...
H and H Blend Round Tin
We stopped in Comfort, Texas to pick up a large Crystalvac jar Debbie and Denise, our favorite pickers, found a few weeks ago. We were telling the women at t...
Harnit & Hewitt Co. Mocha Blend Coffee (Toledo, Ohio)
This one-pound tin comes from the Harnit & Hewitt Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Older eBay copy sometimes misspelled the city as Toldeo; the firm is a separate H ...
Hoffmann’s Old Time Blended Coffee (Milwaukee)
This one-pound tin from eBay is not San Antonio H and H stock.
Master Chef Regular Grind one-pound tin
We bought this red lithographed Master Chef Regular Grind can from BellaEclectic2008 on Etsy; the seller was in San Antonio. The body came without its keywin...
H and H High Grade one-pound vacuum tin
In August 2014 we added this one-pound cylindrical can from eBay. The litho is the High Grade vacuum packed layout: a red top band with the silver H and H ma...
Wait! Spices?
On the second floor, a stave of wood is screwed to the ceiling, blocking one of the old roof-vent cutouts. It is printed Domestic Paprika; from the shape, it...
Three Tins and a Crystalvac jar, Comfort
Debbie Keneson set more stock aside for the collection on the same Comfort, Texas, circuit that handled the June 2014 hand-off in Three Rivers: a one-pound a...
Our First Item for the Collection
The first object we added to the collection is a one-pound H and H Coffee keywind tin — a cylindrical can with a red over navy face, a small coffee-spray ill...
Welcome
The Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. from San Antonio, TX was founded in 1899 and operated until 1972. They roasted H and H Blend, Master Chef, Anita, Border, Bron...