Name/Title
Can, sample: Snowdrift Brand Coconut, 25 Pounds (actual ca. 4oz.); Franklin Baker, Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1925-1940.Entry/Object ID
2010.035.0002Description
Promotional can, ca. 4 ounces, labeled: "Snowdrift Brand Sweetened Fancy Shred Coconut, 25 Pounds." Manufactured by Franklin Baker Division of General Foods Corporation, Hoboken, N.J., no date, ca. 1925-1940. Metal can in two pieces: 3-1/2" diameter x 3-3/4" high with lift off lid (not perforated); 2 ring handles soldered to side; paper label printed in red, gold and black applied to the side, 3-1/4" square.
Code on label: 909 T726. Tin rusted; label chipped.
The tin, if it did have the food product (it does not have the air hole perforations), would have held perhaps 4 ounces, not 25 pounds as stated on the label. The label is obviously a reduced size version of the printed one as seen on objects catalog 2006.031.0026 which is a twenty-five pound can. The size suggests that it was a saleman's sample.
"Specially Prepared with Sugar, Glycerin & Salt."
Franklin Baker was the maker of Baker's Coconut.Acquisition
Accession
2010.035Source or Donor
Cillié, DanAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Dan Cillié.
.Made/Created
Date made
1925 - 1940Notes
Date: 1925-1940General Notes
Note
Display Value: Good
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2005-06-21
