Food Storage Box

Object/Artifact

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Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Food Storage Box

Entry/Object ID

2003.017.002 a-b

Description

Shallow, circular, lidded metal container, used to store and ship shortbread. Base printed with tartan (red, black, white, yellow, green on blue ground), as well as "J.M. & M. Henderson Ltd.", " 'Capital'/ Shortbread", "Bonnyrigg. Midlothian", "Ingredients: Flour. Butter. Sugar. Eggs" and "Nett (sic) Weight 1 lb.". Lid printed with frame of same tartan, with central area a painting of two young women in Scottish dancing dress, dancing, against background of water and mountains and foreground of heather. Title reads: "Recommended Dancing Dress/ Aboyne Highland Games, 1952." Below picture is label reading: "Scottish 'Petticoat Tail'/ Shortbread/ Made in (three thistle heads) Scotland" The tin measures 3.6 cm. deep and its lid has a 1.5 cm. rim.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Wunderlich, Karin

Notes

Accession Date: 27-Sep-03 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Cabinet, Food Storage

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Food Storage Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Food Processing & Preparation T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

food storage box

Created By

Falk me.

Create Date

November 16, 2022

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

October 23, 2025