Vintage Louit Frères & Cie soluble cocoa powder tin, manufactured in Bordeaux and designed to hold 250 g. Its midnight blue and cream design, embellished with gold cartouches, features awards from the 1882 Bordeaux and 1900 Paris Universal Expositions, as well as its French and English inscriptions intended for export. A beautiful early 20th-century food advertising tin with a very graphic presence.
✦ Estimated era: circa 1900-1910
✦ Provenance: Bordeaux, France
✦ Dimensions: approx. 13 x 8.5 x 6 cm
✦ Material: lithographed tin
✦ Condition: wear, scratches, stains, small losses to the design, and visible oxidation, mainly on the edges and bottom
Antique Louit Frères advertising tin from Bordeaux, for cocoa powder, made of lithographed tin from the early 20th century.
