Thursday, May 26, 2011

Two tincans

I've recently come over two really nice tincans, one that used to preserve chocolate and (I think) the other one was used for hard candy.

The first one is a Anthon berg chocolate tin box that looked old to begin with, but when you turned it over you saw a very modern "ingredients" sticker. But the vintage look of the box got me

Anyway, here's the box (you can always click the images for a closer view!):



Isnt it gorgeous?

The other one is all in french:


















With the help of Google Translate (My trusty companion), the text at the top says: "Anise of Flavigny Abbey" and the black text at the bottom of the box says "True mark of Anise", but I do think that even Google Translate makes mistakes (THE HORROR!) when it comes to grammar.

And at the bottom of the top lid was a what I first thought to be a pink sticker a kid or something had once put there, because you could not see what it was supposed to be, so I rubbed it gently with my fingers under running water and then filled it with hot water so maybe the sticker would be easier to remove, but then I saw that there were TEXT on it! Plot twist! So I took a photo of it and flipped the image in photoshop (because it seemed like the text was mirrored)


"Anise of Flavigny Abbey, single real/only true mark/brand. Anise scent natural / Natural anise scent."

Edit:
They are now renting space to my stamps :)

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