Carton box for "World's oldest tin"
Carton box for "World's oldest tin".
- Materials:
- cardboard
- Object Number:
- 1965-239/5/1
- type:
- box:container
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'World's oldest tin', empty roast veal tin, 1823
World's oldest tin, empty - Arctic North West Passage Voyage, William Edward Parry, 1823 (Roast Veal).
Details
- Category:
- Industrial Chemistry
- Object Number:
- 1965-239/5
- Materials:
- steel (metal) and tin plated
- Measurements:
-
overall: 180 mm 180 mm, .62kg
- type:
- food tin
- credit:
- British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association.
Parts
"World's oldest tin"; empty roast veal tin, 1823
Empty food can, formerly described as the "World's oldest tin", believed to have contained roast veal and made by the company Donkin, Hall and Gamble in 1823, for the 1824 Arctic expedition in search of the North West Passage led by William Parry.
- Measurements:
-
overall: 140 mm x 180 mm x 180 mm,
- Object Number:
- 1965-239/5/2
- type:
- food tin
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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