Box for "World's oldest tin"
Box for "World's oldest tin"
'World's oldest tin', empty roast veal tin, 1823
(e) 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.
