Victorian Art Nouveau Rare Vintage Antique Schrafft’s Candy Chocolate Tin

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Victorian Art Nouveau Rare Vintage Antique Schrafft’s Candy Chocolate Tin :
$89.00

♦ Rare Vintage Antique Schrafft’s Candy Chocolate Tin ♦

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Up for your consideration is this delightful, antique candy tin from the famous Schrafft’s Company of New York and Boston. Originally, this tin held one pound of candy. It is extremely ornate, with a gold leaf pattern around the sides and top. It measures 7 ½” wide x 3” high x 4 1/8” deep.

It is marked as follows:

TOP:

SCHRAFFT’S

ELEGANT CHOCOLATES

NEW YORK – BOSTON

USA

ONE POUND NET WEIGHT

FRONT & BACK:

SCHRAFFT’S

NEW YORK BOSTON

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~ SCHRAFFT’S ~

Schrafft\'s was a candy and chocolate company based in Sullivan Square, Charlestown, Massachusetts. The famous Schrafft\'s neon sign is a significant landmark in Boston, although the former factory it sits above, constructed in 1928, is now redeveloped for business accommodation.

Schrafft\'s was founded as a candy company by William F. Schrafft in Boston, in 1861. Frank Shattuck took over in 1898, expanding the company to include restaurants. By 1915, they had nine stores in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, and one in Syracuse, NY as well as the facility in Boston. They had grown to 22 stores in 1923, 42 stores in 1934, and 55 stores in 1968. PET milk purchased Schrafft\'s in 1967; breaking the ice cream, restaurant, and candy operations into separate companies. The Ice Cream label is the only one which currently survives, having been purchased by the LeSauvage family, owners of several ice cream labels. The New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas features a Schrafft\'s Ice Cream parlor.

The poet W.H. Auden wrote a piece entitled \"In Schrafft\'s\" This poem was later set to music by the composer Richard Wilson.

In the 1961 film \"Breakfast at Tiffany\'s,\" Audrey Hepburn is actually eating food from a Schraft\'s restaurant, as evidenced by the logo on her bag.

In 1998, Paramount released an Audrey Hepburn \"Breakfast at Tiffany\'s\" doll that includes a Schraft\'s bakery bag and coffee cup among its accessories.

In the 1958 comedy \"Auntie Mame,\" Mame\'s nephew becomes engaged to an air-headed girl who thinks it is just hilarious that \"Patrick spoke French to a counterman at Schrafft\'s, can you imagine?\"

In Don DeLillo\'s novel \"Underworld\", the radio commentator is told that at Schrafft\'s they\'re even breaking into the Muzak to get the latest score on the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. New York Giants 1951 baseball game.

In the classic \"ice cream scene\" in the 1980 film Kramer vs. Kramer, where Dustin Hoffman\'s character\'s son defies his father at the dinner table by eating his dessert (chocolate chip ice cream) before/instead of his main dish, the ice cream he dips into is the Schrafft\'s brand.

Comedian George Carlin once speculated during a routine that the birth control pill would eventually become an impulse buy and would thus be placed at grocery checkout counters \"next to the Schrafft\'s two-cent mints.\"

In the 1966 film \"The 15 Year Old Girl\" produced and directed by Andy Warhol, the second husband of the main character, actress Hedy Lamarr, testifies to the judge that he met her at a Schrafft\'s restaurant.

The tin is in very good condition for its age, without any dents, but some of the paint has been scratched off on the top, front, and back. This is to be expected of most any antique.

It will make a wonderful addition to your antique tin collection, or useful for holding and storing most anything. Of course, it will make a great conversation piece as well.

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