Hi

We are openning a grocer's shop in an open air museum in Omagh N. Ireland, the date of the shop is set at 1912 but we are using the peroid 1900-1915 to stock it. I am looking for  labels or high quality scans of labels of the peroid. I am also interested in any packaging of the peroid. My research based on advertising in local papers has shown penetration into Ireland of the following brands:

Nuggent boot polish

Paisley Flour

Eno fruit salt

Brown & Polson cornflour

Horlicks

Oxo

Borwick's baking powder

Finlay's soap

Finlay's candles

Red White and Blue coffee

Neave's baby food

Bird's custard

Yorkshire Relish

Brovil

Benger's baby food

Byrant & May matches

Epps's cocoa

Van Houten's cocoa

Lea & Perrin Sauce

Cantrell & Cochrane minerals

Orlando Jones' cream starch

Kinney's cigarettes

Golden Spangled cigarettes

Player's Navy Cut cigarettes

Waverley cigarettes

They would also be other common English and Scottish brands, including Cadburys, Frys, etc.

 

I would be grateful of any help.

Liam

Hi there, there's quite a few things you could use on the shop on here.

Best of luck and please post photos when you can

regards

Al.

Sent you a pm Liam

Thanks for the encouragement. I am looking at many items on the site. It is so hard to pin packaging down to 1900 to 1914, I think I will have to be a bit more liberal. I will start to post photos of work in progress as we get started.

Liam

PJ Carrolls tobacco products from Dundalk? Not 'Sweet Afton', that brand was introduced in 1919, 'Mick McQuaid' may have been around?

Jacobs/Boland's biscuits? 

Fry Chocs were pretty much everywhere. Seen plenty pics with Mazawattee Tea/Bovril/Wrights Coal Tar Soap/Virol (whatever that was) on enamel signs at railway stations in the 1900's.

  
I'm aware of Inglis, Hughes, McComb and Windsor Breads, the GNRI used carry branded containers for them, don't know if they go all the way back to your era.

 

Might be no bad idea to have a snoop around the Ulster Folk & Trans Museum or give them a bell.

Thanks for your helpful comments. Our museum is under the same management as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and indeed the Ulster Museum in Belfast. What I am really looking for is originals of or scans of packaging of the period, e.g. labels of boxes, labels of bottles, labels of tins or scans of packaging boxes flattened out. Of course we would pay the going rate.

Liam

DAve Lewis is yer man for that?

Thanks, Alan.

Have you any contact details for Dave?

Liam