Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tin can component

Easy-open ends progression, i.e. the manufacturing stages of pressing and scoring full aperture can tops and attaching pull tabs. One is blank, four are printed with Crown Cork & Seal’s ‘Easy Lift’ Trade Mark (licensed to Metal Box and later to Canaurd Metalbox), one is printed with a pet food company icon in the form of a paw print, one is printed with instructions how to use the pull tab, and the last is printed with ‘Winalot’ (the same as 2018.8/1). Part of a collection of samples of the production stages of manufacturing ‘Easy Lift’ pull-tab ‘full aperature’ tinplate can manufacture from Metal Box works, Neath, 1980s, manufactured from tinplate made at one of Ebbw Vale Works, Trostre Works, Llanelli or Velindre Works, Morriston.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2017.8/3 - 11

Creation/Production

Metal Box Company Limited
Date: 1980s

Acquisition

Donation, 19/1/2017

Measurements

diameter (mm): 82
Height (mm): 5

Material

tinplate

Location

In store
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