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Posted 3 years ago
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I found and showed one of these recently -- it is the 2 pound size, seen here:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/303471-old-whitmans-salmagundi-tin-candy-box-w
And now I found another one -- this is the one pound size, as actually described in the article I linked to in the other showing. I neglected then to realize the measurements given didn't match it <groan> but they DO match this one... <groan><lol>
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Very nice !
Whitman’s has been around for a long time.
Part of the design is of the well known painting Zodiac by Alphonse Marie Mucha from 1896.
mp.kunst, Yes, indeed. : -)
On another post of one of these Whitman Salmagundi boxes, I opined as to which of the variant zodiac paintings I thought looked the closest:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/293208-whitman-candy-salmagundi-box
http://www.muchafoundation.org/en/gallery/browse-works/object/242
Ugh. I feel quazy now, because I can't refind the link for all of the very similar images where various things are tweaked like the woman's hair color and her headress.
Here are a few:
https://www.alfonsmucha.org/Savonnerie-De-Bagnolet.html
https://www.alfonsmucha.org/Byzantine-Head-The-Blonde.-1897.html
https://www.alfonsmucha.org/Byzantine-Head-The-Brunette.-1897.html
I had to get my train of thought back. When I first started researching the image on the Salgamundi tin, I didn't know that the closest one was Mucha's Zodiac painting, so I was looking at a lot of Mucha's works, like this one:
https://www.alphonsemucha.org/feather/
Beautiful candy tin!!