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Sold for: £24
A collection of assorted metal stationery and artist tins featuring various promotional and professional branding. The group includes two rectangular orange tins decorated with orange fruit slices, each bearing the printed white text Chewits. A silver-tone rectangular tin is printed with Jammie Wagon Wheels and depicts a stagecoach illustration. A red vertical tin features a yellow character and a green pencil, with a white price label reading 75p. The assortment includes a pink tin featuring Tommy, Angelica, and Chuckie with the text Rugrats and Ah, keep your diaper on!, and two yellow and white tins printed with Koby Koby and the copyright text ©1997 Hahn shin corporation All Rights Reserved THE LOVING FRIEND COMPANY. Professional artist materials include a large blue tin marked CARAN d’ACHE SWISS MADE and 0288.418, a large landscape tin marked DERWENT Cumberland tradition since 1832 ARTISTS SET, and two slim black Derwent tins, one featuring an illustration of elephants and the other marked 12 WOODCASED PASTEL PENCILS. The lot also contains a blue tin depicting an orca, a black and gold diamond-patterned pencil box containing a Royal Sovereign ruler, and a brown zippered pencil case. This lot comprises the tins and cases only.
Condition report:
The tins exhibit varying degrees of shelf wear, including minor surface scratches and small paint chips to the edges and corners (photo 1). Several tins bear remnants of adhesive retail price stickers (photo 1). The brown leather-effect pencil case shows minor surface scuffing (photo 2). The interiors of the professional artist tins have not been fully inspected, and completeness of contents is not verified.
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