Early Packaging from the 1900's to the 1960's was mainly made from cardboard, glass or tin, depending on the ingredients that were going to be placed in the packaging. Manufacturers of spices and cocoas, would prefer to use cardboard, and tin for the lid and base. Glass was mainly used for wet ingredients like colouring and syrups. New Kitchen gadgets and hand utensils, most of the time would usually be found packaged in cardboard.

For more Industrial types of packaging like Polish or Cleaners, manufacturers would prefer to use tins. Products that were usually more corrosive or made from a wetter substance, glass was a the material of choice. Coloured glass was also commonly used for most liquid poisons.

Manufactures of Industrial dry products would sometimes use cardboard or timber for their bulk packaging, but this doesn't often survive to become collectable.

PROP HIRE ENQUIRIES

KITCHEN PACKAGING

Cadbury Bournville
​Cocoa

Paper labelled Cadbury Bournville Cocoa

Plain tins Cadbury Bournville Cocoa

Bushells Tea Canister Australian Theme

Spices and Flavours

Keen's Mustard, John Bull Ground Ginger, Cornwells Malt Extract, Rawleighs Cloves

Lollies & Biscuits

Fruit Bonbons and Royal tin by Pascall.
Tartan tin by Arnott's Biscuits

DR Blumers Flavouring Extract 

Outside packaging was cardboard, inside packaging would have been a glass bottle

Davis Gelatine

Tin and cardboard packaging used in commercial and residential quantities
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Neaves Food
Infant & Invalids Food

Sturt Brand
​Custard Powder

Health Salts &
​Antacid

Bickford's Salvital Health Salts and
Dr Witt's Antacid Powder

OVO Egg Preservative

GLASS PACKAGING

Egg and Milk Toffee,
Vegemite

J.R WATKINS
Yellow Colour Mixture

UTENSIL PACKAGING

Pie Crimper, Trimmer & Decorator

'Nutbrown'
Cream Horn Cases

H.J Heinz
Recipes Tin Box

Depression Era
​Herb Tin Box

BATHROOM PACKAGING

Johnson's
Baby Powder

Powders

Cashmere Bouquet & Bibbings IDL Ideal Tooth Powder

Ladies Toilet Clipper
The "Swift"

SEWING & STATIONARY PACKAGING

Sewing Accessories

Ongard Rustles's Safety Pins, "Handy" Darning Silk, "Marlborough" Whalebone Collar Supports, in cardboard box's

Taylor's
Sight Testing Opticians

Cardboard Box with Metal joining clasps and Leather Optical case that is felt lined

Bear Tape
Cellulose Tape

MATCHES & TOBACCO PACKAGING

Redhead & Federal Matches

Fine Timber Match box's raped in paper packaging

Bell's Waterproof
Wax Vestas

Tobacco Tins

Real A.l.Pedro (Timber Box), Log Cabin, Golden Eagle and Dr. Pat Irish Mixturl pipe Tobacco are packaged in tin

CLEANING PACKAGING

Household
Wundaway Polish

Industrial
Cardinal Polish

Metal Polish
Sunshine

INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING

Industrial Products

Polyfilla Cellulose Filler (Cardboard Box), Neva Slyp Belt Dressing, Enamil Paint, Watkins Fly Spray and Evergrip Cement are packaged in tin

Taubmans
Lacquer Thinners