1921
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Slam
Bar
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A chocolate
bar.
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Courtesy
Tom
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Crispy
Fingers
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A wafer type
biscuit similar to Kit-Kat
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1922/3
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Milk
Chocolate
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Sold by the Tea
Agents Department through its Confectionery Van
Sales. The van sales were taken over by Maison
Lyons Chocolate Sales Department in 1926 which sold
to the trade the higher-priced confectionery as
sold in the Corner Houses. Carried by salesmen in
wooden boxes to the normal tea and coffee
retailers. Each box held six dozen unwrapped bars.
The cost to the shop was 2/- per box and his return
was 3/- profit (50%)
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Chocolate
Creams
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Wrapped cream bar.
Price 1d and 2d each. Peppermint, Raspberry, Coffee
and Lemon also Standard (whatever that was).
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Courtesy Alan &
Pauline Monk
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Jakko
Bars
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Milk chocolate and
roasted peanuts. Price 1d each. Not a very popular
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1926
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Lyons 'Nippy'
Chocolates
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Priced at 1/- per
box.
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1935
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Buzz
Bars
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Originally
manufactured and sold by the Bakery Department as a
biscuit line they were sold by tea salesmen from
about 1935. Their sales peaked in 1935 when
pictures of the King & Queen appeared on
them.
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1938
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The following
chocolates and confectionery were available in
1938
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Crest Assortment
(De Luxe Box).
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1 lb to 3 lb
boxes.
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Four Seasons
Assortment.
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1 lb and 2 lb
boxes.
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Maison Lyons
Tapestry Selection
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1 lb to 3 lb boxes.
Hard & soft centres.
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Maison Lyons
Request Assortment.
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Ribboned box
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Kensington.
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Dickens
Assortment.
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1 lb
cartons.
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Maison Lyons
Standard Assortment
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2 lb box.
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Bouton
d'Or.
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2 lb box.
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Lyons Golden
Brown.
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4 lb boxes.
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Fruit & Nut
Chocolate, Plain.
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2 oz and 4 oz
slabs.
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Fruit & Nut
Chocolate, Milk.
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2 oz and 4 oz
slabs.
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Milk
Chocolate.
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2, 4, 6, and 8 oz
slabs.
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Nut Milk
Chocolate.
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4 oz and 8 oz
slabs.
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Plain
Chocolate.
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2, 4, 6, and 8 oz
slabs.
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Walnut &
Fruit Milk
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Chocolate. 2d
block
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Toffee Nut Milk
Chocolate.
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2d block
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Brazil Nut
Milk.
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2d block
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Coffee Milk
Chocolate.
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2d block
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American
Candies.
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1 lb cartons and 4
lb box.
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Crème de
Menthe.
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1/2lb
tin and 4 lb box.
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Courtesy Nick
Doolan
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Lyons
Confectionery.
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1/2lb, 1 lb and 2
lb cartons and 2 lb box.
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Sugared
Almonds
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4 lb box.
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Turkish
Delight.
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1 lb, 2 lb and 4 lb
decorated Tin.
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Evening
Assortment.
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4 lb Box
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Extra Strong
Mints.
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4 lb Box
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Mallow
Delight.
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4 lb box
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Orange &
Lemon Slices.
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4 lb Box
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Peppermint
Creams
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4 lb Box.
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Royal Gums.
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4 lb Box.
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Fudge
Assorted.
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4 lb Box.
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Popular
Confectionery.
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Two box types _1/2
lb carton to 1 lb box.
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Assorted
Chocolate Cream Bar.
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Price 1d &
2d.
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Chocolate Nut
Loaves
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2d.
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Dessert Almond
Bar.
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2d.
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Fig
Sandwich
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2d.
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Wholenut Bar.
(Milk)
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2d.
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O-ke-Doke.
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2d.
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Hu-Ha.
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1d.
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Milk Chocolate
Bar.
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Wine Gums.
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Winter
Gums.
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Safety
Bar.
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1d.
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Tins at 3d, 6d, and
1/-.
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Barley
Sugar.
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Boiled Sweet
Truffles.
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Not in 3d.
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Brazil Nut
Assortment.
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6d tin only.
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Brazil
Truffles.
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Not in 3d.
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Buttermint
Fancies.
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Butternut
Crunch.
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Not in 3d.
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Cornish Pats.
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6d tin only.
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Creamy
Butterscotch.
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Not in 3d.
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Devon Butter
Cream Assortment.
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Not in 3d.
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Everton
Assortment.
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Florida
Fruits.
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Fruit
Drops.
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Mint
Selection.
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Old English
Butter Drops.
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Old Scottish
Butter Humbugs.
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Old Time
Favourites.
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Pineapple
Crush.
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Scottish
Favourites.
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Lyons
Toffieskotch.
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Only in 3d.
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Somerset
Mixture.
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6d tin only
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Welsh Mixture.
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6d tin only.
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Liquorice
Allsorts (Cartons).
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3d only.
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Flat Tins all at
1/- except where otherwise listed.
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All Favourite
Assortment.
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American
Toffee.
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Assorted Butter
Nuts.
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Barley
Sugar.
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Bold Sweet
Chocolate Truffles.
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Butter
Dainties
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Continental
Assortment.
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Fruit
Dessert.
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Highland
Assortment.
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Jellied Fruit
& Nut Varieties.
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Mint Bars
(Wrapped).
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Nutty
Hardbake.
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1938 Selection. 6d
tin only.
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County
Mixture.
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6d tin only.
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Flask Bottles at 6d
and 1/-
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Acid
Tablets
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Barley
Sugar.
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6d flask
only.
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Bullseyes.
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Butter
Mixture.
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Butterscotch.
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6d flask
only.
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Fruit
Tablets.
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1/- flask
only.
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De Luxe Fruits.
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1/- flask
only.
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Cough
Lozenges.
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6d flask
only.
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Fruit
Drops.
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6d flask
only.
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Humbugs.
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6d Flask
only.
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Lime
Tablets.
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6d flask
only.
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Biscuit
Lines
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Lyons
Buzz.
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Price 1d
each.
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Lyons Choc Wafer
Biscuits.
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Price _1/2d and 1d
each.
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6d Confectionery
Cartons
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Crystallised
Peppermint Creams.
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Fruit
Bon-Bons.
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Liquorice
Allsorts.
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Royal
Gums.
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Sugared
Almonds.
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6d
Cellophanes
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Dessert Fruit
Pastiles.
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Jelly
Fruits.
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Liquorice
Allsorts.
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Peppermint
Creams.
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Royal
Gums.
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Sugared
Almonds.
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Boiled Sweets
Maison Lyons at 2/- per lb.
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Almond
Rock
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Buttered
Almonds
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Buttered
Brazils
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Buttered
Walnuts
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Buttered
Nuts
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Boiled Sweets
Maison Lyons at 1/4 per lb
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Acid
Tablets
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Assorted
Eclairs
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Barley
Varieties
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Brazil
Caramels
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Buttered
Dates
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Buttered Hazel
Caramels
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Buttered
Liquorice
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Butterscotch
Squares
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Buttered Walnut
Caramels
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Chocolate
Eclairs
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Double Centre
Truffles
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Fruit
Dessert
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Fruit
Drops
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Ginger
Butters
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Golden Barley
Sugar
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Herbal Cough
Tablets
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Mint
Bars
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Pola
Mints
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Wild Cherry
& Menthol Bricks
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Miscellaneous
Selection
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Chocolate
Longies.
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Price 1/- and 2/-
per quarter dozen.
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Brazil Milk
Chocolate.
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Price 1/4d
lb.
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Treacle Toffee.
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Price 1/- per
lb.
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Crystallised
Ginger.
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2/3 per lb and 8/-
per 4 lb.
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Marzipan
Dessert.
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Price 8/- per 4
lb.
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Party Drum.
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Price 6/6 per 2 lb
and 3/6 per 1 lb.
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Assorted
Marzipan
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Price 6/- per 2
lb.
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Maison Lyons
Confectionery.
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Price 5/- per 2
lb.
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Confectionery de
Luxe.
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Price 3/6d per 1
lb.
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Chocolate
Ginger.
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Price 3/- per 1
lb.
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American Candied
(Drum).
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Price 3/-.
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Family
Favourites.
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Price 3/- per 2
lb.
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Crystallised
Dessert.
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Price 2/6 per 1
lb.
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Marzipan
Dessert.
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2/6 per 1 lb
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Fruit & Nut
Assortment.
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Price 2/3 per 2
lb.
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Treacle Toffee
(tin).
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Price 2/3 per 2
lb.
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Buttered
Brazils.
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Price 2/3 per 1
lb
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Chocolate
Biscuits (fancy tin).
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Price 2/3.
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1950s/60s
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Candied Ginger
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Candied Ginger. Exported to
USA & Canada. Supplied in 3 oz or 8 oz cartons.
Postcard design by Jim Nash. |

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1950s/60s
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Buttermints
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Buttermints, Whiteline Mints (Bulls Eyes), Goldline Candies. Exported to USA & Canada. 10c per packet.
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1947 Jul
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Mint
Chocs
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Mint Chocs first
produced at Greenford. Green and white stripped
half pound carton with chocolates stacked in two
vertical columns of 12 with window front. Packed by
hand.
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1952
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Bullseyes
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Were being made in
1952. No details available.
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American
Candy
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This was being made
in 1952. No details known. American exports
individually wrapped in cellophane but exports to
West Africa, where they were extremely popular,
they were wrapped in foil. This was better
protection against humidity but also the market
here tended to buy the sweets in one's and two's as
a special treat.
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Truffles
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Were being made in
1952. No details known other than made from a
butterscotch mixture, filled with a nut cream
centre and rolled in cocoa powder. Made by American
Candy Department.
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Late 1950s
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Double
Hit
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Caramel &
Turkish delight covered in milk chocolate.
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