Old Skool Packaging

[wispa lover]

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Roses, but not the box.
Bring back the coffee cremes.

[stuckinthe80's]

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Willy Wonka dinasour egg. I used to love these!!!! Box from 1987

[stuckinthe80's]

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Lemon space dust.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-Foreign-S...item2eab24cf95

[Heather74]

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80's

[Heather74]

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That Dolly Mixture pack looks recent!!!!! I'm sure the best before date on it is 2002!!!! Maybe im wrong though but I remember those packs from around that time.

It is in very good condition isn't it, but the date is 86


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-Bassetts-D...#ht_500wt_1182

[stuckinthe80's]

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That Dolly Mixture pack looks recent!!!!! I'm sure the best before date on it is 2002!!!! Maybe im wrong though but I remember those packs from around that time.

[Heather74]

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Dolly Mixture and Minstrels

[Heather74]

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treets

[Richard1978]

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Thanks for quoting that, I don't have a copy to hand.

[sixtyten]

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Here's the book entry..

The Museum That Described a Coin Wrongly


In October 1971 in County Durham some people made a big mistake. The South Shields Museum proudly described one of the coins on show as a Roman coin. Miss Fiona Gordon, who was 9 years old, told them something about the coin that surprised them. It was, in fact, a plastic coin that came from a business that sold sweet drinks. They gave them to people who returned bottles to the shop. When they asked her to explain, she said, ‘I knew because I saw the letter “R” on one side of the coin.’ A man from the museum said, ‘The coin looks just like a Roman coin. We thought the letter “R” meant “Roma”. In fact it was “R” for Robinsons, the business that makes the drinks.’ ‘The date is wrong by almost 2,000 years,’ Miss Gordon said helpfully.

[sixtyten]

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I read somewhere that somewhere that one of these Robinson's coins was found up at an archiological dig, assumed to be real & put on display. There someone pointed out that they were giveaways. It's mentioned in Stephen Pile's Heroic Failures.

Saw a copy of that book in a charity shop yesterday, and laughed when I read the entry about the coins

[Heather74]

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1971 Cadbury Schweppes Hartleys Jar Lids Football Stars

seven (of 12) lids that came from jars of jam in the early 1970s - probably 1971/72.

[Heather74]

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1980's Jaffa Cakes Express

[stuckinthe80's]

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WOW Huggie! I've never seen that cake before but it looks really really nice!!! I love cherry flavour things.

[Heather74]

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Cadburys Cherry Iced Gateau... 17p!!!