Rare HONEYMOON COFFEE & CHICORY NEW ORLEANS 1 Lb. ADVERTISING TIN ~ CREOLE BLEND

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Rare HONEYMOON COFFEE & CHICORY NEW ORLEANS 1 Lb. ADVERTISING TIN ~ CREOLE BLEND
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F R E E   S H I P P I N G
~> THIS LOT INCLUDES -6- TINS ~ AS SHOWN
F R E E   S H I P P I N G
GREAT SELLERS AT A FLEA MARKET, ANTIQUE SHOP, COFFEE HOUSE, AND LIVE AUCTION, TYPICALLY SELLING FOR UPWARDS OF .00 EACH ~ THE GROUP EXHIBITED AS SHOWN, IN THE MANNER OF A STACKED, COUNTRY STORE DISPLAY, SERVES NICELY AS RESTAURANT OR KITCHEN DECOR ~ QUITE SUITABLE FOR REPURPOSING, WITH ANY NUMBER OF IMAGINABLE USES.
These Honeymoon brand Coffee & Chicory tins were salvaged during the 2012 renovation of the American Coffee Company in New Orleans, at the building where the firm conducted business since around the turn of the century.
The building now houses a restaurant and condominiums, and the American Coffee Company brands were sold to Reily Foods, the long-time producers of the famous Luzianne coffee and tea products.
From research, we find the Honeymoon tins were produced by American Coffee, with the anticipation of marketing this specific brand, which they did for a very short time in the 1950s, until they found the brand name was already trademarked by another firm, forcing them to cease production, leaving American Coffee with a large number of unfilled tins in their warehouse.
Our firm is pleased to have acquired the last of these rare tins, which we offer singularly through our online venues of Ebay, Etsy and others, having sold hundreds over the last year.  In addition, we are able to offer these rare collectibles, not only great examples of vintage advertising, but also utilitarian and often re-purposed for any number of decorative ideas.
EACH MEASURES 5" IN DIAMETER, STANDING 3.5" TALL, BEING A 1 POUND VACUUM PACK STYLE TIN, NEVER SEALED WITH A LID, WITH A SHARP INSIDE TOP RIM FLANGE ~ SOME PEOPLE COVER AND FOLD OVER A STRIP OF RIBBON AROUND TOP BORDER, FILL WITH FLOWERS AND USE AS TABLE SETTINGS FOR A WEDDING RECEPTION OR REHEARSAL BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON OR DINNER.
A BILLBOARD ADVERTISING STYLE LOGO IN DEEP BLUE, READS ~
HONEYMOON
BRAND
~
COFFEE AND CHICORY
~ REPEATED ON THE FRONT AND REAR.
OTHER LETTERING READS
NEW ORLEANS FAMOUS CREOLE BLEND ~ UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED ~ AMERICAN COFFEE CO., INC. ~ NEW ORLEANS, LA.
ALONG WITH
ALL PURPOSE GRIND ~ VACUUM PACKED ~ ONE POUND NET
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LETTERING.
ON THE UNDERSIDE, THE KEY OPENER IS AFFIXED AND INTACT.
THE AMERICAN COFFEE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN 1890 AND BEGAN OPERATIONS IN NEW ORLEANS AT 423 SOUTH PETERS STREET.  THEIR FIRST BRAND OFFERED WAS FRENCH MARKET COFFEE.  OVER THE YEARS AMERICAN'S BRANDS HAVE INCLUDED ST. CHARLES, HONEYMOON, FRENCH OPERA, TULANE, POINTER, FRENCH MARKET, DIXIELAND, LOYOLA, AND MONTELEONE.  AFTER ACQUIRING THE NEW ORLEANS COFFEE COMPANY IN 1934 AND MERCHANTS COFFEE IN 1950, THE COMPANY ENSURED ITS PLACE IN STORES AND FINE RESTAURANTS AROUND THE REGION.  UNTIL RECENTLY, THE COMPANY CONTINUED TO ROAST, ON LOCATION, SUCH POPULAR BRANDS AS UNION AND FRENCH MARKET COFFEE AT THEIR 800 MAGAZINE STREET LOCATION, AND PROVIDED COMMERCIAL GRADES FOR LOCAL RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES UNDER THE LABEL ALAMEDA.  COFFEE ROASTING AT THE MAGAZINE STREET LOCATION HAS CEASED, AND THE FIRM HAS NOW CLOSED THEIR DOORS, SELLING ALL THE REMAINING BRAND NAMES, WITH SOME CONTINUING TO BE OFFERED UNDER THE ORIGINAL NAME, BUT BY A NEW DISTRIBUTOR.
CONDITION REPORT
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OVERALL SUPERB, VINTAGE CONDITION, BEING A LITTLE DUSTY AND DIRTY, PERHAPS WITH SOME MINOR SPOTS OF DISCOLORATION TO THE INTERIOR, AS FOUND ~ PERHAPS TYPICAL AND MINOR ELEMENTS RELATIVE TO AGE AND MATERIAL ~ CONDITION OF ALL RATHER CONSISTENT WITH THOSE DEPICTED IN THE IMAGES OFFERED.
HISTORY of COFFEE TINS
There are many categories of coffee tins that exist: pre-1901 two color, decorated metal box variety, paper label over tin or cardboard, key or strip open types, pail, coffee bins and the tall cylindrical lithographed tin one-pound containers.
The lithographed one-pound tin was introduced on the 1880s although coffee had been packed in tin since the early 1800s. The labels on these early tins were either soldered embossed or stenciled. Pre-1901 the tins were not of uniform size. They were square, cylindrical, rectangular or box-shaped with a small pull-off or hinged lid. 1901 was the year that most of the early lithographic companies were bought out by the American Can Company. The pre-1901 tin will usually have the tin makers name on the label. There were only two colors in the lithography process, usually black with either red, green, yellow or blue, or a shade of one of these colors. By 1914, multicolored tins began to be mass produced using techniques of chromatography. Since the containers could sell the coffee the more exquisite the label the better the product would sell.
The 1920s brought about keen competition for the coffee seller and a variety of different sized containers became available. It is known that at least 350 different brands in tall, lithographed one-pound tins existed and 1,100 short key-open tins. As the hobby grows more unknown tins pop up. Paper label containers probably exist in even greater numbers. Many of the multi-colored paper labels are just as exquisitely detailed if not even more so than tin and much less expensive in todays market. The tall one pound containers have two basic types of lids: the pry-off type which is inset in the top about 1/4 inch from the edge the twist-off which fits over the top and twists down. These lids were introduced with the start of air-tight coffee containers after the turn of the century. This type of container allowed the coffee to stay fresh longer.
In the late 1920s the key-open tin was introduced and a true vacuum seal was created.  The tall one-pound tin disappeared in the art Deco Period of the early 30s and was totally replaced by the key-open tins and glass containers and in some cases paper bags. Tins are still showing up but with less and less regularity.
HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS COFFEE, CHICORY & CREOLE BLENDS
As with other tropical commodities, coffee did not become widely
available outside of wealthier domains until the establishment of slavepowered
coffee plantations in the Americas. The French established
their plantations in the West Indies during the late 1600s and early
1700s. Successfully cultivated in Martinique about 1720, coffee was
brought by the French to their new colonies. This included New
Orleans, founded only two years before. Haiti soon followed and, from
the 1730s until the slave uprising in 1791, it supplied fifty percent of
the worlds coffee and forty percent of its sugar.
After all that tea unpleasantness in Boston Harbor, and his visits to
France, Thomas Jefferson called coffee the favorite drink of the
civilized world. By 1815, the word caf was beginning to replace
coffeehouse, in large part due to the young nations acquisition of New
Orleans with the Jeffersons Louisiana Purchase. So what brought
about the New Orleans famous pairing of coffee with chicory?
Chicory grows in Europe and North America as a wild perennial plant
with blue, lavender, or some times white flowers. In the United States
and France it is known as curly endive (Chicorium endivia). Endives
are used for salad, but it is the chicory root that is used as a coffee
additive.
The chicory plant has been cited in the earliest recorded literature.
Horace touts it as a major component of his diet when he writes, Me
pascant olivae, me chicorea, me malvae (As for me, olives, endives
and mallows provide sustenance). But how New Orleanians came to
drink chicory with their coffee had much more to do with Admiral
Horatio Nelson and Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott.
Lord Nelsons dominance of the sea during the Napoleonic wars
impeded the importation of coffee into France, so chicory often
appeared as either a coffee substitute or an adulterant. The same
thing happened in the Crescent City during the Civil War. The Union
blockade of the port of New Orleans (implemented as part of General
Scotts Anaconda Plan) led to the sudden scarcity of coffee and other
commodities. So just as the French did, New Orleanians added
ground, roasted chicory root to stretch their limited stock of imported
coffee. The chicory, grown locally as a wartime measure, moved from the
realm of temporary fix due to scarcity to the embracing of the
chicory blend on a permanent basis. Its smooth texture and
comforting caramel-like flavoring helped coffee with chicory become
and continue to be a local favorite. The New Orleans City Guide
compiled by the Federal Writers Project of the WPA informs us that
Creole coffee is a mixture of pure coffee and about twenty per cent
chicory.
Coffee has always been serious business in New Orleans, being a
major port for Latin American trade. But besides the stacks of sacks
on the port docks, locals have always enjoyed this stimulating brew.
Coffee shops are not just a modern phenomenon in this Starbucks
age. Even in the decade before the Civil War, there were over 500
coffeehouses in the city.
Today, it is estimated that one-third of all coffee imported into North
America makes a stop through the port of New Orleans. Folgers
Coffee (now a division of jelly giant, the J. M. Smucker Company)
operates the worlds largest coffee roasting plant a few miles down the
Mississippi from the French Quarter. Some dozen local roasters,
including Folgers, import an average 250,000 to 300,000 tons of
coffee beans annually through the port. So important is coffee to New
Orleans, President Bush visited Folgers plant in September 2005 right
after Katrina. Folgers had sales in 2007 totaling .6 billion. Local
roasters prepare products for some twenty local and national brands.
Many like their coffee black (like the young girl in Airplane), but Caf
au lait is an immensely popular New Orleans favorite. This custom
began in Vienna when the military obtained huge quantities of beans
from the defeated Turkish army and then set up shop. Adding milk
and sugar to coffee is believed to have originated with a Polish-born
army officer named Franciszek Kulczycki, who opened the first
Viennese coffee establishment.
CafDu Monde (CDM) coffee (since 1862) is traditionally served au lait
(mixed with half coffee and half hot milk) and beignets. One can even
get mocha added there now. William B. Reilly founded the company
that produces CDM Coffee, believing New Orleans would be an ideal
place to set up a coffee roasting and grinding business. The company
that began in 1902 now produces not only coffee, but a vast array of
products.
Morning Call was the other great French Quarter coffee stand on Decatur,
where debs and dates or parents, with kids in their pajamas,
could drive up for beignets and coffee. Founded by Joseph Jurisich in
1870, it moved to Jefferson Parish in 1974.
Community Dark Roast Coffee, owned by the Saurage family, is
popular with New Orleanians, and today there are CCs throughout the
city. From 1957 to 1961, Jim Henson made lightning-fast humorous
television commercials with his muppet-like characters for Community
and other coffee companies. They were a huge success and bolstered
his career.
In 1890, French Market Coffee & Chicory was first roasted, blended
and packaged in New Orleans. A century ago, there were some
twenty-four coffee dealers in the city, including Merchants Coffee
Company. Merchants merged in 1986 into the American Coffee
Company (at 800 Magazine Street since 1941), which produces French
Market and Union Coffee. New Orleans author and food critic Tom
Fitzmorris recommends Union Coffee and Chicory as his preference.
There are so many favorite coffee brands and shops in the New
Orleans area. Phyllis Jordan opened the first PJs on Maple Street in
1978 and others followed. Theres Rue de la Course, Royal Blend,
Croissant dOr, CafBeignet, VooBrew and Nola Beans, to name just a
few.
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