Comments: These early "One
Cent" chewing gum tins were made by "Schulman's & Co."
and date from just before "The Great War". There are two
flavours "Blood Orange" and "Violet" and they were
guaranteed "under Food and Drugs Act 1906".
"Chicle" is the natural gum collected from the Manilkara
chicle tree which grows in the American tropics. Traditionally it
was used in chewing gum, "Wrigley" was major user, but very
few companies still use it as an ingredient. The latest gums tend to
use a petrochemical based plastic instead.
Chewing gum, in various forms, has been around since at least
Ancient Greece. The modern variety first manufactured in the 1860's
when chicle was first imported from Mexico into America.
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