Comments: This rare British
candy tin was produced for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897
for "Callard and Bowser". It has two pictures of the Queen,
one as a young girl in 1837 and the other as an old woman in 1897.
The background shows a map of the British Commonwealth at the time,
which was the largest empire ever known covering nearly a quarter of
the Earth's land area and including about a quarter of the world's
population.
On the 22nd September 1896 she became the longest serving British
monarch and she eventually reigned for 63 years, seven months and
two days, dying on the 22nd January 1901 at the age of 81.To view other images of this item, please click here:
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