It did occur to me that maybe I could find some way of combining art – sketching with my recent interest in Mary tins and their replicas (if you missed this the best way for you to catch up would be to read the page from my links section).
So this is my sketch based on a photograph showing a
corporal on the Western Front opening his tin at Christmas in 1914. We can only
imagine how the recipients must have felt when receiving their gift. The fact
that so many of these tins still exist suggests that they must have been
treasured by a lot of the recipients and continued to be so long after the
tobacco and cigarettes had been smoked or the sweets had been consumed.
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