Golden Shred advertisement: The Family Favourite, with toy characters at a picnic – Historic Reproduction
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This historic image of Golden Shred advertisement: The Family Favourite, with toy characters at a picnic brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Golden Shred advertisement: The Family Favourite, with toy characters at a picnic
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Here the setting is a picnic rather than a kitchen or shop shelf: a set of toy characters is gathered around a spread of food, promoting Golden Shred, a marmalade sold under the Robertson's name in Scotland. Advertisers of this era often used playful, familiar figures like these to make a breakfast preserve feel like a family treat. The brand's mascot figures were later widely criticized for their caricatured depiction of Black people, so the advertisement now reads as a document of commercial taste as much as of food marketing.
| Original scan | 826 × 1,170 px |
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| Reference | 192 |
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