H and H Blend Coffee tin crop — San Antonio Light, 14 Mar 1924
This crop isolates the rectangular one-pound tin line block that anchors the “Whole Truth About H and H Coffee” ad: a black-and-white upright key-style coffee can with a small lift ring on top, the face panel set with “H and H BLEND COFFEE” in display lettering and a smaller printer’s block beneath reading “PACKED AND ROASTED BY / HOFFMANN-HAYMAN / COFFEE CO. / SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.” Etching is coarse — the can shoulder and ring are softly outlined and the tin shows a faint side-seam.
For Hoffmann-Hayman brand history this is an important transitional pack image: it is the rectangular “key tin” silhouette (the upright opener-required can common to coffee retail before the Round Sani-Pak), shown in March 1924 — months before the project’s December 1924 ads switch to the round resealable tin. The crop documents what an H and H one-pound tin looked like at retail on the eve of that packaging changeover.
Transcription
H and H
BLEND
COFFEEPACKED AND ROASTED BY
HOFFMANN-HAYMAN
COFFEE CO.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Source
- See The whole truth about H and H coffee — San Antonio Light, 14 Mar 1924 for full context and transcription.
