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Tight crop on the H and H Blend Coffee round steel-cut tin line block from the 5 Dec 1924 News display ad — one-pound net weight panel with Hoffmann-Hayman slug

This crop isolates the round one-pound tin line block at the head of the December 1924 display ad: a barrel-style resealable coffee can with a clear seam at the lid edge. The wrap label centers a stacked “H and H / BLEND / COFFEE” wordmark; the band above reads “ONE POUND · NET WEIGHT”, and the band below carries “ROASTED AND PACKED BY / HOFFMANN-HAYMAN / COFFEE CO. / SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS” with “STEEL CUT” in a small footer block under the base of the tin.

For Hoffmann-Hayman brand history this is the first round-tin pack illustration in the run: the December 1924 News ad copy itself calls out “the new round tin to insure absolute freshness” in half-pound, one-pound and three-pound sizes, and this is the line block customers would have seen on the grocery page. The crop preserves the steel-cut grind callout and the top/bottom banded label layout that becomes the recognizable mid-1920s H and H pack signature.

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ONE POUND · NET WEIGHT
H and H
BLEND
COFFEE
ROASTED AND PACKED BY
HOFFMANN-HAYMAN
COFFEE CO.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
STEEL CUT

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