H and H Blend Three Pound Tin

A medium ground, three pound, rectangular tin arrived from Euless, Texas. It is in rough shape but that’s okay. H and H Blend Coffee is the original brand so this could be the oldest item we have in the collection. The other H & H Blend items are round tins; one with a partial paper label.

The tin carries a paper label with H AND H BLEND COFFEE as the main panel, MEDIUM GROUND on a red banner, and ROASTED AND PACKED BY HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE CO. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS in the lower red cartouche. The side panel calls out being “…a blend of High Grade coffees” — an early product phrase shared with the large bulk-format Blend tin which carries the “We roast It / others praise It” slogan on its own front face. There are no dates on the tin but we think it is from the 1920’s based on the newspaper ads we’ve found. The example below was printed in the Hondo Anvil Herald on Sat Mar 29, 1924 — which IS where the “We roast It / Others praise It” tagline appears as a slogan; the front face of this Euless tin does not carry that line.