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H and H Master Chef Two Pound Tin

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A large two-pound cylindrical keywind tin in bright red, carrying the redesigned mid-century Master Chef label: the angled yellow-and-black “H AND H” tag tuc...

H and H Master Chef One-Pound Keywind Tin

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A sealed one-pound H and H Master Chef keywind tin in the brand’s red-and-yellow scheme. The front carries the smiling Master Chef with his steaming cup, “RE...

Master Chef Price Cards — Houston, 1950s

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Five identical red cardstock price cards fanned on OSB: each has a FOLD BACK HERE rule at the top, a white Special Today! script panel with a large ¢ for cha...

H and H Master Chef Handi-Handle Sample Cup

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A Master Chef four-ounce paper sample cup arrived from Minden, Nevada, in a mixed eBay lot of grocery promos. The front keeps the classic Hoffmann-Hayman pal...

Visiting Mi Tierra Café for the Holidays

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Pedro Cortez bought the Toyo Café in Market Square in 1941 and renamed it “Mi Tierra” (“My Land”). Since then, the Cortez family has operated a number of res...

Interesting H and H Master Chef Sighting

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We picked up the August/September - Issue No. 18 of Edible San Antonio. They published an article about La Familia Cortez Restaurants celebrating 75 years in...

Two Master Chef Pulverized One-Pound Keywind Tins

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Two one-pound H and H Master Chef keywind tins arrived together, both in the Master Chef “Pulverized” grind variant with the bright red label and the winking...

H and H Master Chef Tin

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This one pound Master Chef tin comes from Jourdanton, Texas. It is in good shape, nice color, and includes the original lid.

H and H Price Sign

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eBay delivered another H and H Master Chef artifact. This time we have a price sign that was never marked or even folded and waiting for us in New Braunfels,...

Mi Tierra Café & Master Chef

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The San Antonio Express-News printed an article about Mi Tierra on May 7th, 2015 which included a photo of the front of the café with a large H and H Master ...

Master Chef Regular Grind one-pound tin

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We bought this red lithographed Master Chef Regular Grind can from BellaEclectic2008 on Etsy; the seller was in San Antonio. The body came without its keywin...

Master Chef “We Serve” hand-painted sign

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Debbie Keneson turned up a large hand-painted Master Chef board: a thin plywood panel, roughly 4 by 8 feet, with a red field and white Master Chef serif lett...

Three Tins and a Crystalvac jar, Comfort

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Debbie Keneson set more stock aside for the collection on the same Comfort, Texas, circuit that handled the June 2014 hand-off in Three Rivers: a one-pound a...