Earlier this month I showed you my 1920's deco style Vantine's incense burner HERE! --and now today I stumbled upon a Vantine's Temple Incense tin which once contained a fragrant powder made by the same company! I love finding super cool things that connect directly to something else wonderfully rad that I have. The tin itself is in good condition, with only a few minor bumps 'n bruises, and is covered in the colorfully evocative, mystical imagery associated with the popularity of Eastern culture of the era. And man, if you want to see something else super amazing, check out an early A. A. Vantine and Co. Inc., catalog from 1914 by CLICKING HERE!
6 comments:
A great compliment to your burner. I find these vintage products absolutely fascinating!
Wow, that's tiny! And the printing is really good on it, I love the bright, vibrant colors and how the flames and burners wrap the picture. That is some really good art.
Did you take a straight photo of the chinese characters? There's probably a place to OCR/translate it, I wonder what it says?
The yellow background complements the serene, sedate Buddha with the patient turtle at his feet, as the two braziers send reddish incense smoke skyward. I can only wonder if this image was copied from a Buddhist manuscript.
I have no head for languages, so the Chinese characters are a mystery to me, but they add to the mystery and mystique to this tin.
I can only wonder if this tin and incense burner, once long ago, were in A A Valentine's warehouse on the same shelf at the same time, and are now reunited all these years later. A mystery for the ages, I guess.
Both items are fantastic, Karswell, thanks for sharing.
>I find these vintage products absolutely fascinating!
Hope you enjoyed that catalog link John, it's literally page after page of awesome. :)
>A A Valentine's warehouse
Oh to travel back in time and find out!
>Wow, that's tiny!
Well it's incense, not coffee... the tin is about 4" high, and tbh, not as tiny as most of the tins in my collection. I'll try to translate some of that text on the sides and report back if it works.
My old phone had no trouble translating the larger text in the last photo. The most distant, smaller text got a little jumbled up.
This is a pretty great tin. I feel like my family may have had one like this--only thinner, and with a hinged lid, like an old Band-Aid tin. I might be remembering wrong, though. It was a long time ago.
People in the seventies used little tins like this more than we do today. They were everywhere. They were not precious or preserved; they were used as dishes and ash trays and stashes and worse. I am always surprised when an old tin has survived the seventies.
Dang, forgot: Thanks for that catalogue link. It's really amazing. The Internet Archive is a treasure.
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