Thursday 25 March 2010

From Russia with love...

This stunning tin box arrived in the Swenglish household a few years ago, from a friend who, at the time, was residing in Azerbadjan. My Russian is a little bit rusty, shall we say, but I think it is a tin that once, a hundred years ago or so, contained chocolates.



A little scruffy, sadly devoid of chocolate, but with a vintage factor so high it almost makes up for the lack of chocolate.

Almost.

5 comments:

  1. Vilken underbar box och så kul att ha något så ovanligt( i alla fall i min värld) som en chokladask från Ryssland! Mycket vacker är den dessutom!

    TACK raraste du för awarden!

    Ha en härlig dag!
    Kram
    Lisa

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  2. Vilken underbar burk.

    Tack snälla för awarden! Vad glad jag blir!

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  3. Beautiful!
    Och jag var ju bara tvungen att kika in till dig! Vad fint du har det! ;)

    Sara

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  4. Ups...
    As a russian, I can say, this is a box from caramel (sugarplum).
    On the box is a sign: Caramel from confectioner´s factory of V.F. Lapshin in Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad, now Volgograd). Hihg quality.
    This is the box definitely from the period before 1925, when Tsaritsyn became a Stalingrad. And most likely, it was before 1917, because after the Revolution the factory was nationalized.
    Thanks for the nice blog!
    Lada.

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