Old Maxwell House Instant Coffee Tin

by Nick (The Coffee Detective)
(Montreal, Canada)

I found this old Maxwell House instant coffee tin in a junk shop in the UK. While old coffee tins might be ubiquitous in North America, that's not the case in the UK. Look around an English tool shed and you won't find nails and screws in coffee tins. Instead you'll find the shelves lined with old tobacco tins and biscuit tins. So this Maxwell House coffee tin is a bit of a rarity. You can tell it is quite old by the SAVE 4d. The "d" represented a penny in the old English currency before decimalization in 1971.