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Chocolate
wrappers attractions
The
biggest chocolate wrapper in the collection comes from a 4,5kg swiss
chocolate Toblerone, almost the same weight (9 pounds) of chocolate
wrappers reach two american chocolate wrappers Nestlé Crunch.
The smallest chocolate wrappers in the collection are from chocolate
napolitains which weigh often only about 3 grams!
The
oldest chocolate wrappers in the collection probably comes
from
the nineties of the nineteenth century. Among oldest chocolate wrappers
belongs chocolate wrapper by french company Felix Potin and german
chocolate wrapper Deutsche Schokolade by company Theodor Hildebrand.
The oldest chocolate wrappers originating from the territory of the
Czech Republic in the collection are Touristen Chocolade
wrappers made by Jordan & Timaeus in Bodenbach (now Podmokly,
part
of town Děčín). On the cover are given depot in Prague, Vienna and
Budapest, and the company used the title kuk court contractors.
Northernmost chocolate factory in
the world was Linda in Icelandic town of Akureyri, today, this brand of
chocolate is produced in the town Gardabaer near Reykjavik.
Southernmost
place where chocolate is produced is in the Argentine city of Ushuaia
on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego, where there are several
manufacturers of handmade chocolates, such as Laguna Negra. |
chocolate wrapper Deutsche Schokolade by german
company Hildebrand (founded 1817)
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chocolate
wrapper Jordan & Timaeus from Bodenbach (now part of town Děčín
called Podmokly) from austria-hungary empire era - about 1910
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english chocolate wrapper Peter issued to the
coronation of queen Elisabeth II. in 1953
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Collecting of
chocolate
wrappers
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ancient times people have been collecting many different things. Some
collecting
interests like stamps, coins, banknotes or postcards have became
mass
popular. Collecting of many gastronomic items also started during
twentieth century. It is difficult to say where and when first
collections of
chocolate
wrappers were founded but probably it was in era between world wars in
some european countries and in Usa. Golden ages of collecting
chocolate
wrappers started in 1960´s and 1970´s. I think there are some
collectors
of chocolate wrappers in every country where chocolate is widely
popular
- it means Europe, North America and large Latinoamerican countries +
european
culture influenced lands like Israel, South Africa, India, Australia or
New Zealand. |
How to collect
| Most of first
wrappers in all collections come from chocolates bought by collector
himself
or from friends. It is possible to write requests to chocolate
companies
but not every company will respond by sending some wrappers. There are
also people who kept some wrappers in past or stopped with collecting
so
you can get some older wrappers by this way. The best method is
exchange
of wrappers with other collectors. |
Storing of
chocolate wrappers
I put most
of my wrappers into transparent folios in files. I have now over 240
files
full of chocolate wrappers. Chocolate wrappers that are too large or
too small I keep in
envelopes
( except extra large chocolate wrappers like Milka Millenium or 1kg
wrapper by
slovenian
Gorenjka). All the wrappers are filled according to their country
origin,
then alphabetically in order of the producer.
There are
also other ways ( better or worse ) how to keep the collection. In the
beginning of the chocolate collecting cutting fronts of wrappers was
frequent
way to minimalize storing room. Unfortunately there are still some
collectors
using this way how to damage the wrappers.
Some collectors
also attach the wrappers to papers. I think the best methods are
keeping
them in folios in files or keep them in envelopes. |
Similar
collections
| Many collectors
also specialize in M & M´s or Smarties items. Very popular is
collecting
of figures and toys from Kinder Suprise chocolate eggs made by italian
Ferrero. Since 1880´s when swiss Suchard first put collectible pictures
to chocolate bars many companies have gone this way of advertising
their
products. These series of pictures also became target for collecting. |
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Chocolate
wrappers shown here are
scans of real chocolate wrappers from still growing collection of
Martin
Mihál.
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