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A commemorative tin of uneaten chocolate made in 1902 for the coronation of Britain’s King Edward VII is going on sale at U.K. auction house Auctioneum next month.
The tin doesn’t have a lot page, but it will be sold as part of Auctioneum’s “Advertising & Automobilia” auction on Nov. 4, the auction house posted on Facebook.
The chocolate was made by Rowntree’s, a brand absorbed by global food company Nestle in 1991, and is valued at just over $260, Auctioneum told the Daily Mail.
Another commemorative tin of uneaten chocolate sold for the coronation by Cadbury was sold at auction by Britain’s Hansons Auctioneers in July 2023 for just over $1,300.
The fact that the King Edward chocolate inside went uneaten for 122 years stands out.
“It’s quite remarkable that it went uneaten for so long, especially as this would have been regarded as a real treat at the time. Sweets and chocolates were still a relative novelty; to not eat it must have been a real challenge,” auctioneer Jay Goodman-Browne told the Daily Mail.
As for the goods inside the tin, which features the king and his wife, Queen Alexandra, Mr. Goodman-Browne said some of the silver wrapping paper remains and that given the age of the chocolate it’s “not in bad shape.”
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