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Retailer (1875 - 1951)

Incense tin

1920-1930
Metal
Overall: 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (9.5 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm)
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
2002.1.2038
DescriptionThis yellow metal tin is printed on two sides with a print in red, green, brown and gold of a statue of Buddha in front of a turtle flanked by large incense burners. It reads "Vantine's Temple Incense/ Pine/ A.A. Vantine & Co., Inc./ New York". The other two sides have Chinese characters.
Collections
  • Business and Advertising Ephemera: The Bella C. Landauer Collection
Box
A. A. Vantine & Co.
1900-1930
2002.1.425
Incense burner
Seizan
ca. 1880
S-247.7b
Incense burner
Seizan
ca. 1880
S-247.7a
Incense burner
ca. 1890-1940
1947.148ab
Incense burner
ca. 1904
1947.55ab
The Eleanor Van Rensselaer Fairfax Award Medal
Medallic Art Company
1930
1943.145
Tin/ food
1900-1930
2002.1.2251
Jenny Lind Commemorative Medal
Jenny Lind
After 1887
1945.187b