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Food label for Kraft pure groundnut oil
Description: Food label for Kraft pure groundnut oil showing two colour images; one of eggs, sausages, bacon and steak cooking in a frying pan and the other of a bowl of salad. The wrapper includes uses for groundnut oil and reads ' Kraft pure groundnut oil the light touch for frying. Salad dressings. 454ml. 16fl oz. Printers' notes read 'Reduce 3 to 2 and supply 1 set combined line and half tone positives for offset printing.
Accession Number: SH.2009.8.1
Further Notes: Original artwork created by Smith & Ritchie. Smith and Ritchie were established in Edinburgh in 1853. The firm were multi colour offset printers who were specialist suppliers to the food packaging industry. They were located at Amphion Works in Albert Street. In 1963 Smith & Ritchie became the first printing company in Scotland to use a gravure press and produced reel fed work up to five colours. Smith & Ritchie moved to Livingston in 1986 and in 1991 became the first printing firm in Scotland to use a 10 station gravure press.
Smith & Ritchie have subsequently moved out to Livingston and survive today as Amcor Flexibles S & R. Amcor are originally an Australian company and now have operations in 36 countries around the world specialising in many printed products of which the food packaging that Amcor Flexibles S & R is one.
History: Smith & Ritchie were located at 71 Albert Street, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
EH7 5LL
Food label for Kraft pure groundnut oil
Description: Food label for Kraft pure groundnut oil showing two colour images; one of eggs, sausages, bacon and steak cooking in a frying pan and the other of a bowl of salad. The wrapper includes uses for groundnut oil and reads ' Kraft pure groundnut oil the light touch for frying. Salad dressings. 454ml. 16fl oz. Printers' notes read 'Reduce 3 to 2 and supply 1 set combined line and half tone positives for offset printing.
Accession Number: SH.2009.8.1
Further Notes: Original artwork created by Smith & Ritchie. Smith and Ritchie were established in Edinburgh in 1853. The firm were multi colour offset printers who were specialist suppliers to the food packaging industry. They were located at Amphion Works in Albert Street. In 1963 Smith & Ritchie became the first printing company in Scotland to use a gravure press and produced reel fed work up to five colours. Smith & Ritchie moved to Livingston in 1986 and in 1991 became the first printing firm in Scotland to use a 10 station gravure press.
Smith & Ritchie have subsequently moved out to Livingston and survive today as Amcor Flexibles S & R. Amcor are originally an Australian company and now have operations in 36 countries around the world specialising in many printed products of which the food packaging that Amcor Flexibles S & R is one.
History: Smith & Ritchie were located at 71 Albert Street, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
EH7 5LL