Agfa 1914 Tin?

Kino · Mar 14, 2019

Can anyone identify what this Agfa tin container might have contained? I don't have physical possession of this item and don't know the dimensions. It is in a local auction...

AgX · Mar 15, 2019

I see it for the first time. The spelling shows it was intended for foreign us (English or French). As there is no hint at a certain product I assume it contained some giveaway. Though I always thought giveaways were something of later periods. But the box may originate from a foreign sales office.

Well, ... I searched for those boxes and they seem to have been made only recently (early 90s). 13 x 8,5 x 6,5 cm.
A whole range with varying motives and years going back to 1906.

https://www.google.de/search?q=Agfa+Blechschachtel+werbung&client=opera&biw=983&bih=546&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=JOWB5l8NtThONM%3A%2C1fPr-0km-hGMPM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRbYU4wUQ_c8GohiIsazIYR6WjZhw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWnver04PhAhVqMOwKHVA2DA8Q9QEwCXoECAYQBA#imgrc=JOWB5l8NtThONM:

https://picclick.de/AGFA-Photo-Arti...-Blechdosen-Nostalgie-Retro-254138524723.html

Height of the box is too big for for type 135 containers. But maybe Agfa just bought standard boxes from a manufacturer:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mdUAAOSwbsJcKTCW/s-l1600.jpg

Maybe Agfa was not even involved....

TheMissingLink · Mar 15, 2019

Also found these here, enough for imagination of proportion and size:
https://fotoclubbg.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/banco-old1.jpg

and here:
https://en.todocoleccion.net/metal-...icle-publicitaria-muy-bonita-nueva-~x38278173

miha · Mar 15, 2019

Agfa sold film in similar tin boxes even in the 90s, as a special ediotion item, obviously. I have such tin box purchased in the early 1990 in Germany, containing 9 Agfachrome Precisa films, mine looks exactly like this one: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/blechdose-agfa-bild-1906/308360785-234-7246
I still have the box somewhere.

p.s. I see AgX already replied and also stated measurments of the box which suggest the number of the film the box contained could not be 9 as I wrote above...

Kino · Mar 15, 2019

Thank you for the responses, everyone! I have since communicated with the seller who stated he purchased the tin in England in the 1970's, so it's probably just a promotional tin with a nostalgic theme.

I must admit, I do like the one with the flapper girl and the car!

railwayman3 · Mar 15, 2019

I have a couple of these particulatr tins, which I purchased in the UK in the 1990's :-
https://picclick.de/AGFA-Photo-Arti...lte-Blechdose-Nostalgie-Art-254140911402.html

IIRC, they each contained a special offer of 4 Agfacolor 35mm negative films.

miha · Mar 15, 2019

I found mine:

I cannot figure out have many films were in there originally...

And there is a price sticker: 39.90 DM - I figure it must have been a birthday gift from my father.

AgX · Mar 15, 2019

Strange that this is the first time I learn about these.

Helios 1984 · Mar 17, 2019

Kino said:
I must admit, I do like the one with the flapper girl and the car!

A classic, she's often present in old Agfa literature.

AgX · Mar 17, 2019

First time too I read this term.

Agfa 1914 Tin?

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