![]() ![]() Tinplate boxes first began to be sold from ports in the Bristol Channel in 1725. The method pioneered there of rolling iron plates by means of cylinders enabled more uniform black plates to be produced than was possible with the former practice of hammering. By 1697, John Hanbury had a rolling mill at Pontypool for making "Pontypoole Plates". ![]() The manufacturing of tinplate was the monopoly of Bohemia for a long time in 1667 Andrew Yarranton, an English engineer, and Ambrose Crowley brought the method to England where it was improved by ironmasters including Philip Foley. The use of tinplate for packaging dates back to the 18th century. The earliest recorded use of paper for packaging dates back to 1035, when a Persian traveller visiting markets in Cairo, Arab Egypt, noted that vegetables, spices and hardware were wrapped in paper for the customers after they were sold. The usage of paper-like material in Europe was when the Romans used low grade and recycled papyrus for the packaging of incense. The first usage of paper for packaging was sheets of treated mulberry bark used by the Chinese to wrap foods as early as the first or second century B.C. The study of old packages is an essential aspect of archaeology. ![]() Processed materials were used to form packages as they were developed: first glass and bronze vessels. The first packages used the natural materials available at the time: baskets of reeds, wineskins ( bota bags), wooden boxes, pottery vases, ceramic amphorae, wooden barrels, woven bags, etc. Bronze wine container from the 9th century BCE. ![]()
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