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From what I've been able to find out this was two guys, possibly father and son, maybe brothers. Charlie and Wally Pasquale. Were made on LI somewhere east of NYC, one or both guys worked for the NY Times as press operators. These tins were made of Linotype scrapped from press operations. Production was ceased sometime when they started to go digital print and they couldn't source the Linotype lead cheaply to make it worthwhile.
I would love to find out where the molds are if anyone knows. The guy I got these tins from was going to get the molds because he bought 6-8 large boxes of tins back then but for some reason the guy never produced them and went in the hospital after a few months of trying to contact him, he died sometime after. The molds could still exist or could have been destroyed.
There should be lots of these out there in collections and people's basements, from what I've heard they were very popular back then.
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