Cylindrical earthenware jar with an indentation below the rim and a white glaze. There is a black roller-printed design on the side of the jar featuring the Sains-berry trade mark and an inscription giving the name of the product, 'J. SAINSBURY'S SUPERIOR HOME MADE POTTED MEATS'. There is a partially obscured, impressed pattern mark on the base.
The jar would have contained meat paste, a product made especially for Sainsbury's by Shippams and available in Sainsbury's branches from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Sainsbury's potted meats jars
J. Sainsbury's Superior Home Made Potted Meats jar
Cylindrical earthenware jar with an indentation below the rim and a white glaze. There is a black roller-printed design on the side of the jar featuring the Sains-berry trade mark and an inscription giving the name of the product, 'J. SAINSBURY'S SUPERIOR HOME MADE POTTED MEATS'. There is a...
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- Ref. No: SA/PKC/PRO/1/14/3/3/37/3
- Format: Object
- Date: 1920-1940
- Level: Item
- Extent: 4 items
- Access: Open
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Theo Ratcliff, 30/04/2022, Oxford
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Theo Ratcliff, 30/04/2022, Oxford
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Your website asked for memories related to the page about Sainsbury's potted meat jars... This isn't a memory - but... my 8 year old son, Dylan, recently found a load of broken pots and jars in a...
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Your website asked for memories related to the page about Sainsbury's potted meat jars...
This isn't a memory - but... my 8 year old son, Dylan, recently found a load of broken pots and jars in a wood near our house in Oxford ('the treasure dump' he calls it). A bit of detective work has helped identify one fragment as part of one of the 1930s 'potted meat' jars in your online archive. It now has pride of place in his 'Museum of interesting things'. Dylan is convinced he's in possession of genuine treasure. I have rarely seen him so enthused. We've been back digging around 4 times this month!
I promised him I'd let Sainsbury's know, in case you want it back...!
Theo Ratcliff, 30 April 2022
Hi Theo,
Thank you for your lovely message, and well done for correctly identifying where this fragment came from – it’s far from obvious! We have quite a few examples of these early meat and bloater (fish) paste jars, so Dylan can certainly keep his “treasure” – you might even find some more old Sainsbury’s items. You can see photos and read a bit more about these jars in articles from years gone by in ‘JS Journal’, the Sainsbury’s staff magazine:
- https://d1nvj7b44vmgv4.cloudfront.net/_file/journal/SA_SC_JSJ_26_3.pdf#page=28
- https://d1nvj7b44vmgv4.cloudfront.net/_file/journal/SA_SC_JSJ_28_2.pdf#page=3
- https://d1nvj7b44vmgv4.cloudfront.net/_file/journal/SA_SC_JSJ_41_2.pdf#page=19
Good luck with the next dig!
Best wishes,
George Cooban
Assistant Archivist
Sainsbury Archive, 3 May 2022