3-074-759 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: MESSRS. FRY'S EXHIBIT OF CHOCOLATE AND COCOA..., 1883. '...OBTAINED THE DIPLOMA OF HONOUR (THE HIGHEST AWARD)...Messrs. J. S. Fry and Sons's show case...is so well placed and so elegantly designed that no visitor who strolls through the courts is likely to miss seeing it...no finer display of the products of the cacao tree is to be found in any other portion of the building...The arrangement of their octagonal case is effective in the extreme...the variety and extent of the firm's manufactures are prominently displayed. Four handsome glass exhibition jars at the base contain Cocoa Extract, Caracas Chocolate, Queen Victoria Chocolate, and Homoeopathic Cocoa respectively; while above them, resting on a very prettily constructed arch, there are glass jars full of the Cocoa bean, as imported from Carupano, Bahia, Guayaquil, and other important centres where the plant is extensively cultivated. Cocoa pods, and other designs made entirely of Chocolate, are a noticeable feature of the exhibit, the general arrangement of which displays much taste...there are Chocolates in sticks and squares which would satisfy a person possessing an exceptionally sweet tooth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.