Editing Packaging (section)

====Tinplate====
The use of [[tinning|tinplate]] for packaging dates back to the 18th century. 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]].<ref>{{Citation|first=P.J.|last=Brown|title=Andrew Yarranton and the British tinplate industry|periodical=Historical Metallurgy|volume=22|year=1988|pages=42–48|issue=1}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=P.W.|last=King|title=Wolverley Lower Mill and the beginnings of the tinplate industry|periodical=Historical Metallurgy|volume=22|year=1988|pages=104–113|issue=2}}</ref> By 1697, [[John Hanbury (1664–1734)|John Hanbury]]<ref>{{Harvnb|King|1988|p= 109}}</ref> had a rolling mill at [[Pontypool]] for making "Pontypool Plates".<ref>H.R. Schubert, ''History of the British iron and steel industry ... to 1775'', 429.</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=W.W.|last=Minchinton|title=The British tinplate industry: a history|year=1957|publisher=Clarendon Press, Oxford|page=10}}</ref> 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 [[hammer]]ing.

Tinplate boxes first began to be sold from ports in the [[Bristol Channel]] in 1725.  The tinplate was shipped from [[Newport, Monmouthshire]].<ref>Data extracted from D.P. Hussey ''et al., Gloucester Port Books Database'' (CD-ROM, University of Wolverhampton 1995).</ref> By 1805, 80,000 boxes were made and 50,000 exported. [[Tobacco]]nists in London began packaging snuff in metal-plated canisters from the 1760s onwards.