Going, going, gone with a bang: early Christmas crackers at auction

A decade ago V&A curators used an X-ray to discover what was inside a vintage Christmas cracker made in the 1920s by the Tom Smith company without having to actually pull it. This revealed a small chocolate.

The new owner of a complete Edwardian boxed set of Tom Smith’s Parlour Fireworks offered at Kingha…

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