Old Tin Water Cracker Box Trio of Gingerbread Family Gathering

After I finished making a set of gingerbreads for my next offering a mysterious thing happened! When I entered my studio the next day all of them seemed to secretly find their way inside an old cracker box overnight that was laying on a table filled with greens and pinecones. This trio seemed to set the stage as far as where they felt comfortable residing and it is no wonder why they picked this cracker tin (or biscuit tin) that was affiliated with a company that provided baked goods for sale. This gingerbread family was not fashioned from flour but instead was created using felt and cotton. They have a personality all their own and each one lends similar characteristics of the dough variety but in this case sprinkled with folksy charm. The advertising tin is marked “Bent’s Hand Made Water Crackers, Bent & Co., Milton, MA”. The history regarding this company is as follows: Josiah Bent in the year of 1801 began selling water crackers that were actually biscuits made of flour