{"id":1819,"date":"2012-03-03T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2012-03-03T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T19:14:03","slug":"30-year-old-snickers-wrappers-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"30-Year-Old-Snickers – Wrappers Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago<\/a>, I presented an assortment of unopened chocolate bars from 1981.\u00a0 As a candy collector, I originally acquired them with the desire to recover the packaging – not so much the decades-old chocolate inside.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Opening those packages and comparing the old contents with current versions turned out to be a fun topic and today I want to show you the fully-recovered packaging.<\/p>\n

Getting the bars out of the wrappers was only half of my recovery process.\u00a0 Due to their age, getting these wrappers into a nice flat shape took time.\u00a0 Using a number of tools including a butter knife, a detail cutting blade, and a Sharpie marker (capped) – I was able to carefully deconstruct the wrappers.\u00a0 After that, I placed each wrapper between two sheets of plain white paper and allowed a few days of flattening inside old hardcover books.<\/p>\n

Presented here are the wrappers as they now look.<\/p>\n

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1981 Snickers - 1990 UK Snickers-Marathon - 2011 Snickers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Milky Way wrappers - 1981 - 1987 - 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

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3-Musketeers wrappers - 1981 and 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

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M&M's Peanut wrappers - 1981 and 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

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M&M's Plain wrappers - 1981 and 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups wrappers - 1981 and 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

I think these wrappers came out of the recovery process looking pretty good.\u00a0 It’s not always easy getting a wrapper into a flattened-out shape, and not all collectors I know do this.\u00a0 Some collectors prefer to keep the wrapper looking somewhat close to how they appear with the candy still inside.<\/p>\n

At some point, I will photograph some of the unorthodox methods I’ve developed to recover wrappers from bars with minimal tearing.<\/p>\n

To check out my original post documenting the opening of these bars, head over here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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