@nevillesdaughter wrote:
This time I'm right. You can still buy Nugget shoe polish but Alexanders was an Australian company still operating into the 1960"s. They produced and sold N.... shoe polish and the tin even had a graphic of some sort of stork-type bird carrying a black baby!
I used to work for an antiques dealer and you still see the tins come up as collectors' items.
Marina.
You are right. I just googled and found info. That's amazing. No doubt it was racist, with the black baby depicted.
