Duncan's Merrols - advert issued by W & M Duncan & Co, Edinburgh, 1955

            Ah - Duncan's, the once famous Edinburgh chocolate and confectionery manufacturer whose main advertising strapline recalled by many older Scots was "Duncan - the Scots Word for Chocolate". Here, in this 1955 advert for Merrols, a butterscotch bonbon, a slight variation is used in that 'quality' comes to the fore.

Duncan's dated back, in Edinburgh, to the 1880s when the Dundonian family Duncan's moved to the capital. By 1891 they'd opened the Beaverhall Works where, in 1911, their most famous line - and the only one that survives the vissectitudes of the company, the Walnut Whip, was first produced. By 1927 they'd been acquired by Rowntree's and so, in time, became part of the Rowntree Mackintosh Group but the brand was continued for many decades. In 1987 the Edinburgh factory was closed and various ultimately unsucessful attempts to resucitate the brand followed.

Taken on: June 26, 2021

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