Christmas Shopping this Weekend? Your Crackers Won’t be as Good as These….

Batger’s were just about the oldest English Christnas cracker manufacturer, established in 1748. Nowadays Christmas crackers are fairly foul and rather lame things, generically knocked up by some chained up kids in China in somewhere for supermarket chains at rock bottom prices, but they used to be things of beauty and delightful design. Note here, on this early last century box, Chinese lanterns galore…..