rude biscuits
A biscuit tin's apparently charming illustration of an Edwardian garden party holds hidden secrets. The tins were manufactured by Huntley & Palmers in 1980 before anyone noticed that the artist - in a final act of vandalism after getting the sack - had concealed two naked lovers and a pair of copulating dogs in the undergrowth, and the word 'shit' on the label of a jam jar. The additions to the lid went unnoticed for years, until a shopworker spotted them. Production was halted immediately, but thousands of the tins had been sold. One of the few remaining tins will be auctioned next week after being found in the collection of a West Country aristocrat.