Would you eat a box of 100-year-old chocolates?
Eileen Elmes from London kept a box of novelty chocolates for 100 years, because they were "too pretty to eat".
Easter bunnies that have bright eyes and bells around their necks, Valentine's Day chocolates in the shape of hearts and kisses, Christmas chocolates that look like trees or baubles - the options for novelty chocolate are endless.
Eileen Elmes received a box of these beautiful novelty chocolates in the early 1900s. The box had a Little Red Riding Hood theme, and included a chocolate doll dressed in the iconic red cape.
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The expertly crafted chocolates, which were produced by a former employee of Cadbury's, became so special to Eileen, that she decided not to eat them.
This is what the chocolates look like today:
The chocolates have been kept in the same box ever since Eileen received them, and the box reportedly still gives off a rich cocoa smell when it is opened.
Now, ten years after her death, Eileen's Little Red Riding Hood chocolates are going to be put up for auction by Hanson Auctioneers.
Holding onto the pretty sweets that you receive at special times of the year can help to preserve the memory. You can have Christmas cheer as long as you have some leftover Christmas cake, right?
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But what's the use of keeping the sweets around, if you don't eat them?
Have you ever kept a box of biscuits or chocolates at the back of your pantry because they were simply "too beautiful to eat"?