In the 19th century, tins were used to store many products, including commodities such as tea, spices and snuff, because of their air tight seals that preserved freshness. Before the days of media ...

John K. Brater” Vintage little tins like this one I am writing about today reminds us of how many different medical tins and all other kinds of tins are out there to collect and find and add to your ...

Ah, shucks! You could dine on oysters Rockefeller tonight if you’d saved your grandmother’s old tin pails. Not just any tin container, but the ones that held the oysters put up by the dozens of ...

What an amazing example of one of the better known collectibles in my antique world: collecting tins, especially coffee or tobacco tins. It seems that most everyone who started collecting antiques may ...

Although peanut butter in one form or another has been around for centuries, the first patent for it was approved in 1895 and described as “a pasty adhesive substance that is for convenience of ...

The image shown here might surprise you: It is not a bookshelf full of books. It is an antique tin box that held cookies (called biscuits) in England about 1905. Grocery stores in the past were very ...

Hunting for treasures seems to be an inborn trait. Perhaps it's from the need of the caveman to search, find food and store some for later use. For centuries, the very rich surrounded themselves with ...

Tobacciana is the field of collectibles associated with tobacco products. This includes everything from matchboxes to cigar signs that might have something to do with the sale or use of tobacco.

Each tin holds 100 booklets of cigarette paper. Republic Tobacco introduced new limited-edition collectible tins in an art deco style for its TOP Cigarette Paper. Measuring 7 inches wide by 7-1/4 ...

Santa Claus has changed throughout the years. The tall St. Nicholas who left gifts for good children and lumps of coal for bad children was transformed in the 1880s into a small Santa who could slide ...

The new McDonaldland Meal includes a pink-and-blue shake and six collectible tins themed for the chain's beloved characters Erin Clements PEOPLE got an early taste of the new McDonaldland Meal, which ...