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 ...

Although multiple types of vintage tins exist that can have significant value today, from cracker tins to ones storing medicine to motor oil, the vintage tobacco tin can be especially valuable.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...