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.

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 ...

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 ...

Who among us can remember playing in grandma’s old button box, the one with the lady on the front holding a fruitcake? Or how about reaching into the saltine-cracker tin for a snack, then using the ...

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 ...