Thrifting is an economical way to find vintage and rare products, like tinware. These metal items are typically made of tinplate, a combination of steel and tin. While first appearing as early as the ...

If you love little antique containers, thrift stores can be a dangerous place for your wallet. You'll find jars, tins, and boxes with unique vintage designs in all shapes and sizes. Add their cool ...

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.

Daniel Weiss built a collection of tins with lard, tobacco, tennis balls, razors — you name it, it’s for sale in Mountlake Terrace. MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Daniel Weiss is sure there is someone out there ...

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 ...

They say that one person's trash is another's treasure. Don Wilson's collection of dip tins is testament to that. Mr Wilson owns a salvage yard at Cabarita, near Mildura in north-west Victoria, and ...

Gaily painted or printed up-vehicles, characters and creatures in tin-plated steel, were the mainstay of toy making for over a century. Available in commercial form since the 1850s, vintage tin-plate ...

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