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.

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 ...

Q: I’ve done Internet searches but cannot find any info on my two unopened cans of Chesterfield cigarettes from the 1950s. A: Images sent show that our reader indeed has two unopened round tins, each ...

Going once, going twice, 3 Strikes you’re out. An early-1900s tobacco tin sold at an auction Sunday in New Hamburg, Ont., for $55,000, five times its presale estimate. The lithographed flip-lid ...

Advance bidding for a Canadian tobacco tin from the early 1900s is smokin’ hot, having already reached $29,000 for an item originally estimated to fetch a third of that price. And to think that the ...

A rare, nearly 125-year-old red and yellow pocket tin sold for an astounding $55,000 at a New Hamburg auction on Sunday. When Ethan Miller, CEO of Miller & Miller Auctions, and his brother Justin came ...

Last year, a 33-year-old Chicago resident who prefers to keep his last name anonymous, received a very special gift from his father. No, it wasn’t a new car or help with a downpayment on a first house ...

GRAND-HALLET, Belgium, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The colourful tins piled high around Belgian collector Yvette Dardenne used to contain goods ranging from chocolates, toffees, coffee and rice to tobacco, talc ...

April Fools’ Day is the day for jokes, but so are many other days. And one of the best jokes ever involved a tobacco tin. Prince Albert was a popular brand of tobacco first made in 1907. It was named ...