While thrifting for valuable items can be tricky, keeping an eye out for these kinds of unique tins can be financially worth ...

"Some people like small tobacco tins and cigar boxes for decor, others may collect for nostalgic reasons," Pehler said. 1 / 2: Cigar boxes found at Sarah's Uniques.

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 ...

A great grandson inherited 130 Cracker Jack baseball cards from the early 1900s stored in an old tobacco tin which he didn’t know existed. They are worth $10,000 to $12,000 and include Honus ...

Around the 1880s, school children who wanted to emulate their daddies fashioned similar caddies out of empty cookie or tobacco tins. According to the timeline, the first commercial lunch boxes ...

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 ...

A small Canadian chewing tobacco tin, originally estimated to sell for around $9,000 to $12,000 fetched a whopping $55,000 at a New Hamburg auction over the weekend.

Item 1 of 5 Vintage lithographed tin boxes, part of a huge collection of almost 60,000 pieces started 30 years ago by Yvette Dardenne, 83, from Belgium, who is describing herself as a ...

The early 1900's Pedro Cut Plug Tobacco tin was filled with "many different types of pre-war baseball cards from the 1920's era including strip baseball cards from 1919 to 1923 and rare 1924-26 ...

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 ...

Two tobacco tins used by Lawrence of Arabia’s army have been discovered during an excavation of a campsite used during the 1916-18 Great Arab Revolt. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...