Category Archives: Antique Advertising Tins

  Collector Alert: Coffee tin collectors know the difficulty of finding tins with original lids. Many valuable tins are found without them which greatly reduces their selling prices. Now it is learned that acouple of unscrupulous individuals are painting lids to closely match the tin body. This is not the everyday touch-up, but a deliberate attempt to deceive the collector…. Read more »

       It’s only been within the last 25 years that condom tins have been collected to any degree but the condom has been around fornearly 3,000 years. First reports of their usage was by the Egyptians as far back as 1,000 B.C. Some feel though that it was the Roman soldier’s desire to avoid the “Mount Vesuvius Rash” that… Read more »