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Selection of our vintage tins for sale

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1950s Petits Fours Tin. Pretty Graphics: £20

Little Toffee Tin. Two Cute Little White Scotties
SOLD

Large 1950s Biscuit Tin. Two Cute Little Westies 
SOLD 

1960s Horses Design Tea Tin: £15

 
1960s Horse Tin (detail)

Cute little 1960s Lyon's Petits Fours Tin: £18

Rare Vintage 60s Butlins Tea Tray "Butlinland". Nice large size and in fairly good condition for its age: £35 (more details of ilustrations to the right)

Very collectable 1960s Butlins tin
(red writing)
SOLD

1960s Butlins Tin (red writing, side view)

Very collectable 1960s Butlins tin (orange writing): £20

1960s Butlins Tin (orange writing, side view)

Collectable 1960s BOAC aircraft tin
SOLD

1960s BOAC tin (side view)

Enormous Horner Toffee Tin
SOLD

Enormous Early Blue Boy Toffee Tin
SOLD

Art Nouveau tin, decorated to resemble Chinese lacquer. Fair Condition for age: £20

1930s King George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee Tin (rare): £35

Lyons Tea 1930s Silver Jubilee Tin (reverse)

King George V and Queen Mary, large vintage tin (but sadly not in such good condition): hence price £12

Early 20th century, decorative tin.
Art Nouveau Style. Fair Condtion for its Age: £35

 
 
Early decorative tin (side view)
 
 

Early tobacco tin: £12

Early Scottish Tobacco Tin
SOLD

Cute little 1950s Crawford's Biscuit tin
SOLD

Vintage Chinese (Hong Kong) Ginger Tin
SOLD

Vintage American Tobacco Tin. Opens at the top. Excellent Condition: £15

Vintage Tin in the Shape of an Old Tram Car. Good condition and can also be used as a bank: £24

Tram Car Bank (detail)

Small 1950s Sweets Tin, Cute Railway Subject: £20

RAREArt Deco Design Mints Tin
SOLD

Vintage "Girl's Own" Pencil Tin
SOLD

Early Vintage Baby Powder Tin
SOLD

HUGE Vintage American Marshmallow Tin (Chicago), in good condition. RARE American item
SOLD

Rare Biscuit Tin BOAC
 (British Overseas Airways Company).
SOLD

Large 1950s Peek Freans Biscuit Tin: £25

Little Vintage Art Nouveau Sample Tin for Tea.  Edinburgh, London & Winnipeg
SOLD

Large Vintage 1960s Cake Tin.
The design is a pastiche of
"My Fair Lady".
Fine Condition: £35 (detail to the right)

Vintage 1940s Toffee Tin, with lid decorated with picture of King George V & Family: Fine Condition
(a couple of wee scuffs to the top)
SOLD

Unusual Vintage 1950s / 60s
Jacobs Cream Cracker Tin.
SOLD

Early Tin. "Ring Travellers" made in Bombay. Fine Condition for age: £25 

Interesting Little Red Budgie Tin: £24

Cute Little Mabel Lucie Attwell Tin. 
SOLD

Old (Black Cat) "Craven A" 
Cigarette Tin.
Good Condition: £14

Large Shabby Chic 1950s Cadbury's Roses Tin: Rare item due to the fact that you could return the tin for a refund after you consumed the chocolates inside.

Vintage 1950s Cadubry's Roses Tin
 (side view). In generally fair condition, but highly decorative & reflected in the price: £30

Side view showing you that this was a tin fit for Willy Wonka! 
A full 6lbs full of chocolates!!!

Vintage 1960s / 70s Large Mackintosh Toffee Tin.
Good Conditon: £15

Two Art Deco Tins each with pastels inside. Fantastic Condition and Graphics:
£25 each

Interesting Dutch Tin, probably 1930s or 40s. Unusual Art Deco Design. Fair Condition for age: £20

Vintage Tea Tin: Chinese Junk & Pagoda Design
SOLD

Cute Little Pocket Size Vintage Pastille Tin: £8

Vintage Tea Tin. Indian Design, Back View & Top with Snake Charmer to the right
SOLD

Vintage Pocket Size Pastille Tin: £8

Large Biscuit Tin with Hunting Horse and Hounds Design
SOLD

Quirky and slightly kitsch Robert the Bruce Shortbread Tin:  £15
SOLD (to Stirling Smith Art Gallery)

Very Unusual Design. 1950s Huntley and Palmer's Cocktail Snacks. Atomic - with bright yellow background covered with tiny black dots. Fair condition for age, a tiny scuff to the top, but a rare tin: £30 (plus free UK p&p)

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 Very Rare, Early Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Tin, c 1911.
This is in fine condition for its age and takes the form of a Russian painted casket: £95.
(This tin is illustrated in the book British Biscuit Tins)

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Small Vintage Advertising Tin. Great Graphics
SOLD

Very Early Tobacco Tin.
Small pocket size: £20

Early Bulwark Tobacco Tin. Large Size and Fair Condition for Age: £35

Old Automobilia: Windscreen Cleaning Pad
(with original pad still inside).
 A bit time-loved, hence the price: £10

Rare Vintage Cigar Tin, with Original Paper Label: £25


Vintage 1960s Tin, Showing Below and Right, Scenes of Old London, after Thomas Shotter Boys
SOLD

Rare Early 1970s "Wella" Hairdressing Tin. Very Retro with an Art Nouveau, Biba Inspired Decoration. Slight shabby condition, but a very hard to find and a nice large size: £35

Large 1953 Coronation Biscuit Tin. 
SOLD

1930s / 40s Vintage Sweeties Tins. Fair Condition, with a bit of wear commensurate with age. Art Deco Homesweets' Tin: £12, Thorne's Toffee Tin showing Girl with Little Dog: £18

Rare 1970s "Dodo Designs" Tin. Very Carnaby Street in Inspiration. Good Condition, Specialist Collector's Item: £40

Large Vintage 1950s / 60s Baby Milk Tin. Good Condition: £25 (free UK p&p)

Smaller Vintage "Dodo Designs" Tin (with Baden-Powell featured on the lid). Sadly not so fine condition, but collectable all the same: £24

Small, Vintage BOAC Tin. Good Condition
SOLD

Vintage and Decorative Ty-phoo Tea Tin. Good Condition
("Empire Tea")
SOLD

Early 20th Century Tobacco Tin. Good Condition for Age, with early gold gilt still present: £25

Vanity Collector's Item: Little Metal Talcum Powder Tin. Art Nouveau Design

SOLD

Vintage 1930s Round Biscuit Tin, Showing an Image of the Royal Family, as photographed by Marcus Adams. Slightly scuffed on the lid
SOLD

Interesting Old Macdonald's "Kiltie" Tobacco Tin. Sadly a bit on the scruffy side, but a rather rare tin nevertheless: £15 (taking into account its shabby condition!)

Small Tam O'Shanter Tobacco Tins. Rarer design for the Empire!: £15 each (free UK p&p)

ONE SOLD;
ONLY ONE LEFT

Very Rare "Victoria Typograph" Tin (with blue lithograph printed design on the top), and an Old Rather Primitive Printing Set and Letters Inside. Fair Condition for Age & Rarity: £40

Cute Vintage Cartoon Cat Tin, for Horner Toffees.
SOLD

Rare LIttle Vintage Sindy Doll Talcum Powder Tin. Very Good Condition: £15

Rare Old Balkan Sobraine Turkish Cigarette Tin (once held 25 cigarettes)

SOLD

Three Unusual Tins in the Shape of Little Shops. Each with a metal flap on the exterior which represents a shop canopy. Each tin in fair condition, with minor touches of rusting to the bottom edges
 SOLD

Very Early Biscuit Tin. Art Nouveau Design with Dragonfly and Waterlily Motif
SOLD

Early Art Nouveau Toffee Tin: £45

Large Quirky Warner Brothers Cartoon Tin - "That's All Folks". Good Condition: £15

Large Quirky Warner Brothers Cartoon Tin - "That's All Folks". Elmer Fudd. Good Condition: £15

 
Vintage Cadbury's Fingers Little Biscuit Tin 1960s. Good Condition: £18 (free UK p&p)

Unusually Shaped Tin: Decorated with Tourist Sites (printed in gold) and Colourful Postage Stamps. 1950s: £14

Vintage RMS Queen Mary Tin, Probably dating from the 1950s
SOLD

Cute Peak Freen Biscuit Tin. Little Girl Holding a White Rabbit.
SOLD

Hot Stuff! Large 4lb Vintage Tin - Colman's Mustard
SOLD

Wonderfully Kitsch Peek Frean Biscuit Tin with Little Highland Dancer. Perfect Condition: £30

Iconic 1950s Design.
Cocktail Biscuit Tin.
Excellent Condition: £25

Very Rare Vintage Harrods Turkish Cigarette No. 10 Tin, with Original Paper Label Inside the Lid: £35 (free UK p&p)

Early Art Nouveau Tin. Pontefract Cakes. Fair Condition, hence price: £12

Stylish Little 1960s Cadbury's Lucky Numbers Tin: £18 (Free UK p&p)

Little 1950s Nursery Rhyme Toffee Tin: £20 (free UK p&p)

Small Vintage Fisherman's Friend Tin, with Original Contents.
SOLD

Interesting Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday Toffee Tin. Quite a large size: £20

Large 1960s Huntley and Palmer Biscuit Box. Great Graphics: £25
RESERVED 3 JANUARY 2012

Lovely Vintage Tin with Glamourous Lady Picking Tulips: Excellent Condtion: £20

   

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