What are your Favourite Collectables?
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Advertising tins were used by manufacturers between the 1880s and 1930s. A major part of the appeal of collecting tins is the fact that they are accessible to all ages and can put together a wonderful collection without spending too much money.
Advertising tins also make very useful storage containers for other small collections, such as buttons, badges or coins. If you want to start collecting advertising tins it would be a good idea to start off with the smaller tins. The large, novelty shaped tins like toy liners and steam locomotive shaped tins by such makers as Crawfords Biscuits, or the more desirable shapes by Huntley & Palmer Palmer and Peek Frean fetch quite a lot of money.
Some people think wine has only been popular in Britain in recent years, but that is definitely not so. There was serious drinking at Regency dinner parties when the ladies had retired to the drawing room to drink tea and the servants would bring decanters of wine, port and sherry for the gentlemen. Keeping the wines cool was not easy in a room with a blazing fire and lit by dozens of candles. The most simple solution was using a pair of elegant ice buckets, but during large parties and balls they would have used a wooden wine cooler, which could hold a number of bottles and could be stowed away under the table.