What are your Favourite Collectables?
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Dexterity games are characterized by the simple, but often very difficult aim of trying to get small moving parts into holes or go through hoops. They are often cased in circular or rectangular wood or metal glazed boxes and they often have lovely colour printed graphics. They first became popular during the late 19th century and were exported around the world.
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.