Art historians document images of smoking dating back to the ancient world. It follows that seasoned antiquers still search for all types of tobacco and smoking collectibles. Some of the most popular ...

Looking for steals and deals in the collectible world? There's a market for cigar boxes and tobacco tins. Good, saleable finds are storage items — not only cigar boxes and tobacco tins, but bank boxes ...

What an amazing example of one of the better known collectibles in my antique world: collecting tins, especially coffee or tobacco tins. It seems that most everyone who started collecting antiques may ...

Q: I’ve done Internet searches but cannot find any info on my two unopened cans of Chesterfield cigarettes from the 1950s. A: Images sent show that our reader indeed has two unopened round tins, each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A near mint condition chewing tobacco tin sold for $55K at a New Hamburg auction over the weekend. (John ...

I have had this cute tobacco tin for many many years. It is without its lid — sorry to say — so I use it in my kitchen to put clean S.O.S pads in it for handy use. It sits on top of my microwave with ...

Daniel Weiss built a collection of tins with lard, tobacco, tennis balls, razors — you name it, it’s for sale in Mountlake Terrace. MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Daniel Weiss is sure there is someone out there ...

In the 19th century, tins were used to store many products, including commodities such as tea, spices and snuff, because of their air tight seals that preserved freshness. Before the days of media ...

Advance bidding for a Canadian tobacco tin from the early 1900s is smokin’ hot, having already reached $29,000 for an item originally estimated to fetch a third of that price. And to think that the ...