Old Tins

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So, I've collected way too many empty tobacco tins over the years, and I can't bring myself to throw them away. I know some antique tins are sold to collectors on eBay but what about more recent tins? What about you guys? Do you toss old tins or keep them?


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Also, a box frame might work by stacking the tins on top of each other to display the tops and closing the back... Just thinking out loud...
Personally, I can’t see a small container without thinking how it’d be just right for organizing fishing tackle or bow hunting hardware, packing some bulk tobacco from a jar for a day trip, etc etc. So I hang on to them “just in case”. I have to be pretty ruthless with myself to get rid of such.
I’m exactly the same way. However, we are moving and trying to thin where we can. It’s painful but I probably will get rid of them unless I have a pretty solid reason to keep them. I may use a couple as fly boxes for my fishing vest. The rectangular tins would be perfect with some cut out foam lining the bottom.
I don't save everyone of my tins or cigar boxes for that matter, but I keep some empties around just in case.
Also, I save some tins for their age, style, and artwork as part of a collection of tobaccana related articles.
The neighborhood kids come by to eat peanuts and sit with me when I smoke and love to choose their favorites.
The other tin is an old Orlik tin. Being a person that likes to see how things “tick”, I saw this tin with a weird valve/slide/lock? device on it, I had to have it just to see if I could figure out how it works, what it was for?
It has a kind of “cutter” on the inside that will slide center to edge and back. I do not think it was any kind of a valve? I know this is a long shot because I think it is probably older than anyone left here, but has anyone seen how one of these tins “worked”? I can see the remnants of the tape seal adhesive around the outside, and it looks like it may have been tin soldered around the edge of the can/lid, but I think it may have been to hold the rounded over crimped edge down so it was more sturdy and also not sharp. And not for any kind of sealing.
Anyone out there with knowledge of how this tin “worked”?
I think I have finally determined the “old codger” blend awesome rock hard cakes that I have cleaned out of a multitude of estate pipes. There was still a bit of tobacco in the tin and the aroma was exactly what I have cleaned out of those pipes. This is the first Prince Albert I have had the chance to smell. I have been meaning to grab a pouch or two, but have not found any around here. I keep forgetting to order some, that and Carter Hall and Grainger, need to get me some of each. The EBay jamoke that shipped this, shipped it in nothing but a small bubble, bubble bag, no box🤨. It got a big dent in it in shipping, go figure😖. The cheap-assed idiot. Maybe I’m a dumbass for paying for it and not sending it back…not worth the trouble or the shipping to return it….bastard!
No Kings Cut, unfortunately!
Wow. Never as in never ever?
Spaghetti yes, but not Ragu! Say it isn't so! 🍝
Yep!