Thrifting is an economical way to find vintage and rare products, like tinware. These metal items are typically made of tinplate, a combination of steel and tin. While first appearing as early as the ...

The image shown here might surprise you: It is not a bookshelf full of books. It is an antique tin box that held cookies (called biscuits) in England about 1905. Grocery stores in the past were very ...

For collectors of retro kitchenware, vintage cookie jars are a prized find that can often command impressive prices. Not only are they a functional piece of storage, but they’re often intricately made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cookie lovers need a tin. Or two. Or 30. That’s how many Conrad Biernacki has amassed. He keeps his favourites on the kitchen counter. The basement, meanwhile, is lined with bookshelves and “filled to ...

Who among us doesn't love the occasional thrift store jaunt every now and then, or a little browsing of an estate sale? As the old saying goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure," and that ...

Although it’s tough to get into the holiday spirit when it’s still technically summer, sometimes Costco rolls out deals that are simply too good to pass up. One of these early finds is already ...

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 ...