This is how it all began...
I have been collecting tins since the 1980's. Collecting was so different and so much more challenging before the internet. With so many different types of tins, I specialised mainly in cigarette and tobacco tins featuring lithograph pictures, from the period of the late 1890's to about the 1930's. To me they all tell interesting social stories of their day and I find them fascinating. In 2013 I found myself in Japan and was delighted to discover that flea markets and antiqu
