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Cindy1Trea…
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Vintage Tobacco Tin, Not sure really how old this is? Just another little find in a unit. I would like to know how old this is? Thanks!
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Tobacco TinsOffset lithography was developed in the 1870s and patented in 1875 to creat…
Actually just bought my brother same tin let me no wht info u get. Real nice
A patent date will not date the can I'm afraid. They still were producing these some 30 years ago. Here are completed listings. As you can see there is only one true old one here, and it does not look like yours.
http://www.ebay.com/csc/Tins-/38053/i.html?LH_Complete=1&_trkparms=65%253A13%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1&rt=nc&_nkw=prince+albert&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=16&_sc=1
By the way only the green amounts are those that sold. The red is not sold
There were piles of these behind my grandfather's barn, rusting away..along with a few "Velvet"s, "Edgewood"s.. and Half and Half...He "rolled his own"...my other grandpa smoked pipes..and preferred the Velvet and Prince Albert long cut..
Cindy just a guess by the style of the lid it can be from the 20's thru the 40's in the 50's they had a recessed lid then is the 60's they have a recessed lid with a bar code on the side if I am wrong I am sure more experts on this site will be along to correct me... Happy hunting
So you do have Price Albert in a can(sorry couldn't resist).
Thanks guys, there is no bar code.. and yes Prince Albert in a tin! lol
I just saw some Collier's weeklys today that had ads for this very style tin dated 1919.
We have a prince albert tobacco "crimp cut" with tobacco inside. Looking to see how much it's worth.
Tracy, How can I say this easily, but you are looking at probably the most common pocket tin ever made. If the Prince is on both sides it’s a newer one and probably from the mid 50’s. If the prince is only on the front side then it’s from before the 50’s. If you had a tax stamp with a “Series 100” that would date it as a 1930, 101-1931, 102-1932 and so on. This tax stamp ended with “Series 125” =1955. If you want to see many variations of these go to this link: http://www.mygerardinc.com/avpa.html
You can also see my post on this site at:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/17699-some-of-my-prince-albert-pocket-tins?in=user
Prior to 1930 they had actual stamped dates in ink on the tax stamp itself. The earliest can go back as far as the early 1900’s. Now if you do come across one of the “Now King” see this link: http://www.mygerardinc.com/images/pa/paking.jpg
This is a rare Prince Albert and worth in the high hundredths $. It was made only for a year or two and then I think he died soon after he became king.
BTW if you see the short ones that are about an inch to 2 inches tall and are claimed as Salesman Samplers is a bogus claim. They are actually regular pocket tins that were cut down and used as Match Safes