This little tin has had my pins in for as long as I can remember. Before I married definitely. Probably from the time of Needlework lessons at Grammar School.
At the weekend I called in at the Yoxford Antiques Centre (As seen on BBC Antiques Road Trip last week) on my way to Youngest Daughter's. There was a ton of Kitchenalia and expensive things but one of the people selling there had a shelf filled with old tins including the twin of my pin tin. Of course I recognised it straight away. So picked it up to find a price.... ... £5!
.So my very old pin tin is worth £5! now I know what to do with it if I ever get hard-up!
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My mum had a pin tin, and a button tin - don't know what happened to them. I keep buttons, although I use them in cardmaking. Wonder if things like that - keeping buttons and zips from old clothes, which Mum also did - will be revived now that we're encouraged to re-use?
ReplyDeleteI have a button tin too it's full of old buttons in old fashioned colours
DeleteI have mum's old pin tin and now it is my pin tin. It is an old elastoplast tin when plasters came in a tin with a hinged lid, later ones didn't have the hinged lid but a separate one.
ReplyDeleteIs it a sort of a brown colour - seem to remember Mum had her pins in something like a plaster tin too
DeleteYes, it is so dirty it is hard to judge what exactly the colour is. Dark red or brownish.
DeleteJust read Sooze's comment about buttons, I have a button tin and keep buttons off old clothes and assumed everybody did. No revival needed here.
ReplyDeleteMy button tin weighs a ton, I add buttons but rarely need to use them for anything
DeleteMum's button tin was like that. My niece asked for it when mum died, so she now has it. My button tin is not so full.
DeleteHow fun to see the pin tin. I also still have one from when I took sewing in Home Ec. class. Mine is the same size with a hinge and originally held cough drops. I also have always kept a larger tin for all the buttons I have saved through the years. I remember playing with my Grandmother's buttons and my grandchildren played with mine in the past as well.
ReplyDeleteThe pastilles in this tin would have been for coughs and sore throats too
DeleteMy pin tin was Erinmore Flake tobacco. These days i use pin cushions. Saving zips is definitely a thing. Ebay has helped the likes of charity shops to sell to a wider audience and some strip the zips out of garments too worn to sell, and sell the zips in sort of pot luck bundles. I've bought 90% of my zips like that for years (use them on bags, pockets, kids clothes etc). The Age UK shop i used to support also sold the baled rags to a collection business. Nothing wasted if they could find a way to make money out of it.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember tobacco tins - labelled Gold Flake were often used for nails,screws and small bits in Colins workshop a long time ago
DeleteThat's fun to hang on to and see how it increases in value, people love things like this right now so it could shoot up like your follower stats!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone would actually spend £5 to buy it - I know I wouldn't!
DeleteI used to have a pin tin but kept stabbing myself each time I tried to remove a pin so I made myself a pin cushion.
ReplyDeleteI have my mother in law's old biscuit tin full of buttons, most of which are hers from the 1950s and 1960s !
Lots of buttons in my button tin date back to the 50's 60s and maybe even before too
DeleteFor some reason I have always been attracted to and collected old tins - my friends think it odd but maybe it will be worth a bob or two - not that I would ever part with them. I am not sure how old the oldest will be 1920 /30's at a guess.
ReplyDeleteThey sometimes go well on the TV antiques programmes. I still keep my garden seeds in a very old biscuit tin
DeleteI don't have a pin tin full of pins any more but I do still have the tin I did use. It was an Allenbury's blackcurrant capsules tin. I wonder if they're still made? I do have many, many pin cushions. I just went to my sewing room to count them and I have 8 in there - 4 pairs for 4 different kinds of pins. I know there are at least 3 in my footstool in the livingroom too. My excuse/reason is that I am a prolific sewer. I'm always sewing something. I also have masses of buttons - 14 boxes to be exact. They're sorted into colours so, if I want to find blue buttons, I don't have to search through them all. Means I have more time for sewing! 🤣
ReplyDeleteYou sound very organised!
Deletemy pins reside in an old red Elastoplast tin ive dozens of tins ive always collected them for storage and some do have a bit of value these days
ReplyDeleteThere were plenty of allsorts of old tins for sale at the antiques centre. I'm not a huge fan of collecting rust!!
DeleteAh, but would someone actually PAY £5 for that tin I wonder?
ReplyDeleteRecently we were in the antiques place we used to have a unit in back in the day. One stand had a little copper jug, probably Victorian, of the sort I would sell for perhaps £20 at most. Price tag - £78. I think that will become an old friend to them!
That's exactly what I thought. It's the same as when people selling at car boot sales say " it's ?? on ebay" and I think - yes but only if someone buys it!
DeleteI don't have a pin tin, but I do have a large vintage biscuit tin full of buttons and some buckles.
ReplyDeleteMy pin tin and button tin are both old but my needle tin once belonged to one of the children - it has teddies on it
DeleteOoooh - a pin tin twin! Try saying that after a couple of G&Ts!!
ReplyDeleteBeth and I have a whole load of buttons inherited from Mum who had them for decades. One day we might get round to sorting them all out.
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I thought the grandchildren might like to play with and sort my buttons but I think they'd rather watch TV!
DeleteI have a pin tin too! Mine was my Mom's and it once held "Sleepytime herbal tea". I got my Mom's button collection too and the button collection from my father-in-law which I have sorted all together. I have them in little plastic drawers organized by size. I have tried to use them in little craft projects but often end up cutting them off again and putting them back into their little drawers! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to keep things passed down the family
DeleteI am pleased you weren't tempted to sell it - I am sure it is an old favourite.
ReplyDeleteI'd have nothing for my pins if I sold it!
DeleteEven the simplest things can be special...I love the idea of handed down items that bring back memories. Mary
ReplyDeleteNo pin tin, but a very large button box started I know at least from my grandmother not sure if it came down to her. as a kid I loved playing in the button box.
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I have no pin tin but I do have a pin cushion that belonged to my mother. I also have a button box that belonged to a Great Aunt. She made all her own clothes and saved buttons for a lifetime. Some of the buttons are quite unique and old world.
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