Tins Collection (page 2)

Tommy always likes a water in the right place
Photograph: Tommy always likes a water in the right place. One is enjoying a cold douche [shower] while the others scour their mess tins.One of 193 British

Soho, London - shop window display, with some rather dusty bottles and some tins of coffee. 1973

Cow & Gate Snap - Its plane to me - circa 1930s

Cow & Gate Snap - All over the World! circa 1930s

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Mr Feedus the Grocer. 1928

Greetings card in the shape of a sardine tin, Joseph Peneau, Conserves Alimentaires, Nantes. circa 1890s

Susi - with an overturned paint pot. 1950s

Metal Baking Tins
Spooning cake mix into baking tins in the shape of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs, to make cakes into playing card suits, perfect for serving at your Whist parties! Date: 1930s

Well-Stocked Pantry
A well-stocked pantry, full of cake tins, biscuits, tea, sugar, custard, semolina, breakfast cereals and lemon pie filling, etc. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Gordon & Dilworths Specialities - luxury foods. Date: early 20th century

Advertisement for Frys Cocoa & Milk Chocolate - I never travel without it. early 20th century

Cover design, Womancraft magazine, March 1975. 1975

Advert for Marshalls Cr譥De Riz, rice cream 1899
Mrs A. B Marshalls Cr譥 De Riz, rice cream, available in a tin, used for cakes, puddings blanc-manges, biscuits and soaps. Date: 1899

R T Parkins shop, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA, with Mr Parkin himself, the driver and a female assistant standing in the doorway, shortly before closing time. Date: 1909

Patient fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A party of benevolent philanthropists rewarding the patience of unfortunate fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Hut made of petrol tins, American Red Cross nurses, Serbia
A hut made of petrol tins for American Red Cross nurses in Serbia during the First World War. 1918

Toddler helping out in the kitchen
A toddler helping out in the kitchen with the pots and pans. Date: circa 1960s

Boys playing in a puddle, Balham, SW London
Two boys playing in a puddle on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Old Bill
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 Old Bill cartoon, pencil heightened with white, with signature. Date: 1917

Boy scouts fundraising, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), WW2
Boy scouts in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). They are collecting waste paper and old tins to help raise money for the War Fund, probably during the Second World War

Silhouette of girl and geese, Cremona advert
Silhouette of girl and geese by H.L. Oakley, advert for Cremona Dairy Cream Toffee. Oakley produced 38 groups of nursery figures which were printed in colour on the toffee tins

Advert for Min Cream, polish for furniture 1936
Its a matter of moments with Min. Use it on your piano or dining table and see what a beautiful, lustrous sheen it gives to polished wood. Date: 1936

Refugee boy scout in Mauritius
A Jewish refugee boy scout in Mauritius, carrying supplies for his patrol during an outdoor activity. He came from Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Date: circa 1940s

Dutch scouts washing up in a river, Holland
Dutch scouts doing the washing up in a river, Holland

German army medic or quartermaster, WW1
German army medic or quartermaster sitting at a table with items set out on shelves, and cutout images of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Crown Prince. Date: circa 1914

Wall plaque with ornate border - WWI
Wall plaque with ornate border showing plane, shells, parcels, tins, barbed wire, etc. Centre shows cartoon I likes me drop o rum. Good condition. Bairnsfather Ware

Wall plaque - A Memento of the Great War
Wall plaque with ornate border showing plane, shells, parcels, tins, barbed wire, etc. Centre shows cartoon I likes me drop o rum. A Memento of the Great War on base. Bairnsfather Ware

Scouts with Coronation programmes
Two Scouts with supplies of Coronation programmes and collection tins at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

Overheard in an Orchard by Bruce Bairnsfather
Overheard in an Orchard Said the Apple to the Plum: " Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask us what we did in the great war

British soldiers keeping warm, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers keeping warm round an oven on the Western Front during World War One. Tins of food are being heated up ready for their meal. Date: circa 1916

The Leap to Tin Salmon Blower by Heath Robinson
Another convoluted contraption from the gadget king William Heath Robinson, showing how salmon are tinned in Scotland, part of a series in the Illustrated Sporting

Russian Communal Kitchen
Seven women busying themselves around a stone work top adorned with an array of large tins and pots in a 1920s Russian communal kitchen. Date: 1920 s

Advertisement for Batchelors Peas
The Pick of the Crop. Advertisement for Batchelors Peas - " Its the flavour thats in favour". Date: 1930s

Women in fancy dress collecting for charity
Three women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933

International Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of The International Stores at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing biscuit containers (Mitre Biscuits) in front of the counter, and stacks of tins and packets on shelves behind. 1963

Mutual Film Company, New York
Mutual Film Company, 1600 Broadway, New York. Film storage room at the Mutual Film Co. with poster of Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1918

Australian troops at dinner, Fleurbaix, France, WW1
1st Australian Division troops at dinner in the open air at Fleurbaix, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1916

Two prisoners of war captured by Canadians, WW1
Two young prisoners of war with tins hanging round their necks, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 23 April 1918

TIN OPENER
A tin opener, handy for opening tins of Carnation Evaporated Milk and Pork Farmhouse Pate! Date: 1974

Grocery Store - A G Westway - Devon, selling everything and anything by the look of the window display! The proud shopkeeper stands before the shop in a spotless white apron

Shoppers at a Grocery Store
Elderly shoppers at a Grocery Store

A Spooner Travelling oven
A immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine

Petrol can dump
A water filled petrol tin dump in Elvendinghe on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Grocers shop by Percy Macquoid
Engraving to accompany a story in the Graphic ( Madame Leroux ), showing a typical interior of a grocers shop during the late 19th century

Ww1 / Grenades
British troops making hand grenades using discarded tobacco tins during WW1

Baileys Grocery Store and shopkeeper
Baileys Grocery Store and the proud shopkeeper, assessing the weeks window display. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Huntley Xmas Biscuits
Huntley and Palmers new Christmas Biscuit Tins

Staff of Co-Op Grocers
The staff of the Co-Op grocery store lined up behind the counter

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