| Unlce Odas and myself had a conversation about the 'Prince Albert' tin and he relayed to me that Grandpaw had took a 'Prince Albert' can, pulled the bottom off of it, cut down the rest of the can and put these together for a match tin! Odas said that "Dad carried that tin till the paint wore off!" |
| Well that story got my 'marbles a turnin" So with the 'magic of Ebay' again I got me a can and decided to try my hand at the ol' match tin! (pictured above you can see the parts of it, next to one that was made by somebody that knew what he was doing!) |
| Pictured above(on the left of the photo) is the 'cut down' job that I have! Now you notice the regular size tin that has a little 'doo-hickey' hangin' off of it? Well this is also rare and it slides on the botton of the tin to hold matches! If you look you can see the 'striker' on the side. |
| The following photo's of Prince Albert stuff all have a patent from 1907 but can be from any time frame between 1910-1930's! |
| Above (left) is one of Grandpa's pipes pictured with a can represented in the advertisement on the above right! |
| Here is one of my favorites, it is post 1926 by the tobacco stamp. It is full and still sealed! Below is the back of the older tins. (click photo to go back) |
