Table of Contents

The biscuit companies /Tinplate /The tin-box manufacturers /Decoration /Shop display /Tins 1868-1918 /Tins 1919-1949 /Tins 1950-1980 /Sample tins /Further reading /Places to visit

About the Author

Tracy Dolphin has been collecting biscuit tins since 1982. She studied the history of design at Brighton Polytechnic, concentrating on the twentieth-century design and architecture, and graduated in 1989. While there, she wrote her dissertation 'Biscuit Tins: Design, Manufacture and Social Contect 1860-1914'.