Greg:  There are different styles of lids and some of the earlier
styles have have a corrugated bottom for lighting wooden matches.
Here are some references for you reading pleasure:


                            Tobacco Tin References

Draft September 1999 by Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer

Bergevin, Al
  1986 Tobacco Tins and Their Prices. Lombard, Illinois,
       Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 580 Waters Edge, 60148

Clemens, Kaye
  1973  Tobacco and Food Tins. A Price Guide. Volumne I. Kansas
        City, MO: Lamplighters Antiques, 306 West 80th Terrace, 64114

Challenger, James
  1989  Tobacco Tins Encyclopedia. Schiffer Publishing, ltd. ISBN: 0887401791.

Davis, Marvin, and Helen Davis
  1975  Collector's Price Guide to Bottles, Tobacco Tins, and Relics.
        New York, N.Y., Galahad Books, Revised edition.

Davis, Marvin, and Helen Davis
  1970  Tobacco Tins.  Old Bottle Collecting Publications, P.O. Box 276
        Ashaland, Oregon 97520

Kircher, Franklyn
  1984  Tobacco Pocket Tin Guide: Flats and Uprights. East Lansing, MI:
        636 Hillcreast Avenue, 48823

Rosnick, Stewart I., and Jules B. Selden
  1987  Rosnick and Selden's Cross Reference Guide to Tobacco Tins.
        Volumne I. Manchester, MA: 7 Big Rock Road, 01944.

Sewdberg, Robert W., and Harriett Swedberg
  1985  Tins 'n' Bins.  Wallace-Homestead Book Company, Greensboro,
        N.C., P.O. Box 5406, 27403


These references have been gleefuly plucked from Ben Rapaport's "The Global
Guide to Tobacco Literature", 1989, Privately Published, Reston, Virginia.

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:23:48 -0700, Greg Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of a way to date Prince Albert-type tobacco tins by their physical attributes? I've heard mention of the number of hinges/hinge pins meaning something, but I don't know the correlation between attribute and date. I've tried searching the Internet briefly for some sort of dating guide to tobacco tins, but couldn't find one. Perhaps someone who reads this can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
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