A figural biscuit tin like this one is a kid’s dream: Finish the cookies it holds, and you have a new tin toy. Photo Credit: Auction Team Breker (c) 2025 by Cowles Syndicate Inc.
Biscuit tins could become toys
Biscuit tins, first made about 1830, were some of the earliest commercial food packages. The first tin toys were made about the same time. It wasn’t too long before clever designers found ways to combine the two. Tin packaging with colorful images always caught customers’ attention, and, while fashionable
art styles and scenes of foreign countries appealed to adults, children were drawn to tins sha…