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Lunchbox has a tobacco past  

DEAR COLLECTOR: Enclosed is a photo of tobacco tin in very good condition. My 92-year old brother-in-law informed me he had carried his lunch in such a box.

ANSWER: A common practice until the 1920s and perhaps later, recycling tins which once held various products (though tobacco was high on boys' lists) was almost a necessity in an earlier frugal and practical society.

Kimball of Rochester, N.Y., who marketed Pedro Plug, opened shop in the mid-1860s, eventually becoming one of the largest tobacco concerns in the country.

Because your tin looks up to snuff, value could be as high as $100.

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