# Biscuit tin with roses

> Held buttons, then receipts, then nothing at all.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/biscuit-tin/

- Made by: Unknown tin printer
- Date: About 1950
- Material: Printed tinplate
- Size: 19 cm square
- Cost new: Came full of biscuits
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: The kitchen, in the second drawer

Every house had one. The roses have worn off the corners where it was lifted out of a drawer thousands of times. When it reached us it held fourteen bus tickets from 1968, a key that fits nothing in the house and a single tooth wrapped in paper.

We kept the contents together, in the archive, because a tin is only half an object without what someone decided to keep in it.