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2. Biscuit tin - Wikipedia

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   Biscuit tins are steel cans [6] made of tin plate.This consists of steel sheets thinly coated with tin. The sheets are then bent to shape. By about 1850, Great Britain had become the dominant world supplier of tin plate, through a combination of technical innovation and political control over most of the suppliers of tin ore.

3. Decorative box - Wikipedia

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   A decorative box is a form of packaging that is generally more than just functional, but also intended to be decorative and artistic. Many such boxes are used for promotional packaging , both commercially and privately.

4. Cardboard box - Wikipedia

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   The Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut cardboard or paperboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention came about as a result of an accident: he was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, and one day, while he was printing an order of seed bags, a metal ruler ...

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6. Earthenware - Wikipedia

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   End applications include tableware and decorative ware such as figurines. Earthenware comprises "most building bricks, nearly all European pottery up to the seventeenth century, most of the wares of Egypt, Persia and the near East; Greek, Roman and Mediterranean, and some of the Chinese; and the fine earthenware which forms the greater part of ...

7. Pewter - Wikipedia

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   Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East.The earliest known piece of pewter was found in an Egyptian tomb, c. 1450 BC, [5] but it is unlikely that this was the first use of the material.