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Page 18 The Antique Shoppe July, 2018
BABY POWDER TINS

Prices Reflect Tins’ Rarity

BY LARRY LEMASTERS
LeMasters’ Antique News Service
Baby bottoms have never gone Corporation’s (of Rutherford, NJ)
out of style. If you don’t believe tin toy solder is highly sought after.
me, check the maternity ward of any In the early 1900s, Cadette offered
hospital. And one thing is certain, these tin soldier cans full of talcum
where there is a baby bottom there powder, but when the tins were
is baby powder. Baby powder or empty, they made excellent toys for
talcum powder is made from talc, girls or boys. 100 years after being
↑California Perfume Co. produced this a mineral comprised mainly of manufactured, a Cadette tin in good
Baby Powder tin around 1940. This tin is magnesium, silicon, and oxygen. condition is valued at $175.
valued at $125. And while vintage talcum powder Not all baby powder tins
tins are highly collectible today, I were manufactured for baby use.
must, in good consciousness, offer McKesson & Robbins Incorporated
a stern warning from the American of New York offered tins of baby
Cancer Society, “In its natural powder as far back as 1900. These
form, some talc contains asbestos, a tins were advertised for children or TOP-Beautiful, baby blue, Nylotis Baby
substance known to cause cancers in adults as: “... recommended for a Powder tin. Manufactured by NYAL
and around the lungs.” Be careful, soothing and non-irritating Toilet Company of Detroit, circa 1920s, this tin
mothers and fathers. Powder for infants. Alleviating is valued at $128. LEFT-Manufactured by
With that warning stated, vintage chafing in infants and stout Cadette Products Corporation, this Toy
talcum powder tins are more than adults. An After Shaving Talcum for Tin Soldier baby powder tin is valued at
$175. RIGHT-Rawleigh’s circus-themed
just collectible, they make cute unusually sensitive faces.” Expect Talcum tin is large, 14 ounces, and is
collections and hold their rather high to pay around $170 for one of these valued at $115.
values well. tins on today’s secondary markets.
Although sheet metal stamping The value of a talc container is Lastly, collecting baby powder
was first developed around 1815, it in the container, not its contents, so tins is a perfect hobby for the entire
was not until after World War I that since Talc absorbs moisture, which family, especially young girls who
United States industries seriously can lead to tin rusting, it is best to enjoy playing with dolls. Show your
began stamping out tin lithograph empty old talc tins, especially since, daughter a Mother Goose tin or your
containers. The earliest as already mentioned, not all talc is son a Cadette tin and you will have a
lithographed baby powder healthy to use. collecting buddy for life. And that is
tins were produced in the The values associated with old the only priceless collection most of
early 1920s and continued baby powder tins seem high, us will ever have.
on throughout the 1950s. but, as collectors know,
One of the earliest no one is making them ←“Mother Goose”
companies to manufacture anymore. The range for baby powder tin
talcum powder in collectible good condition tins is manufactured by the
tins was NYAL Company $110 - $170, but some Baby Health Products
of Detroit, Michigan. In are offered at much Company of New York.
the 1920s, NYAL offered higher prices. Recently, This tin is just 1 of 10
its baby powder, Nylotis, on eBay, a Mother known to exist, and it is
in beautiful, baby blue tins. Goose baby powder tin, valued at $1,000.
Today, a Nylotis Baby Powder manufactured by Baby
tin is valued at $128. Health Products of New
Easily the most expensive York, was offered for
talcum powder advertising sale at $1,000. That’s
tin is the “Mother Goose” THREE zeros. The seller
baby powder tin manufactured advertised the tin as “1 of
TOP-Bauer & Black Baby Talc, by the Baby Health Products 10 known to exist,”
circa 1935, has delightful graphics Company of New York in the so it is truly rare and ←Maroc Baby
Powder cools
and is valued at $80. early 1900s. Only ten of these truly expensive. hot bottoms.
If you are a novice
talc tins are known to exist
LEFT-Antique, McKesson & which explains the high value collector, be aware This vintage
Robbins Inc., of New York, baby of $1,000 placed on these tins that baby powder tins tin is valued at
$60.
powder advertising tin that is when one becomes available should only be gently
at auction. The body of this
washed and never
valued at $165. tin is a deep baby blue, and scrubbed. Also, other
RIGHT-Vintage Baby’s Balm tin Mother Goose and characters than washing the tin, ←This vintage Baker’s Nursery
Talcum Powder tin produced
made by Armour & Company are lithographed entirely leave it as you find it. by S. F. Baker & Company of
of Chicago. This tin, in excellent around the tin. Tins lose value when Keokuk, Iowa, is valued at
condition, is valued at $110. go, As baby powder tins repairs or repaints take $110.
Cadette
Products
place.