TINNED IRON

Alexander Clark's patent mechanical fire bellows in tinned iron with a turned mahogany flywheel. The Patent was registered in 1833

A tinned-iron cheese follower or chesil with retailer's brass label of John Edward Ponting, Furnishing Ironmonger, High Street, Malmesbury, 19th Century

A Britannia-metal coffee pot by James Dixon, Sheffield, the prototype for the tinned iron examples

A coffee pot made entirely of tinned iron with maker's badge of Matthew J Hart, Birmingham, second half 19th century

A tinned-iron coffee pot with Britannia-metal spout and handle, maker's badge of J. H. Hopkins & Sons, Birmingham, second half 19th century

A late Georgian very large tinned-iron fish kettle of oval form, Fuller's Patet, Jermyn Street, St James's, London 

A 19th-century tinned-iron flour sieve

A 19th-century tinned-iron ale muller with retailer's label of John W Newell, Ironmonger & Implement Agent, Presteigne

A 19th- or early 20th-century tinned-iron milk can sold by J. Lear & Sons, 5 & 6 Horsemarket, Darlington

A 19th-century tinned-iron meal scoop sold by S.P. Wood Ltd, General Ironmongers, Paragon St, Hull

A 20th-century tinned-iron Morton's Patent Household Whisk, with interior paddles

A 20th-century anonymous tinned-iron tongue press