Yvette's passion started 22 years
ago when her aunt gave her a decorated chocolate box from the late
1950s. Since then her unusual collection has grown to
56,800
A lithographed tin box made in
Japan contains a 16mm movie of Mickey Mouse. Other boxes contained
an eclectic mix of products such as biscuits, soap, tobacco, tea,
and medicine
Some of Yvette's tin boxes are
decorated with commercial advertising but others depict an event
such as a royal wedding or a moment in history
A lithographed tin box from the
19th century shows a bizarre prediction of how the world might look
in the year 2000
Vintage lithographed tin boxes,
designed to contain sandwiches for children's lunches, make up part
of Yvette's enormous collection in her house
A unusual box dating from the
20th century shows people of the Communist Party in Slovenia riding
in a bus
Vintage lithographed tin boxes
are stacked on top of each other in Yvette's home in Belgium.
Dardenne says the boxes are like a history book and describe the
major events of the last two centuries through their
illustrations
Illustrations of the cartoon
character Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends decorate vintage
lithographed tin boxes. Some boxes were used as toys, sandwich tins
or even a paper weight
Yvette Dardenne shows off three
tin boxes which were used as toy handbags by young girls in the
20th century
