Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage British

A Collection of Vintage British Tins and Parlour Games - An assortment of mid-20th-century British household and leisure items. The collection includes a large cylindrical tin lithographed in olive green and black for National Dried Milk, featuring the Royal Coat of Arms and text reading MINISTRY OF FOOD, NATIONAL DRIED MILK, and MODIFIED DRIED FULL CREAM MILK. A rectangular grey lithographed tea tin is marked LYONS RED LABEL TEA with a red and gold cartouche. Two small yellow pocket-sized tins are printed with SURE SHIELD IODISED THROAT LOZENGES. Two rectangular tobacco tins feature a gold leaf motif on a dark brown ground, marked NUT BROWN and ADKIN & SONS, LONDON. The games component comprises a Unison Pantograph in its original long cardboard box, featuring instructional diagrams and text reading ENABLED LARGE-SIZE DRAWINGS... TO BE MADE EASILY. A red and white box contains a Crossword Cubes Game. A red box with a blue and white label is marked KAN-U-GO REGISTERED THE CROSSWORD CARD GAME, FOR 2 TO 7 PLAYERS. An orange and red slipcase contains Lexicon The Wonder Game by Waddingtons. Two smaller card game or magic trick boxes are present, one titled THERE and BACK and the other MAGIC CARDS Mystifying! Amazing!. The lot is completed by a polychrome porcelain figurine of a woman dressed in a blue and white bodice, pink skirt, and white apron, carrying a basket of fruit.