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Can someone give me info on this needle tin.Age,make,etc.....It's great looking but other than being from Europe????........

"Nadeln" is German for "needles", so I suppose the tin in German or Austrian. Other than that I can't say.

Well now we know.....It was made in 1911 by a company in Germany called "Reingruber".So,it is a 100 year old needle tin.According to the man in Europe.....very hard to find in clean condition.

The full name of the manufacturer of this nice Bavarian tin is: Schwabacher Nadel- und Federfabrik Fr. Reingruber. Reingruber was the largest German manufacturer of tins. 1911 is only the date of introduction. The tin was manufactured for several years.

I have a picture of Reingruber and his charming wife.

Starkton wrote:...and his charming wife.

Yikes!

I often wonder how these companies come up with thier names.

- What does an airplane have to do with phono needles?
- Same question for "Dog and Baby" needles and others I can't think of now...

WAIT!!!!.If you pull the hair off HER?? head and move it down to HER?? face.....it's him!!!!!LOL!!!!.It's a good thing they never put her mug on a tin.Especialy for face cream!!!!!
Whenever I look at this tin I keep humming that song.....Those magnificent men in their flying machines.They go up,up,up,up.They go down,down,down,down. .

Here is another version in English.Were these both made around the same time??.

The airplane is almost certainly supposed to be a picture of Louis Bleriot's famous monoplane. This was the machine that became the first to fly across the English Channel in 1909 thereby winning the Daily Mail Newspaper's prize of 1000 pounds...which was quite a pot of cash in those days. It garnered lots of publicity at the time which is why I suspect the image was used on the needle tin: to bask in reflected glory!

This image seems almost the model for the cover of the tin!

http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive/ ... ilette.jpg

Jim