A Collector’s Guide To Key-Wind Coffee Tins with Price Guide

Author: James H. Stahl · Year: 1991

This compact reference catalogs key-wind tins—the type opened with a small key that cut a scored strip—and pairs photographs with notes collectors use to tell variants apart. The included price guide reflects the market at publication (1991), so treat dollar figures as historical context, not live pricing. It is a practical shelf companion when you are trying to place a tin’s graphics, size, or hardware in the wider landscape of American coffee packaging.

Relevance to H&H

Digitization check (2026-07-21, reconfirmed 2026-07-22): no full-text-searchable copy found on Internet Archive, Google Books (listed with “No preview” — not even snippet-indexed), or HathiTrust — TODO-63’s in-hand read-through remains the only path to resolving this page. This title is also a price/variant reference rather than a narrative history, so an in-hand pass would be about matching H&H tins against Stahl’s typology (see the artifact page’s “Why it matters”), not a Hoffmann/Hayman name search.

[Curator note: how this resource relates to H&H research — does it mention H&H/Hoffmann/Hayman/San Antonio? What period does it cover? Which KB pages cite it?]

See also

• Public-facing resource page — same content, projected to the Jekyll site