The object
The form is old. Cases like these sat in coat pockets and handbags for most of the last century, built to be carried every day for years rather than replaced every season. Nothing about the shape needed improving. What we changed is what goes on the lid.
Roughly 96 x 78 x 18 mm. Snap clasp, rounded corners, lined interior. Around 8 to 10 cards down one side, folded notes or earbuds down the other. It opens with one hand and shuts with a click.
The artwork
Every tin carries a design. Woodcuts and engravings that fell out of copyright centuries ago. Belle Epoque advertising posters. Victorian botanical plates, celestial charts, art nouveau panels, Japanese woodblock prints.
None of it was made to sell anything to you. Most of it was made to sell something to somebody who has been dead for a century. We chose the ones we would hang on a wall, then put them somewhere they get handled instead.
Chrome
Not everything needs a picture on it. The chrome cases are the same object with the artwork taken out. Brushed steel, ruled lines, engraving where it earns its place.
For the pocket that wants the case and not the conversation.
Wear
A relic is only an object that outlived its moment. Yours will pick up marks. The metal dulls where your thumb sits, the corners soften, the print thins at the edges.
That is not damage. It is the one part of the object we cannot make for you.
How we work
Free worldwide shipping on every order, no minimum. Orders leave in 1 to 2 business days and arrive 3 to 9 business days after that. Everything is tracked.
Thirty days from delivery to send anything back, unused and in its original packaging. If it arrives damaged, send a photo. We replace it or refund you in full, and we do not ask for it back.
Write to hello@minorrelics.com and a person reads it. Replies inside one business day.
We do not sell, promote or endorse tobacco, cannabis or controlled substances.
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