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Winners who came to claim their prizes received empty bottles or blackened tinware from the store’s inventory of old junk.

“They are soon glad enough, however, to retreat from the shower of whisky, beer and pop bottles and dilapidated tinware.”

But before all that, Lininger was a successful tinware salesman in Peru, Illinois.

This antique-hunting show’s 22nd season kicks off with an episode in Harrisburg, Pa., with rare objects including a Pennsylvania Dutch tinware coffee pot.

Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the durable, light tinware once considered a poor man’s ceramic.