Huge vintage tin box collection with a royal flavour

(26 Jul 2013) Grand Hallet, Belgium, July 12, 2013 1. Close of tin box with picture of British majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra 2. Zoom out from close of British royals tin boxes to wide of boxes 3. Close of tin box with British flag and portrait of King George V 4. Wide pan of Yvette Dardenne barn in Grand Hallet, Belgium where she stores around 45,000 tin boxes out of her 56,000 tin boxes collection 5. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Dardenne, tin box collector: "I have several boxes of the British royal family, of the Dutch royal family, I have a few of the Tsar, so these ( the box designs) are not just things to do with Belgium, but Belgium chocolate manufacturers and biscuit manufacturers like to reproduce all royal families" 6. Close of boxes with portrait of the new Belgian King Philippe and his family 7. Medium of Yvette Dardenne holding boxes and saying (French) "I try nonetheless, overtime I buy boxes to empty, giving away what is inside.". 8. Close of boxes with Belgian King Albert II and Queen Paola 9. Close of box with King Philippe and family 10. Medium of Yvette Dardenne putting down boxes 11. Close of box with Dutch Queen Wilhelmina 12. Close of Dutch royal box 13. Medium tilt down of Dutch royal boxes 14. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Dardenne, tin box collector: "I wanted to be able to see my boxes, because you have some collectors who put everything in a drawer and display nothing, well I am the opposite, I like to share, and I think that it comes to life through people's eyes. So with the help of my husband I asked to renovate the buildings here in order to be able to see boxes in front, behind, on the left, on the right, on the top and on the bottom, so that we swim in the boxes" 15. Walk into main barn room storing 45,000 boxes 16. Close of Yvette Dardenne hands holding box with label 17. Medium of Yvette Dardenne holding big box shaped as rabbit 18. Wide pan of boxes in an old water mill renovated as an old grocery shop 19. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Dardenne, tin box collector: "You can not put a price (on a box), it depends on the offer and the demand, and if the seller knows that you are addicted to collecting he will take advantage of it. So you need to know how to be reasonable, how to say no sometimes� I am trying." 20. Wide of Yvette walking around boxes and accidentally stepping on a box on the floor and putting back where it belongs while saying (French) "It is me, who told you to be careful, who just did this!" 21. Close of Yvette showing a German coin bank from the second world war with German Luftwaffe plane on top, explaining (French) "It was to collect money for the Luftwaffe, it is a rare box, very rare, and that is why I have it, not because of politics". 22. Close of old Mickey Mouse cocoa box 23. Wide of Yvette arranging boxes on a coach 24. Close spanish Mickey Mouse box 25. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Dardenne, tin box collector: "I would see him (her late husband) open the safe to see if I had purchased something new, I was very uncomfortable with it so I would not keep any written trace, so I have no idea (of how much she spent), really no idea. But sometimes I would do things that would hurt my conscience. It was too much, really." 26. Wide pan of barn full of boxes 27 . Wide of Yvette Dardenne walking out of barn LEADIN A woman in Belgium has collected nearly 57 thousand vintage tin boxes. Among the rare finds - a coin box for Hitler's Luftwaffe, a box dipicting Mickey Mouse from Spain and the British royal family from more than a hundred years ago. STORYLINE Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...