Tin=Money (1843); Glamazon

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GLAMAZON

   Today's New York Post has a special fashion supplement (although female models seem to be news every single day).
   "Glamazon" is mentioned.  That's also the name of a rock band.

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TIN=MONEY

LIFE IN TOWN,
OR, THE BOSTON SPY.
BEING A SERIES OF SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIVE OF WHIMS AND WOMEN
IN THE ATHENS OF AMERICA
by An Athenian
Boston: Redding and Company
1844
Copyright George W. Redding & Co., 1843

Pg. 8:
   He closes with a glowing eulogy on their exceeding modesty, and their respective amounts of "tin."  The latter subject is rather mundane, to be sure, but it is his crank of power: he knows, and turns it.  An angel may come from paradise.  Very well; has she any money?

(Gerald Cohen once asked about "tin."  The Cassell DS has mid-late 19th century.  I was looking for Boston baked beans--ed.)