American industrial workers have often carried their lunch in plain metal buckets. Since the mid-19th century, miners, factory workers, and other laborers have used sturdy dinner pails to hold hard-boiled eggs, vegetables, meat, coffee, pie, and other hardy fare.

This antique miner's lunchbox is an amazing red and on the outside shows the hard work of the miner(s) who carried his lunch in it every day. Measures 7" in diameter and 5"h.