Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Not a proper barrel then.
Yes it is. That's the correct term for it.
The posh Victorian ones were actually made in silver to look like miniature barrels (and the slightly less posh ones in plate), hence the term biscuit barrel. As back then, biscuits were bought loose from the grocer.
Was only towards the end of the Victorian era when tins became the norm. And then you get all the poncy collectable biscuit tins...