Vintage Lunch Boxes

The fundamental concept of a lunch box has been available since the 1900s, however it wasn't before the 1950s and 1960s they grew to become a marketable product. Television transformed the once ordinary lunch box in to the hot collectible that it's today. TV introduced countless popular figures and shortly these figures were turning up on lunch boxes. The lunch box that each child transported are actually highly collected because of their colorful design.

The golden chronilogical age of eco friendly lunchbox production was from 1950 to 1987. Baby-boomers with nostalgia for his or her childhoods trivia love this particular unusual popular collectible. Lunchboxes restore lots of recollections, which explains why people respond. The majority of the 120 million boxes offered between 1950 and 1970 were decorated with images from popular tv shows.

The very first lunch box to have a popular character was the Hopalong Cassidy box released by Aladdin in 1950. This lunch box was an instantaneous success and rapidly brought towards the discharge of other character lunch boxes. Popular TV stars from western to space heroes and cartoon figures were portrayed on lunch boxes.

Aladdin and Thermos were the 2 primary manufacturers through the years. The very first lunch boxes were created of steel in the mid 1980s when plastic boxes grew to become standard. A few of the popular lunch boxes include: A-Team, Adam 12, Addams Family, Annie Oakley, Archies, Astronaut, Barbie dolls, Battlestar Galactica, Bee Gees, Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Brady Bunch and Buck Rogers. Prices of these boxes vary from $20.00 to $400.00. Condition is essential to value. Rust, chipped paint, dents, scratches and missing latches or handles reduce their value. Lunch boxes using the original thermos bottle adds value.

Prior to the Internet, collectors searched for vintage lunch boxes at yard sales, thrift stores, and antiques shops looking for lunch boxes featuring Happy Days, G.I. Joe, Zorro and Disney figures. However with Web access, tracking lower your preferred lunch box takes however a couple of clicks with internet sites for example eBay.

Glyn Farber has printed a catalog of known Hickey Brother Cigar Store Tokens and co-authored a magazine about Louisiana Trade Tokens. Additionally he authored several articles for that Token and Medal Society (TAMS) and also the National Token Collectors Association (NTCA). Glyn is a devoted collector of Louisiana Trade Tokens, Louisiana collectibles and Lake Charles, LA postcards for nearly 4 decades.