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Your Lunch Box May Be a Collectible
By Mary Emma Allen
Lunch boxes come in all shapes and sizes nowadays and are made from a
variety of materials, so different from the metal lunch boxes of my
childhood. My grandchildren have plastic, cloth or canvas ones. My uncle
carried the large black laborers' type with rounded top. My grandfather
took lunch in a small metal box (which I still have) when he worked in
the woodlot in the early 1900s.
Lunch Box Collectibles
Many lunch boxes have become collectibles nowadays, especially the metal
ones made before the 1980s when they were discontinued in favor of
plastic.
Numerous lunch boxes centered around Saturday morning TV themes so are
the height of nostalgia.
Thermos bottles, too, are included as collectibles. The lunch box is
considered more valuable if it comes with matching thermos. However, most
collectors will accumulate them separately.
Bring Back Memories
As you look at lunch boxes, either in pictures, in collections and
displays, or in
flea markets, most people are captivated by those that bring back
memories of their
own childhood. The designs catching your attention will be those found on
the lunch boxes you and your friends used.
Lunch Box Types
What are some of the memorable lunch boxes collectors seek or bring back
memories?
Think of Superman, Howdy Doody, G.I. Joe, Batman, the Jetsons, Dick
Tracy,
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Trigger, Robin Hood, Flipper, Space Cadet,
Snow White,
Barbie, Twiggy, Peanuts, and many more.
Related Lunch Box Collectibles
Among the lunch box collectibles you'll encounter blueprints for boxes
and thermoses, cardboard store displays, catalog pages, proof sheets,
comic strips showing
characters carrying lunch boxes, and pamphlets of recipes for lunch box
menus.
(c)2001 Mary Emma Allen
About the Author
Mary Emma Allen has been writing columns on cooking and nostalgia for
more than 30 years for a variety of publications. Visit her web site for
more information about her columns and books at http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/jetent/mea.
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