Other collections?

[btphoto]

Not my collection, but it will be mine someday - lol!

This is my Mom's lunch box collection:

Many of the shelves are 2 and 3 boxes deep as she has multiples of many of them.

This is one of three exactly like it that started the whole thing:

What had happened is when I was about 12 we lived on top of three stores in Elmwood Park NJ. One of them was an old drug store, and the guy who owned it let my Dad clean out the basement, and whatever he found in there he could keep. Well, there was three of those lunch boxes brand new from the 50's !! The thermoses still had the cardboard inserts inside the glass inserts in them.

Well my Mom fell in love with them since she loved Roy Rogers as a kid. I got my Mom a book about lunch boxes, and another book that listed their current values, and it said those were worth about $850 in good shape. That was it - now we would go to flea markets all over looking for lunch boxes, and it took a good 10 years to build up that collection. My Dad passed away years ago, and now my Mom just likes displaying them but no longer collects any more.

Some day they'll be mine to put up on eBay and sell them for boombox collecting money, lol!!

Just thought I'd post them here. I'll have to get better photos next time I'm at my Mom's house.

 

[baddboybill]

Very cool collection Bill your mom has I remember those old lunch boxes. It was so cool to get a new one every year

 

[btphoto]

I remember moving from one town to another, and how sad I was when I learned that at this new school, lunch boxes were not cool - everyone brown bagged it, lol!

 

[tmlfan]

At one point I had 100+ lunch boxes as I bought a collection...but sold them all off.

I still want a beatles one someday...

 

[zorlac]

she has a nice collection. I remember having the bionic man, or, 6 million dollar man lunch box. I think the lunch boxes, especially the metal lunch boxes, will always be valueable on resale. It's not like baseball cards which were mass produced, lunch boxes were more limited and rare.

 

[btphoto]

she has a nice collection. I remember having the bionic man, or, 6 million dollar man lunch box. I think the lunch boxes, especially the metal lunch boxes, will always be valueable on resale. It's not like baseball cards which were mass produced, lunch boxes were more limited and rare.

I think she has 2 or 3 different versions of the 6 million dollar man box, not sure. Probably the most valuable ones she has are those Roy Rodgers boxes, mainly because of the amazing condition, and any of the Beatles ones that she has. All of them are metal except for a few that are the old padded vinyl ones.

 

[zorlac]

well when you go to reinvesting these please offer me dibs on one of the "6 million dollar man" boxes. I think I had a box from a tv show called "emergency 51"-out of the mid 70s. it was a show I watched but I have a faded memory of whether or not there was a lunch box for it.

 

[Zippy]

You should get her this!

 

[btphoto]

well when you go to reinvesting these please offer me dibs on one of the "6 million dollar man" boxes. I think I had a box from a tv show called "emergency 51"-out of the mid 70s. it was a show I watched but I have a faded memory of whether or not there was a lunch box for it.

Yep, I'm pretty sure she has that box too!

Some day I'd love to photo catalog them all, lol