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back to school - vintage collectible lunch boxes

It’s that time of the year again when parents are looking forward to their kids returning to school and kids dreading the idea of having to return after having fun all summer. Although a lot of children brave the lunches by buying them in the cafeteria, a lot of others bring the good old standby, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, from home. How they carry those lunches to school is one of those things that epitomizes “the more things change, the more things stay the same” saying.

DUMB MIKEY

Mikey was playing Trivial Pursuit with his girlfriend one night and it was his turn. He rolled the dice and landed on Science and Nature. His question was, “If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it? After a few minutes of pondering the question, he asked his girlfriend, “Well this is a tough one, is the vacuum on or off?”

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madison-bouckville antiques market marred by robbery

By all accounts, the Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show is the biggest antiques show in New York State. The show which ended last Sunday was a huge success for many and included thousands of dealers and vendors from across the country and tens of thousands of visitors from around the world. The show covered more than ninety acres of picturesque farmland and included an appraisal alley, plenty of free parking with a locomotive pulled trolley to the gate and delicious food and drink.

Antiques Newsletter Archives – August 24, 2007 features articles about Vintage Collectibles Lunch Boxes; The Madison-Bouckville Antiques Market; A reproduction Victorian era Stone Lithograph; Napoleon’s Smashed Vase on Ebay and Vintage Postcards for the Collectors. Antiques Newsletter Archives – August 24, 2007 also highlights upcoming antiques shows & flea markets, antiques auctions and Estate & Tag Sales. NOVA-Antiques is the mid-eastern U.S. directory for all things antique and collectible.

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collecting vintage & antique postcards

Deltiolgy is the formal name for postcard collecting. It is one of the fastest growing and is rumored to be one of the largest collectible hobbies in the world and it is no wonder considering that postcard collecting can take many different angles. For example, postcard collectors can collect just black and white postcards or colored postcards. They can collect postcards of U.S. cities or towns, or European cities or towns. They can collect funny postcards or vintage holiday postcards. In any case, there are many subjects and collectors tend to migrate to different collections.

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Unfortunately, at the end of the show, a couple heading home to Northumberland, Pennsylvania was robbed of between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of jewelry and clothing. Police believe that the couple was followed about thirty miles, from the time they left the show to a Burger King parking lot where the stopped to eat. It has been reported that a man approached their van, smashed the side window and swiftly snatched jewelry boxes containing gold necklaces, brooches, pendants and watches as well as clothing. The police are still looking for the robber that got away in maroon colored van.

collectibles aucton - napoleon's vase on ebay

On April 8, 1927, the New York Times featured a story about a valuable porcelain vase that was about to be auctioned to settle a debt. But it was the vase’s colorful history that made the story truly newsworthy. Eighty years later, the vase is being auctioned again, this time on eBay for a minimum bid of $30,000.

In the early 1900’s lunch boxes were metal pails or re-used (read recycled) tin cans that formerly held biscuits, tobacco or sweets. As time progressed, the tin containers evolved into what most of us remember as being the box with our favorite cartoon, TV and movie characters and a matching thermos to hold our milk. One of my most memorable boxes had none other than the robot and Will Robinson from the Lost in Space television series. Some of these boxes have become very collectible today and are worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

There are two online auction sites that cater the dealers and collectors of postcards, delcampe.com and playle.com. Both of these online auction sites boast large inventory listings with Delcampe having over five million listings. Delcampe has also averaged over sales of over 100,000 postcards in recent months. The difference between these online auction sites and Ebay is that these sites do not charge dealers for hosting their listings and the final value fees are in most cases lower. If you are a deltiolgist, you may find that card you have been looking for on these sites.

victorian stone lithograph - recent estate sale find

We recently purchased a very beautiful vintage reproduction of a Victorian Era Stone Lithograph from an estate sale. The lithograph was made by The Old Print Factory in New Baltimore, Michigan. We were not able to turn up any other information about this company on our Internet research; however we did in fact find another site on the Internet offering new reproductions. Our stone lithograph is a wedding certificate and depicts the bride and flower girls in striking but subtle pink and blue hues. It measures about 16” x 11.5”. It is such a unique and unusual find that we are keeping it for ourselves and having a calligrapher enter our marriage date into it.