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Collecting Metal Lunch Boxes
There was a time when almost every child carried their lunch to school in a metal lunch box. The idea of a lunch box has been around since the early or middle 1800′s. During
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Collecting Vintage Metal Signs
Vintage items just have an attraction that modern day products can’t match. Whether it’s for the memories or the old world style, vintage items just have a whole different personality than new ones produced
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Collecting Vintage Bank Notes
While coin collecting has been a widely popular hobby for decades, until recently paper money wasn’t quite as popular. There still aren’t near as many collectors of paper money as their is of coins,
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Collecting Avon Bottles
At 16, David H. McConnel was a door to door salesman that sold books. He wasn’t seeing much success in sales and began handing out samples of perfume he’d created as a way to
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Collecting Carnival Glass
The much loved iridized coating that creates carnival glass began appearing in the early 1900′s. Carnival glass is pressed with the use of a mold. Iron molds are used to create the beautiful patterns
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Collecting Vintage Christmas Ornaments
Vintage Christmas Ornaments: A Collection of Christmas Past Even if you don’t consider yourself a collector, you probably have a collection of Christmas ornaments! Anyone that celebrates the Christmas season generally has several boxes
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Collecting Vintage Postcards
Collecting Vintage Postcards Is The Third Largest Hobby! Collecting vintage postcards is a much loved hobby enjoyed by people around the world. Postcards rank as the third largest collectable items in the world, only
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Collect a Piece of History With Antique Guns
Guns have had a pretty extensive and sorted history. They’ve saved lives and taken lives as new frontiers were settled. They’ve won wars and fed families on daily hunts. They’ve made their mark forever
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Collecting Vintage and Classic Records
Technology may keep advancing and cassettes might get replaced with CDs, but the old vinyl LP’s won’t ever go out of style! For many people the sound of the old records just can’t be
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Fast Food Toys Aren’t Just For Kids
Anyone can be a big collector of fast food toys, but the simple truth is that most avid collectors are grown ups! With every new movie, video game or comic book a new toy
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