http://www.tlcollectables.com Complete information on collectables, how to find, maintain, evaluate and insure these collectables. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:03:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_220" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vintage Lunch Box"][/caption] 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 the Victorian age, manufacturers began to produce tin food containers ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-metal-lunch-boxes [caption id="attachment_213" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vintage CocaCola"][/caption] 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 today. And, vintage signs are no different than vintage glass, toys ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-vintage-metal-signs [caption id="attachment_203" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="1901 $10 Bison"][/caption] 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, but it is becoming more popular every year. Most collectors fit ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-vintage-bank-notes [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vintage Avon Bottle"][/caption] 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 entice women into purchasing books. The perfume became so popular, ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-avon-bottles 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 while the glass is in molten form. Once cooled, metallic salts are sprayed onto the glass ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-carnival-glass [caption id="attachment_187" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vintage Christmas Ornaments"][/caption] 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 of their favorite ornaments that they've had for years. From a baby's ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-vintage-christmas-ornaments [caption id="attachment_182" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vintage Postcard"][/caption] 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 being surpassed by stamp and coin collecting! The proper name for postcard ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-vintage-postcards [caption id="attachment_174" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Antique Firearm"][/caption] 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 in history and have been around for centuries. At one time there ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collect-a-piece-of-history-with-antique-guns [caption id="attachment_163" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Vinyl 33 1/3 LP Record"][/caption] 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 matched by anything else! Collecting vintage and classic LP's ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/collecting-vintage-and-classic-records [caption id="attachment_152" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="McDonalds Happy Meal"][/caption] 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 shows up in one of the fast food chains. And, ... http://www.tlcollectables.com/fast-food-toys-arent-just-for-kids