Vintage Lunch Boxes

Vintage Lunch Boxes

Aug 8, 2004 | Collectibles

Collector carries nostalgia in vintage lunch boxes

HollandSentinel.com
08/08/04
By MIKE GENET
Special to The Sentinel

Photo by Randy Heinitz

“Mike Masters’ passion began with a Partridge Family find 12 years ago…
Masters has since amassed a total of 188 lunch boxes, most of them decorated television or movie characters, shelved all the way up three walls in the kitchen. The oldest one is from 1952, and his most valuable is a Looney Tunes box in near-mint condition, which Masters estimates could fetch $600. Some other notables are a trio of BeeGees boxes on a top shelf.”

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