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from: JOHN GIANNINI
date: 1996-10-03 05:30:00
subject: Collecting

I figured since I've mentioned in the last few messages so much stuff that I 
collect, I might as well post a list of what else I am looking for, in case 
anyone out there has any fo this stuff.  Where to begin...
Toys, 1930's-1970's: Board games, Die Cast metal, TV/Movie themed, Disney
   toys, Matchbox cars, Corgi toys, Tonka Toys, metal tractors, marbles,
   railroad cars or train sets, creative toys like Lite Brite, Spirograph,
   etc, hand puppets, etc.
Depression Glass - list already posted
Carnival Glass - list already posted
Fiestaware & Riviera - any pieces, any color (especially like Riviera)
Chocolate Glass and Custard Glass
Fenton glass
"End of Day" or "Splatter" glass
Postcards, antique, greeting, ethnic, nudes
books - orig. Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, (1930's), children's books,
   particularly all the sizes of "Golden Books" (Little, big, tiny),
   illustrated fairy tales, fable treasuries, etc.
Cigar Box art and cigar boxes, especially the nice ones with embossed and
   foiled cover art
Fruitbox Art, particularly apples, pears, tomatoes, peaches, nectarines, etc.
Movie lobby cards and theater posters, almost any
Rock concert posters & artwork, pre 1975.  Almost any.
Records: LPs and 45s, 1940's through 1970's.  Rock, R&B, Jazz, particularly
    60's "psychodelia" on LP or single; childrens records, especially
    Disneyland records (the label), childrens records (Cricket, Golden
    Records, (45's) Red Raven movie records); 1970s/80s picture discs;
    78's too, especially jazz and foxtrots, Italian accordion, and 12"
    classical "albums"; Soundtracks and Original Cast, Bootleg albums
    from the 70's or 80's - almost any, and Beatles stuff of course.
Non-sport trading cards.  Movies, TV shows, Comic Images "Fantasy artist"
    sets and adult cards, anything non-sport.
Men's Neckties from the 30's and 40's.  Those colorful "fathers Day
    gifts" are now collectible.  30's and 40's ties were brightly
    colored, and often even had scenes like lions, hula girls, or surreal
    artwork, music bars, etc. on them.  Art in silk, this stuff is.  I'd
    be interested in *any* anyone has!
Magazines: Any pre 1940 National Geographics, pre-1955 Science Fiction
    pulps, pre-1920 Popular Science/Mechanics magazines, pre-1970
    Playboys, almost ANY 1960's or before "girlie" magazines, (Caper,
    Cavalier, Man's World, etc),  any pre-1970 XXX porno magazines
    and/or nudist/Jaybird magazines, any issue of "Black Cat", the late
    1890's short story literature magazine, "Hobbies" or "Collector's
    World" magazines from the 1960's or before, TV guides before 1980,
    Mad Magazine, Eerie, Creepy, etc. from the 70's or before, and
    probably a bunch more I can't think of right now.
TV show and movie memorabilia, especially from 60's shows like Batman,
    Lost In Space, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Man from
    Uncle, Monkees, Green Hornet, etc.
Lunch pails from the 60's and 70's, mostly the metal "Addadin" company
    stuff.  Generally these were TV or movie themed.
Halloween Costumes, any costumes or paper masks from the 50's through the
    mid 70's.  Also again, especially TV and movie themed costumes.
Kitchen/house product paper collectibles, 1960's and before.  Boxes of
    paper straws, bluing balls, detergents, cleansers, soaps, spice bottles
    or tins, kitchen containers (glass or tin), electric or hand op count-
    ertop appliances, food and food boxes, cereal boxes, canned food cans,
    food or storage tins of any kind, Dixie cups (the colored ones from
    the 60s, I think they were red, yellow, green and purple with a little
    flower-leaf design in white near the lip of the cup), and probably a
    lot more I'm forgetting.
Old cloth (linen) tablecloths and napkins, holiday table decorations, etc.
Soda water bottles and bottle caps, especially bottles of Pepsi, Coke,
    Birley's Orange, Squirt, Dr. Pepper, 7-up, etc.  Also looking for
    colored fruit drink bottles still unopened of "Keyorea", which came
    in 5 flavors, circa 1972-75 (it's logo was a Koala bear) and Calso
    water bottles from the 70's or before.  I also collect Jim Beam
    bottles (elegant decanters)!
Unopened foods:  Borden's "Frosted Shakes" from mid 70's, and at least
    an open box (contents don't have to be there) of "Shake-a'Puddin", a
    product in the early 70's where you'd put this chocolate powder into
    a container, pour in a cup of milk or water, put a sealing cap onto
    the container, then shake it for one minute.  Then you'd have this
    chocolate pudding you could eat.  It wasn't bad!  Also looking for
    1950's/60's candy bars or wrappers,  and Nabisco Products boxes...
Matchbooks, matchbook covers and matchbook cover art, will take almost
    any, if from 1965 or before.
Disneyana stuff - almost *anything* from Disney, especially if it's from
    before 1960!  Books, records, toys, posters, cards, popups, postcards
    of Disneyland (50's), and anything relating to Disney animated movies.
Star Trek and Seaquest Action Figure toys, from Playmates.  I still need
    a bunch to finish my collections!
Anything related to Star Trek!
Tea cards, especially from Red Rose tea.  These are all from the 1960's.
Tobacco cards and tobacco silks, generally from 1920 or earlier.
Cigarette packs from the 60's or before.
Old radios from the 30's and 40's.  These would be the old plastic tabletop
    radios, like Zenith, Philco, and GE used to make.  I don't collect
    the old wooden cathedral radios.
Bottles:  Cobalt blue bottles (any), poison bottles, etc.
Comic Books - 1940's-1975, particularly DC (Superman, Batman, Green
    Lantern, Detective, Showcase, House of Mystery, many more,) and
    Gold Key (Star Trek, Tarzan, Korak, Brady Bunch, Banana Splits, etc).
    I don't collect Marvel!  I also like Classics Illustrated, and Dell
    comics, which mostly were TV or movie comics, and Charleston's ghost
    and mystery comics.  Also like DC's Tales of Tomorrow, Unknown Worlds,
    etc.  Will pay double book for Outer Limits comics!  And looking for
    Triad's 1987/88 "Honeymooners" comics.
Ethnic/Racist stuff.  this is a huge category.  There were thousands of
    objects made in this country which convey old racist attitudes, mostly
    against African Americans (back then called something else).  This
    includes everything from old figurines with "exaggerated features" to
    postcards, to advertising memorabilia, to old movies, to movie
    posters, to disfigured toys and dolls of minorities made for young
    white "pure" children.  I also collect WWII authentic Nazi memorabilia,
    including Nazi propaganda, leaflets, knives and small weapons, etc.
Sheet Music.  I think the cover art to old sheet music is awesome!  I am
    looking for practically any sheet music from 1945 and before.
TV shows and movies.  I have one of the nation's largest private collections
    of old TV shows and movies, old and new, on video.  I trade with people
    all over the country.  I am looking for anyone who has old TV shows on
    tape, from cable, local PBS, any source.  I am particularly interested
    in anything having to do with the old 1950's DuMont TV network, and/or
    anything having to do with Jackie Gleason.  I have thousands of old and
    rare TV shows to trade!  I also collect and specialize in old cartoons,
    especially rare stuff, and series cartoons like Clutch Cargo, Beanie &
    Cecil, Alvin, Milton the Monster, Magilla Gorilla, The Super Seven,
    Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc.  And I like the 20's cartoons like Popo the
    clown, Betty Boop and Bosco.  Also like Woody the Woodpecker, Warner
    Brothers stuff (Buggs, Daffy, Pepe Le Pieu, etc) and the 40's Max
    Flescher and Harmon & Icing cartoons.
View Master Reels from the 1970 or before.  Must be in original paper
    envelope, and if you have the little booklet that came with the original
    reels set, that would be great!  Especially interested in Lost In Space,
    Disney, Star Trek, Batman (the catwoman one), etc.
Whew!!  And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
What DON'T I collect?  I don't collect vintage cars (real ones), sewing 
machine stuff, quilts, carpets, large kitchen appliances, telephones (though 
I do have one 1940's telephone that still works!), beer can and beer can art, 
medicine bottles, political memorabilia (buttons, pins, flyers, etc), stock 
certificates, hat pins, old cameras, old watches, Folk-art stuff, 
typewriters, wicker, collector plates, figurines (except Hummel figures), 
buttons, musical instruments, dolls, tools, ironworks, iron cooking stuff, 
butterflies or insects, antique clothing, china, Elvis stuff, seashells, 
"Occupied Japan", spinning wheels, Indian collectibles, paper weights, cash 
registers, seeds, sports memorabilia, beads, old computer stuff, Star Wars 
collectables, clown & circus collectibles, dried flowers, lampshades, bobby 
pins, old costume jewelry, old REAL jewelry, honey samples, headstone 
etchings, old bicycles, Kennedy memorabilia, or any of thousands and 
thousands of other things I could list.
*Grin*  I just realized how long this message was.  Sorry about that folks, I 
think I got carried away!
--- GoldED 2.50
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