Your lunchbox from childhood is probably worth way more than you thought. The nostalgia for the brightly-colored lunchboxes has fueled a thriving collecting industry. Allen Woodall, the owner of the largest lunch box museum in the world, has amassed a collection of more than 1,300 metal lunch boxes. Some vintage lunchboxes cost more than $1000 nowadays. Not bad for something as ubiquitous as our favorite lunch companions.
The lunch box has humble beginnings. Workers who couldn’t afford a hot meal during lunchtime carried lunches in metal pails. Children followed suit with their own version by repurposing cookie tins in the 1880s. In 1935, the first commercially-available lunch box featured Mickey Mouse. It was produced by a tin toy manufacturer and sold for as much as 20 cents. However, not many could afford this during the Great Depression.
Fast forward to a few decades later, the lunchbox went beyond a tin container and became a personal statement. Many children would flaunt their lunchboxes adorned by their favorite cartoon characters or their favorite shows. Today the most coveted and valuable television themed lunchboxes include those of Lost In Space, Knight Rider, and Star Trek.
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