Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 (edited) OK, Sunday flea market report. Went to the local one early this morning. It's probably the biggest and best in So Cal. Getting harder and harder to score good stuff but I did OK. I got one comic... a first printing of Snatch by Crumb for $5.00 and a few other kinda cool things. But, this was the score of the day. Two BIG boxes of old match book covers from the 1920's-1930's. Nothing as far as I can tell so far past 1939. These were sales man samples originally mounted in a book. They were made without matches or strikers and never folded. These are from business and locations all over the US. These are a real cool glimpse into the America of the period. Just awsome colors and graphics. Many printed with metalic gold and silver ink. So much great art in such a small space. Advertising's Golden Age. And every subject matter you could imagine. Here are just a few examples I pulled out of random. I'm going to have days of fun going through these! This is about 10% of the load. Lots of bundles of them. Edited May 15, 2016 by Robot Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 There were cars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Trucks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Planes... The one at the bottom from LA has beautiful color and silver ink as does the Texaco in the upper right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Trains and Raliroads... Love the art deco art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 There are lots of oil and gas stations ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Lots of soad and soft drinks. Check out the Coca Cola one at the bottom left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Many sports related ones... Beautiful silver ink on the kennel club one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Just TONS of beer, booze and tobacco ones. Love the Apache Beer as well as the black folks on the Hamms one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 And then the very weird category ones for elevators, juke boxes, dynamite and even caskets! A VERY fun find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I didn't see the results, but if those are the cards that HA valued at $200 each, I am sure it looked like they underperformed as that estimate was ridiculously high. They usually sell for $15-$35 per card. Final price (with BP) was $251 for 11 cards, or about $23 each. So it sounds like they sold right about at market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayman Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Planes... The one at the bottom from LA has beautiful color and silver ink as does the Texaco in the upper right. RM, really enjoyed looking at these matchbook covers! What a great find. I especially liked the railroad ones. Thanks for posting them. Btw, I wonder how good Bob's Airmail Service was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 +1. Always fun posts coming from you. :hail: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 OK, for us "little people" who don't care about the latest CC or HA auction, don't give a rat's about the "bubble" or could care less about match books, how about another fun subset? These are always, something I look for, Clock covers! Feel free to post yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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