520 vintage lunchboxes go up for auction

MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (LEX 18) — A family’s monolithic postulation of vintage lunchboxes are up for auction successful Kentucky.

The postulation of 520 vintage lunchboxes belonged to Marvin Brown.

“When radical saw them, usually, the archetypal look was, ‘Wow. How did helium cod truthful many?’” said Marvin's son, Mark.

Mark said his dada bought the archetypal lunchbox successful the 1980s.

Metal luncheon boxes roseate successful popularity successful the 1950s alongside the roar of tv shows. The precise past metallic luncheon container was produced successful 1985. It features Rambo.

Marvin passed distant successful July 2020.

The Brown household does not person abstraction to store the postulation and has decided to springiness them a changeable astatine a caller location alternatively of letting them beryllium thrown distant oregon cod dust.

Caswell Prewitt Realty is successful complaint of the lunchbox auction.

“I was truthful excited due to the fact that I similar quirky collectibles,” said auctioneer Dave Diedrich.

The lunchboxes diagnostic each sorts of characters, including Strawberry Shortcake, Batman, the Jetsons, Barbie, and more.

Currently, the highest bid for the postulation sits astatine $1,550 for a Toppie the Elephant lunchbox. Only 12 were ever made, according to Diedrich.

The oldest luncheon container successful the postulation is simply a elemental metallic container that was made successful 1885.

The archetypal batch closes astatine 6 p.m. connected Nov. 7.

To marque a bid oregon find retired much accusation astir viewing the collection, you tin sojourn here.

This communicative was primitively reported by Sofia Millar connected lex18.com.