Posted 2 years ago
Vestaswind
(46 items)
I like to collect advertising items that make me laugh and are different. These are three of my favorites. Notice the Rat Chips has an antidote in case of ingestion.
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Fashion
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Just as underclothes are shielded from public view, the evolution of men's most intimate apparel is shrouded in secrecy. But the story of men's underwear is about more …
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
We tend to think of the union of vanity and technology as a particularly modern affliction. It's only recently that science brought the world botox and collagen injections, skin peels, liposucti…
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
It’s easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys’ club—images that might line the walls of a …
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
A keepsake, an item that recognizes a loved one, strikes a deep, sentimental chord in each of us—particularly that of a sweetheart. The popularity of keepsakes grew in the United States during the period from 1917 to 1919 as our country ent…
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
I was walking to school one day and saw all these bikes in the garbage. I was just amazed because I didn't have one and I found it incredible that anyone was throwing them out. So I gathered…
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Advertising TinsThe widespread practice of packing food in tin cans and containers was a di…
And it never spoils! LOL
Yeah and it's always safe, with poison printed all over it haha
Wonder if they made a dip for them chips? LOL
It's sick! They make it sound like food.
The oil can's name and logo sounds like a comerical you see in the middle of the night.
LOL LOVE these! They crack me up! Thanks for posting them, needed a good laugh!
They make me smile. I'm always on the look out for the next inapropriate item.
The first picture( of the guy ) is sort of confusing , I thought at first it was some sort of girdle or truss or, Oh never mind .....
I know it would be worth more if the item was in the box, but somehow I'm glad it's empty
Just a note before they put elastic into the tops of socks, they used these to keep your socks from falling down.................some 'fancys' still use them to keep looking sharp all day, your socks never look like they are drooping ! Just so you know these were not 'out there'..
~giggles~ Neither were my son's jock's from baseball. Never the less when they were done with them I got rid of them :)
Hoppe's lubricating oil for deep penetration for delicate mechanisms? I don't think I'll be using this on my firearm!! But then again it is non gumming...maybe I could use it on my Congress Garter to keep my steel from rusting.No metal touching me is a definite bonus but I still don't want is rusting.
HA HA HA