Warman's Lunch Boxes Field Guide

Explore photos and learn about collector prices for metal lunch boxes, many including bottles, from the early 1950s to the more modern reincarnations of the 1980s. Enjoy an overview of this hip collectible arena from the author, a man who's accumulated every lunch box of every type ever made.

You can't help but relieve fond memories of childhood when you spend time with this celebration of meal-time nostalgia. Explore photos and learn about collector prices for metal lunch boxes, many including bottles, from the early 1950s to the more modern reincarnations of the 1980s. Enjoy an overview of this hip collectible arena from the author, a man who's accumulated every lunch box of every type ever made.

Joe Soucy of Seaside Toys became hooked on lunch-toting tins in 1988 and has been collecting, buying, selling and dealing in the noontime nostalgia ever since. Karen O'Brien is a lifelong toy collector and book author/editor for Krause Publications and a featured columnist for several F+W Publications magazines.