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Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage 2 3/4" square box contains one dozen metal Mason lids with rubber seals. Each lid has Good Housekeeper advertising on it and the Cupples logo. Boxes are marked "Good HouseKeepers Cupples Company St. Louis". These are circa 1950. They were never opened or sold. The boxes have smudging from being stacked on to of each other for many years. The lids are in perfect condition. Nice unused old stock from we recently rescued.

Click the picture to see a large detailed image picturing both sides of the pass. This super rare pass 

was in use during Whitney Houston's (Vocals) time.  Houston passed in 2012 (1963-2012). A fun fact about Houston is: she was a back up singer for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson at only 15 years old.

 

Group/Artist Name: Whitney Houston

Origin: Newark, New Jersey

Years Active: 1977-2012

Genre: R&B, Pop

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Front and Back

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: Production All Access Pass

Location and Date: NAS Norfold, Virginia Hangar LP2 on March 31, 1991

Tour Name and Date(s): Welcome Home Heroes

Size: 4 1/4” tall

Condition: Unused

Special Features: Glow under blacklight

Album Sales: 200 Million Plus

Date of Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2020

Grammy Awards: She has been nominated 25 times, and won 6 times.

Other: Houston is one of the bestselling artists of all time, and is nicknamed "The Voice". According to Guinness Book of World Records, she is also "The Most Awarded Female Artist of All Time". 

(You get 81 for $40 - that's less than 50¢ each) This set includes all 12 pictured above, plus our set of 28 fruits and vegetables, plus our set of 41 flower and ornamentals for a total of 81 different in total. All 81 are 5¢ and 10¢ packs. These are the oldest ones that were found. They are all unused old stock from the Lonestar Seed company in San Antonio, Texas. They were printed in the 1940/50s. A few may be from the 1930s.

 

They all have great graphics and quality. Please click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. To see the others in this set, look at the image of our flower and fruit and vegetable sets.

Hippies were stringing big hole beads on rope back in the day and these had the earthy look that was popular. They are in unused condition, and are very uncommon. They were sold as hippie beads in the late 60s from a bead store near the Haight Ashbury area. In 1967, the hippie phenomena dominated the area and the demand for beads was huge. The owner of this store put out the call that he wanted all types of beads that were either colorful, large, earthenware, or had mystical significance. The hardcore hippies wanted glass or ceramic or earthenware, so that is what most of these items are. The demand started slacking as the hippie phenomena died down and by the mid 1970s, they started selling gold chains and disco related items instead. The hippie items were taken from the front shelves, and stored in the back. The newspaper they were wrapped in was dated 1977, so that's when they put them back there. The most striking thing in the store was an old display of huge African Trade Bead necklaces from the 1800s. They were even selling those sort of beads to the hippies. One of those necklaces will run you about 2 grand now. That place is a real time warp. You could still smell incense around some of the boxes and I kept hearing Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane in my head. Just amazing.

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage cardboard package has an image of the novelty salt and pepper shakers. The box says "Salt and Pepper Candelabra" "Made in Hong Kong". They are from the 1960s. The candelabra itself is 6" tall and all plastic. One candle is marked "S" and the other "P". You just twist the top off to fill them. They still work. It looks like the black paint dripped in some small spots it shouldn't have, but oddly, it adds to the spooky effect. These are so bad they are good. They have an Adams family Gothic look and vibe to them. Great Halloween item. This is a very recent find. They are in excellent unused condition.

  
These Grateful Dead stickers/decals are old tour merchandise. I found them wrapped in plastic in boxes in master cases. They came from a distributor who sold them to tour vendors. The condition is pristine and they still will work as a car decal or window/mirror sticker. We found them packed away in storage boxes dated 1992 (many are older than that) and 1995 (year Jerry Garcia died). They are high quality artist renderings of Grateful Dead themes. Back in the day, the Dead did not monitor copyrights and that sort of thing, and in fact, at one point encouraged artists to do designs. The LA times explained it well "The Grateful Dead was famously lax in enforcing it’s intellectual property rights and trademarks, allowing fans to create their own designs using the band’s expansive iconography”. Since there was no serious monitoring or much concern back then, a lot of up and coming artists got involved in designing them. This is how some of them got their starts. Some of the sticker artists who designed these stickers went on to produce official licensed works for the Grateful Dead and other famous groups. These stickers include some by now famous designers including David Opie, and others. These 1995 and older stickers are very hard to find anymore.