posted on April 16, 2004 12:45:52 PM
I posted this downstairs but now I noticed that there is one for sale on ebay so I'll post it here also.
I Don't Want a Cookie, Mom, Can I Just See the Box?
Fri Apr 16, 9:38 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - It looks like an ordinary old-fashioned cookie tin, but the hidden drawing of two dogs having sex in the grass makes it an instant collectors' item.
Biscuit makers Huntley & Palmers sold thousands of tins of treats featuring a copy of an early 20th century illustration of a genteel picnic -- without realizing that a disgruntled employee had hidden sexually explicit drawings in the scene.
Lawrences Auctioneers in Somerset, southwest England, is hoping collectors will bid 250 pounds ($446) when one of the tins goes on sale next Friday.
The unidentified artist who copied the illustration had lost his job at the cookie company and decided to take revenge on his employers while completing his final project.
He included a small picture of two dogs having sex and another of a pair of naked lovers. An obscene label written on a jam jar suggests it contains something other than jam.
"A grocer on a slow day in his shop spotted the added characters in 1980 and the company was quite embarrassed. But now it's very popular and they are collectors' items," said a spokesman for Reading Museum in England, where another of the tins is on display.
posted on April 16, 2004 05:25:48 PM
Gives me something to rummage through the thrift stores. Now this will be my goal for the summer. I doubt if I will find one but it will be fun looking. A year ago I set my sites on Vera Bradley purses and low and behold I found one. My first goal was when I started to collect Swatch Watches. Went all summer no watches. I came across a rummage sale no watches but a sweat shirt but I didn't realize that the next rummage sale I was going to go to had two swatch watches in their cases. 50 cents each. That was my start. I don't have a lot as I sold some but it is fun to set goals.
posted on April 16, 2004 05:32:50 PM
I don't collect anything in particular but my eBay stuff does seem to go in runs. Sometimes it'll be one thing, then another.
For a while there it seemed like every time I turned around there was a sewing machine selling for a few bucks. Which I bought and then sold on eBay. Probably six or seven.
Another time it was high-end purses (Prada, Gucci, Dooney, etc.)
Lately it's been vintage doll clothes patterns and sewing machine parts.
Just never know. I think it's because as we sell more and more on eBay we get better at recognizing what is worth buying and maybe what we've sold recently is in our mind more.
