Antique Lunch Boxes...

[DaddyBuiltRacing]

anyone know anything about these? I found a couple in my basement when we moved in here. Cleaned them up and found some stampings on em.

 

The first one is an Aladdin Industries Inc out of Nashville Tennesee. I did a little researching on them and found this out:

 

"It all started in 1908 when Victor Samuel Johnson Sr., a soap salesman in Chicago, started selling kerosene mantle lamps. In 1912, his company, the Mantle Lamp Company of America, began making mantle lamps that gave off a steady white light without smoke. He called these lamps “Aladdin lamps,” after the magical lamp and wish-granting genie in the popular children’s story, and our name was born.

 

In 1917, Johnson decided to diversify (as all good businessmen do!) and began producing insulated cooking dishes. These Aladdin Thermalware jars were the company’s first venture into heat and cold retaining dishes and early cousins of today’s products. In 1919, Johnson moved these jars into a new subsidiary called Aladdin Industries. This subsidiary offered Thermalware jars and vacuum ware and successfully sold and manufactured these products from 1919-1943"

 

Heres a few pics of it:

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/alittlelessordinary/lunchbox3.jpg

 

 

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/alittlelessordinary/lunchbox2.jpg

 

 

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/alittlelessordinary/aladdin.jpg

 

 

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/alittlelessordinary/lunchbox.jpg

 

 

 

The other one is a Thermal brand.

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/alittlelessordinary/Thermal.jpg

 

 

 

I wish I could find out how old these are, there is no manufactured date on either. I contacted Aladdin and they told me that the one by them is atleast 66 years old. Is there any antique appraisers or collectors on here that might be able to tell me how old these damn things are and what they are worth.