Old metal lunch boxes have skyrocketed in price. Browse through your old playthings & see which of these valuable vintage lunch boxes you can find.

Brickell admired the colorful boxes so much he started collecting them; eventually, he and fellow lunch-box enthusiast Allen Woodall published “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Metal Lunch Boxes.” ...

Kids today carry their lunch to school in brown paper bags, insulated plastic sacks and even compartmentalized bento boxes. But for earlier generations, there was one dominant option: a metal ...

For the next 30 years or so, metal lunch boxes entered a golden age; pop icons from The Beatles to Barbie were featured on their own box.

First, a little history. At the turn of the 20th century it was workmen, not children, who carried lunch boxes--mostly plain, metal lunch pails or collapsible metal boxes.

From the 1950s to 1987, when the last metal one was produced featuring a gun-toting Sylvester Stallone as "Rambo," about 120 million metal lunch boxes were sold.

Yes, the Lunch Box Museum in west Georgia really is home to the world’s largest collection of lunch boxes, with more than 5,000 metal and plastic boxes, thermoses and coolers.

A highly unscientific poll shows sneakers are still big, as are school supplies. But prices aren't what they used to be. If you're buying sneakers, you'd better take out a loan.

Brickell admired the colorful boxes so much he started collecting them; eventually, he and fellow lunch-box enthusiast Allen Woodall published “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Metal Lunch Boxes.” ...

Click here to see 10 Vintage Metal Lunch Boxes Worth Big Bucks In 1950, a company called Aladdin produced the first true lunch boxes of the era, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures ...