Apart from my very first one, I found most of my lunch boxes on the famous Stormville Flea Market in the Hudson Valley and they are all from the Sixties and early Seventies, I guess. However, I don't know how many different Peanuts boxes were produced, so if you happen to have this information, please drop me an e-mail.

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#1
This is the first lunch box I've ever bought. It was during a neighbors moving sale in 1996.
 

#2
The most beautiful one and also a very rare piece. Snoopy is holding a blue cup and I learned from a Collector's Guide that on most boxes of this series it's a red one.

#3
This box is also a nice one and in very good shape. I doubt that it has ever been used (at least it was never used to hit a fellow classmate on the head).

#4
The boxes #4 to #6 show the same pictures but the colors are different. This one is red, for instance.

#5
This box has a yellow lid and a yellow bottom, but the sides are red.
 

#6
This box is yellow all over.

Click on the globe to learn more about American lunch boxes, they are pretty unknown in Germany - at least I haven't seen any antique ones, yet.

www.lunchboxpad.com

Finally, if you understand German, a click on this globe beams you to our Poughkeepsie Newsletter web site where you can read more about the American flea market culture and the Stormville event (it's Newsletter #23).

www.hbgl.net/newsletter