P W colored plastic boxes

December 18, 2006, 14:39

Dan Mitchell

Did anyone see this picture on ebay ? I'm amazed at how expensive some of the colors are - for a BOX !

dan

December 18, 2006, 17:08

Pete Cronos

Dan
When was this on EBAY? Can you give us some more info please?
Thanks
Pete Cronos

December 18, 2006, 17:31

Samie L. Smith

Hey thats sure looks like my picture tent but it,s not , sure wish they were my boxes looks like a great selection whoever they belong too, only person i know with that many different Hamilton boxes lives in Tenn.

December 18, 2006, 19:22

Lindell V. Riddle

There sure is a lot of interest in the plastic boxes.

Legend has it that during and shortly after WWII the Armstrong Cork Company who made these for Hamilton was running short of materials for the ivory boxes. Someone had the idea to use leftover colors for the boxes and that resulted in the many odd colors that are so highly sought after today. From what I've seen there are more than a dozen solid colors, some two-tones and at least two or three colors with spots and speckles on them.

And to think at one time men just threw the liners away and carried cigarettes in them. In fact the ad copy reads... "plastic box is suitable for use as a cigarette case" ...how times have changed!

Hamilton 1941 Catalog featuring the boxes...