Marbles, weird stamps, wood box and a knife

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

Recently acquired some of these things. Anyone have any info on any of it? Worth anything?
Don't know anything about marbles or the saving stamps or the knife

 

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[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

texas saving stamps

 

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

frost cutlery knife

 

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

wooden box w/brass facing

 

[Angelo]

Here's a box on ebay. They claim that it is a newspaper/magazine box.

Guessing that yours may depict Columbus's Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

Tony

 

[Tin Nugget]

Great box. I would put a liner in it and maybe keep your better finds in it. Your treasure box!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

texas saving stamps

In the United States, the most popular brand of trading stamps was "S&H Green Stamps", sometimes informally simply known as "Green stamps". Other larger brands included Top Value Stamps, "Gold Bond Stamps", "Plaid Stamps", "Blue Chip Stamps"; "Texas Gold Stamps" were given away in their namesake state mainly by the HEB grocery store chain, and Mahalo stamps in Hawaii.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_stamp

 

[Mackaydon]

Tagging on to Big C's comments, H-E-B, a Texas-based supermarket chain, named after Howard Edward Butt, began in 1905. His store prospered due, in part to 'unusual' advertising. For example, it sometimes advertised with free gifts dispensed-- in one case --by throwing tagged live chickens (good for free groceries) and handfuls of nickels off a store roof--and later gave away cars, mink stoles, trading stamps, and cash prizes.
The Texas Gold Stamp Company, a subsidiary of H-E-B, was organized in 1955 to produce consumer trading stamps. In 1988 Forbes named H-E-B the thirty-sixth largest private company in the United States, with annual sales of $2 billion.

 

[duffytrash]

that bag of marbles as a whole might not be worth much ...champion of california was a jobber who packaged marbles from mexico and asia...the red shooter might be a keeper...can you take another pic of it as it goes today maybe 8-10$ for the bag if a bag collector needs that label...

 

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

thanks for the info everyone! we found a few more marbles, and alot more junk......ill try to get some more pictures up tonight. im playing with the gold testing kit right now.. ...ill let you know how it goes.

 

[Old_Okie]

The knife, of course, commemorates the end of the Bear Bryant era at the University of Alabama. Go Tide!

Old_Okie

 

[secondcup]

That box looks just like one my family had and used for milk deliveries. We kept it on the steps and he milkman would leave the milk bottles etc. in it.

 

[Mackaydon]

secondcup:
Yes, I recall my parents calling it a "milk chest". Here's another one-- though not nearly as ornate:
http://www.grunders-antiques.com/collections.html