Jon's Hobby Collections

Here is a special design envelop for storing photos or cards dated back in the year 2000. Your name and your class will also be printed on the envelop too !!! You can even see the old school's landline number, which is present in 7 digits whereas our landline phones these days are all 8 digits. But too bad, the envelop is not in a very good condition when I received it from the previous owner. I am going to let it be as it is. Good collection item, I would say.

Here is how a Johnny Walker Black Label 12 years box looks like in the early 1990s.  Quite hard to find boxes like these exist as most of them are sent back for recycling. If you are a box collector, this item is suitable for you.

This is how Goodman Whisky box looks like in the 1980s.  Quite rare item to overcome these days. The condition of the box doesn't really looks good due to aging and bad storage.

I am not a smoker and I hate to smoke. The reason why I collect this item is because my great grandmother was a heavy smoker in the past. She started smoking at a young age and after that quitting smoking at the age of almost 80 years old when she felt ill for a few day. Back then, my mum and other of the grandchildren would play hide and seek with her cigarette containers and lighters around the house to prevent her from smoking during her transition period of quitting smoking. One a recent discovery, I found a huge bundle of cigarette box and you can check my collection of them here . This one, I bought online at Carousell with a cheap price of 5 Singapore dollars. I like the cute design of this vintage plastic container. This packaging is mostly likely during the 80s to the early 90s. Today's world, cigarette boxes are all in cardboard boxes with images of smoker's lungs and other scary images on the consequences of smoking. Thus, cigarette box like this are rare items t...

For vintage cigarette can collectors, you may want to eye on this item for collection. This is because is a rare 1960s Dunhill, 50 sticks cigarette can. The exterior of the can is quite dirty and also the words seem faded too. Some of you think that I smoke. Well, the answer is I don't smoke. I collect these cigarette cans or tin as a remembrance of my great grandmother who was a heavy smoker back then.  There was no labeling telling consumers that smoking cigarette is bad for health at the time. In fact, there were advertisement back in the 50s to the 80s that promoted smoking. In the world we are living in now, cigarette can have been extinct from the shelf as most countries around the globe had implement heavy regulations on cigarette items which will discourage people from smoking.

My grandmother loves almond powder drink the most and she still drinks it until today. This almond powder is from MR San & Co Trademark and produced under the company M. P. San & Company LTD. This tin looks like those Dutch lady milk kinds. At first when I found it, I thought it was Dutch lady milk brand,, but it isn't. This almond powder is made in Hong Kong back in the 60s and 70s era. Previously, this tin wasn't well kept as it was used to keep screws and nails by my grandfather. Surprisingly, the paper printed label is still attached well to the tin. The cap of the tin is heavily rusted and there were pitted spots on it. To prevent further rusting, I applied a thin layer of WD-40 on top of the cap of the tin. This tin will be then kept in a zip-lock bag with a few bags of silica gels are being placed inside them.  This is the only powder drink tin which I have kept so far in my collection and I plan to expand it as time goes by. 

Ever wonder, how does old Brylcreem or hair cream container looks like in the past 30 years ?? Well here is an example of one old vintage container from the early 80s.  Brylcream is one of the famous hair styling gel brand of all times. If you ever seen those glass kind of Brylcream container of the past, it is extremely valuable and it is worth keeping them. These plastic ones are less rare, but they are made mostly for Asian Market like Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. Brylcreem in the past comes in 2 different sizes too. These Brylcreem are made in Selangor, Malaysia and the production is ongoing and are still supplying their products to the local markets. These packaging design of the Brylcreem container lasted until the mid 90s, before another design came and overtook the previous one. What attracts me the most is that, there are Chinese words printed on the container itself.

Here is how a Remy Martin box looks like in the 1990s. It is quite rare to be seen because only shops that sell alcoholic drinks will buy liquors in large quantity. Here is a sharing only as my uncle used to own an alcoholic shop and close down many years ago. As indicated on the box, this batch of Remy Martin VSOP is for Kuala Lumpur and is produced on May 1991.

Today's sharing would be on this Martell VSOP box from the 90s era.  It is rare to overcome boxes like this as most of them are sent for recycling after the use has been fulfilled.

I found this vintage sugar plastic packaging that was used as a bag to store my electrical wires and I found that it is good to share about it. This sugar company distributes rock sugar to clients across Malaysia but the company Herto M Sdn Bhd in Selangor, Malaysia. That company is no longer in operation anymore as I couldn't find it on Google search. There is even an expiry date of the sugar printed on the bag itself. This is a discovery finding actually and I never notice it at first until I read the words.

Those who are born in the 70s, will find these items familiar. Without fail they will see their parents or grandparents scooping coffee from these old Nescafe glass containers. In fact I have 2 variants of these Nescafe glass container. I have the older ones on the right and the much newer ones of the bottom. I am not really sure whether this sticker is originally pasted there or some of the other adventurous kids pasted it there before I could do so. When I was young, I enjoy peeling off the stickers on these glass containers and stick them everywhere around the house.

This Horlicks Jar is from the late 70s and it is a complementing gift from Horlicks during that time. Horlicks normally will use this tactic by giving out free items to attract customer to buy their products. Their free products are range from glass jar to toys. At the bottom of the glass jar, there is a repeating moulding of the word "Horlicks" on the glass. My parents have this habit of buying a product because of its free items given. It is quite a large Jar and it is definitely airtight for sure. Good for those collectors who can use it as a dry box to store items. The word "Horlicks" can be seen clearly on top of the cap

Remember that time, I shared about the rice sampling tool ?? Today, I found the rice bags that my great grandmother bought last time. My mum found these rice bags in the store room of my grandmother's shop where she used to put her rice last time. Front design Back design The brands of the rice no longer exist today and it has been taken over long ago. These rice bags can hold up to 30 kilograms of rice firmly. The material of the bag is made from nylon which are sew together to form a strong bag or sack.  Front design Back design  Unlike rice bags today, these older ones are not made transparent for consumer to see inside. Newer rice bags made from stronger nylon polyethene material which are a mixture of plastics to give it a rigidity strength.These rice bags are already 30 to 40 years old and it is still great intact.

Here is a packaging of an old Nescafe glass container used back in the 70s to the early 80s.  The sticker bearing the details of the coffee powder is still intact. The top of the lid is made from plastic bearing the nestle word logo. Overall, this glass container may look just an ordinarily container for some of you, but in fact this is a rare collectible actually. My grandparents were using these containers back then to store sugar and spices.