Just Curiosities

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1912.
Publisher/Distributor: L & M Ottenheimer, 800-802 E. Fayette Street, Cor. Front Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
Condition: Good – edge wear, normal age wear.
Notes: Booklet #11.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Nose Pin” looks like a safety pin, but it has little pegs that fit in your nose to look like you have a safety pin through your nose.

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1967.
Condition: Good – box is slightly crushed, inside is fine.
Description: Item #574 “Now! You Can Take It With You!” gag box has a supposed fireproof asbestos money bag inside.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Oops” is a Fishlove Whoops knock-off made in Japan.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – wrapper ripped, gum pieces broken.
Description: “Para Gum” is a package of rubber gum.

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1920.
Publisher/Distributor: Wehman Bros., 158 Park Row, New York City, New York.
Condition: Very good – minor wear and puncture marks on front and back covers.
Notes: none.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Phone-E-Squirt” is a plastic telephone handle with at tube and bulb at the end. The idea is that you hand someone the phone and the bulb is full of water so when they put the phone up to their head, you squirt them with water.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good
Description: Item #2512 “Physician Cards” is a phony doctor’s license.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Disney, McDonalds.
Country of Origin: China.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Pop-Up Zombie” Was made for McDonalds by Disney as part of the Haunted Mansion collection. When the cover is slid toward the back a zombie pops out.

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1977.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item #814 “Proven Gasoline Saver” is a gag box with a shoe heel inside.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Loftus, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1989.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Item # JW-0045 “Rattle Snake Eggs” is an envelope with a wind-up mechanism inside that unwinds and rattles when opened.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Rattlesnake Eggs” is an envelope with a rattling device inside. You wind up the rubber band and put it inside the envelope and when someone trys to look inside the rubber band unwinds and makes a big rattling sound.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Revolving Picture” is a joke that when you put it to your eye, you get a black eye.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Revolving Picture” is a device that when you put it to your eye, you get a black eye.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in the Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – instructions present, squirter broken.
Description: “Royal Pee Wee Viewer” is a little crank box that looks like a viewer. When you turn the crank the box squirts water in your eye.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Ricochet, Inc., Middleton, Rhode Island.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1991.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Rubber Check” is a check printed on a rubber surface. It says it is from Ricochet Savings & Loan, Paymor, Taxes. It says it is Postdated, pay to line states Can’t Pay To The Order Of, amount line says Flexible Dollars, memo line states Don’t Bank On It Memo, and signature line says Forged Signature.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Rubber Mouse” is a tiny, flat looking, rubber mouse that can be placed anywhere.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Italy.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Scherzo Spruzzo” is a coin that squirts.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: China.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Shock Chewing Gum” is a pack of gum that gives people a jolt when they try to take a piece of gum.

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1916.
Publisher/Distributor: Wehman Bros., New York, New York.
Condition: Good – spine slightly damaged.
Notes: “Side-Splitting Jokes and Stories” is part of the Handy Series.

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1920.
Publisher/Distributor: Wehman Bros., New York, New York.
Condition: Good – spine slightly damaged.
Notes: “Side-Splitting Jokes and Stories” is part of the Handy Series.

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1966.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item # 569 “Six Shoter” is a belt with six miniature liquor bottles.

Manufacturer/Distributor: James Industries Inc., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – some minor damage to eyeball paint, box is damaged.
Description: “Slinky Eyes” is a pair of glasses with slinky type springs holding the eyeballs. When you put the glasses on the eyeballs spring forward.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Funnyman Gag for Jarroy of London.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Snappy Chewing Gum” is a pack of gum that shocks anyone who tries to get a stick of gum.

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1922.
Publisher/Distributor: Wehman Bros., 158 Park Row, New York, New York.
Condition: Very good.
Notes: “Snappy Jokes” is part of the Handy Series.

Number of Pages: 32.
Date: 1935.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Condition: Excellent.
Notes: Booklet #1947.

Number of Pages: 30.
Date: 1936.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Condition: Excellent.
Notes: none.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Appel.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Item #731 “Sneeze-O-Bubble” is a small glass bubble that you place in your nose to look like you have a snot bubble hanging from your nose.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in the Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – some minor soil.
Description: “Sock Purse” is a classic monkey sock that is very long with a purse closure at the top.

Manufacturer/Distributor: Richard Appel
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – metal stand missing.
Description: Item #461 “Sooner Dog” is a metal dog and several boxes of pellets. A pellet is placed in the butt of the dog and lit, whereby a stream of “poop” comes out of the dog.