Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Fake Toe and Shoe” is a device that looks like a huge big toe protruding from a shoe that you tie on to your shoe.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – unknown if it works, key missing.
Description: “Sparking Candy Box” looks like a real box of candy, but when wound and opened the box starts sparking.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1959.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Item #684 “Squeeker” is a device you attach to your shoe that makes each footstep squeak.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Adams.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Squirt Ring” is a fake ring with a bulb that fill with water and hold in your hand to squirt someone when they admire your ring.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold by Johnson Smith & Company.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Stink Bombs or Stinkbomben” consists of three vials with stinky stuff inside.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Stink Bombs” consists of a set of three vials with a stinky solution in them.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – no band.
Description: “Sundial Watch” is a watch with a sundial on it.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1940.
Condition: Fair – Box has tape on cover and pieces missing on sides of cover as well as sides of bottom of box. Crank toy inside works but slips at times.
Description: Item # 741 “Sure Cure For Insomnia” gag box has a crank toy inside with sheep to count.
Manufacturer/Distributor: S. S. Adams, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “The Comic Raveling Joke” is a bobbin of string that when pulled appears to be unraveling your shirt.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – the metal pieces are rusted and the bag is damaged.
Description: “The Crash Bang” is a set of heavy metal pieces that, when dropped, make a crashing sound similar to breaking glass.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “The Father’s Pride” is a gag box with a baby in a bed. Found in the 1932 JSC catalog, page 633.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “The Funny Fly” is a fly on a pin that can be placed anywhere. It is on the original sale card.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Appel.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item #439 “The Hot Seat” is a device that gets hot when you sit on it.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Adam Industries, New York, New York.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “The Little Man With Green Hair” is a card with a picture of a man on it. The instructions say to put the tab on the back into a glass of water and the man’s hair will grow.
Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1912.
Publisher/Distributor: I & M Ottenheimer, 800-802 E. Fayette Street, Cor. Front Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
Condition: Very good – name, address, and date of previous owner written in front page.
Notes: Booklet #29.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Co., Detroit, Michigan.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Wedding Night” is a post card that has a big black rectangle in the middle and says The Wedding Night, Turn Arount Slowly to the Right, Hold Up To A Bright Light. Unfortunately when you do that, nothing happens.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Co., Detroit, Michigan.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Wedding Night” is a post card that has a big black rectangle in the middle and says The Wedding Night, Turn Around Slowly to the Right, Hold Up To A Bright Light. Unfortunately when you do that, nothing happens.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Co., Detroit, Michigan.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Wedding Night” is a post card that has a big black rectangle in the middle and says The Wedding Night, Turn Arount Slowly to the Right, Hold Up To A Bright Light. Unfortunately when you do that, nothing happens.
Manufacturer/Distributor: S. S. Adams, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – Image great, rubber band broken, some rust.
Description: “This Is Just A Racket” is a card with a mechanism inside that winds up and causes a racket when opened.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1940.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Item #701 is a souvenir mailer with an alligator and a mailing tag.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1934.
Condition: Good – some damage to box, mirror is damaged.
Description: Item #306 “Three Little Pigs” gag box is a flip open box with two pigs and a mirror inside.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Toilette” is a small folder that opens up to show a clown with his tongue out. When you open the cover more the eyes roll up in the head and the tongue recedes. When the folder is completely open and the eyes are looking up as far as they can, you can reset the image by pulling the tongue out again while the cover closes. Then it’s ready again to show to another unsuspecting person.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in Johnson Smith & Company catalog.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Trick Soap” is a small box with a bar of soap that turns your skin green.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1965.
Condition: Fair – rubber objects show age, Yakity-Yak missing.
Description: Item # 912 “Trickster’s Box” is a box of gags.
Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1920.
Publisher/Distributor: Wehman Bros., New York, New York.
Condition: Good – back page and several back pages mouse eaten.
Notes: “Up-To-Date Conundrums” is a part of the Handy Series.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – key missing, unknown if it works.
Description: “Vibrating Coin Purse” is a purse that when wound vibrates when picked up.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: “Video-Scope” is supposed to see how photogenic you are, but it does nothing when you press the button.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Voice Tester” is supposed to test your voice, but when you press the button nothing happens.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Item #111 “Warning To Newly Weds” gag box has a cardboard strip with a stork and several children on it.
