Flea Market Finds

This is an unabashedly lazy blog post.

For the past week my GF and I have been motoring around Southern Ontario. With the last wisps of summer coming to a close, my mind has been more occupied with mini-golf, a good burger, and finding weird highway attractions.

As always, I’m on the lookout for cool, retro illustrations and lettering. We try and map our routes past as many flea markets as we can. Sometimes they’re a bust. However, at Pickers World Antique Market in Kingston, I found something pretty awesome—a BOAC tin box with a bunch of nifty retro illustrations of their legacy aircraft.

In case you don’t know, BOAC stood for the British Overseas Airways Corporation.

There’s no date marked on the box, but I would put its manufacture between 1964 and 1968. A couple of reasons for that—the VC-10 jet on the lid came into service in 1964. Also, BOAC started flying the 747 in 1969, and I can’t imagine them not portraying it. The box certainly wasn’t made after 1974, as BOAC and BEA (British European Airways) merged to form British Airways that year. There isn’t much info online about the tin box, but it looks like they were filled with sweets and handed out to the kids onboard.

Enjoy the photos, and hope you had a great summer.