Vintage Old Rare 1965 Daniel Boone Lunchbox Lunch kit

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I have bought many lunchbox collections over the years from some of the top lunchbox collectors in the USA . Aikins, Vandervate, Ficsor, and Beck. In the lunchbox guide written by Larry Aikins (King of Lunchboxes) you will see in the acknowledgements that three of the four listed above helped with pictures from their collection in putting this guide together. In all I have amassed many 1000's of vintage metal lunchboxes. I have numerous duplicates of rare and common boxes that I will be selling. Over the next several weeks I will be listing around 200 boxes. These ARE IN USED CONDITION. I will not grade these I will let the pictures speak for themself and let you decide. I have about 1000 boxes to sell between now and Christmas in various conditions. I will be selling almost one of every box in Larry Aikins price guide to Metal lunchboxes. I have sold over 1800 lunchboxes on ebay over the last 2 1/2 years and about that many outside of ebay through other types of sales with lots of repeat customers. Please view our feedback ratings and bid with confidence. I will take several pictures to try to show the true condition of the boxes. Please ask any questions before bidding. Selling AS IS. Please look in our Ebay store as we are selling mainly C9 to Mint UNUSED boxes 1965 Daniel Boone Lunchbox Made by American Thermos Rarity 6 "American Frontiersman " Price Guide Value $400 (C10 Condition) More than any other man, Daniel Boone was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. His grandfather came from England to America in 1717. His father was a weaver and blacksmith, and he raised livestock in the country near Reading, Pennsylvania. Daniel was born t on November 2, 1734. If Daniel Boone was destined to become a man of the wild, an explorer of unmapped spaces, his boyhood was the perfect preparation. He came to know the friendly Indians in the forests, and early he was marking the habits of wild things and bringing them down with a crude whittled spear. When he was twelve his father gave him a rifle, and his career as a huntsman began. When he was fifteen, the family moved to the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, a trek that took over a year. At nineteen or twenty he left his family home with a military expedition in the French and Indian War. T he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the explorer's life. Back home on his father's farm he began courting a neighbor's daughter, Rebecca Bryan, and soon they were married. In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. But the least explored parts were still farther west, beyond the Cumberlands, and John Finley persuaded him to go on a great adventure. On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp at Station Camp creek. It was nearly two years before Boone returned home, and during that time he explored Kentucky as far west as the Falls of the Ohio, w Louisville is now. T was another visit to Kentucky in 1773, and in 1774 he built a cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth. Colonel Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company hired Boone as his agent, and in March, 1775, Boone came again to the "Great Meadow" with a party of thirty settlers. They began to clear the Wilderness Road and by April they were establishing their settlement at Boonesborough. Boone left the Bluegrass in 1788 and moved into what is now West Virginia. Ten years later he again heard the call of unknown country luring him, this time to the Missouri region. As his dug-out canoe passed Cincinnati, somebody asked why he was leaving Kentucky. "Too crowded" was his answer. He lived in Missouri the rest of his life, although he twice revisited Kentucky before he died at the age of 85. He was buried beside his wi... read more

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