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I got a 1975 bar of soap that is still wrapped. It has copyright 1975 Hallmark cards, Inc and "Happy Hattie" on it. The wrapper is yellow with flowers and has a little girl on the front. Would this be something ebayable? I have done title searches and description searches and nothing has shown up in either active or closed items. From feeling the soap through the wrapper, it feels intact, and it feels like the top has an engraving of the little girl that's pictured on the wrapper, but I wouldn't know for sure unless I remove the wrapper, which I don't want to do.
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It's probably still good, but if it's been around for 30 years why would anybody be buying it and paying shipping to use it to wash?
A plain old bar of Ivory is cheap cheap cheap... Focus on the cute factor.
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Well I meant a good find for an ebay listing? Collector's item?? But I guess if someone wanted to take a bath with it, lol.
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It's .35 to fling it up against the ebay wall and see if it sticks. Why not? I saw soap sell a year or so ago for like $30! But it was OLD soap. I think from the 1930's or so.
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Old ANYTHING typically has a market....Speaking as one who collects (and decorates her bathroom with) vintage soaps/drugs/toiletries, I would venture to say that your bar of soap is certainly work eBaying....Being a child of the 60's & 70's, I know that I have searched for/found/bought items that I remember having in my bathroom growing up (got a flicker razor, and St. Joseph's aspirin bottle (thanx to an heren) and some avon products and aspergum, and old Herbal Essense Shampoo bottle (again, thanx to an heren!) and I'd LOVE to find an old Sardo bath oil bottle & White Rain Shampoo bottles from the 60's or 70's....(psssst, if ya got anything like that, PM me, k?)....
Throw it up there for a couple/few bucks...betcha you find a taker (or even better TWO takers who want it!)....
"1970's Vintage Toiletries".....
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Originally Posted by mysteriouscutie
Well I meant a good find for an eBay listing? Collector's item?? But I guess if someone wanted to take a bath with it, lol.
Right. That's what I was saying. Focus on the cute factor, not whether or not the soap was still good.
I have a bar of Hershey's Tar Soap that I've been toying with the idea of selling, but I kind of like it so I suppose I'll keep it around here for a little while longer. I've never had the urge to take a bath with it.
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>ahem<
Please refrain from reminding those people born in 1975 that they will be turning 30 this year.
I didn't feel old until I thought about it in terms of old soap.
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Originally Posted by TerraFreaky
>ahem<
Please refrain from reminding those people born in 1975 that they will be turning 30 this year.
I didn't feel old until I thought about it in terms of old soap.
I'll be 30 next year.
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As an elderly antique shop owner told me once "Anything that is thirty years old or older is worth something to someone somewhere. You just have to see if you can find them." By anything, they even included things like old newspapers, magazines, etc. By something, he didn't mean a fortune. Simply resellable, at some value. Some items will be worth a lot, some just a little. Even old metal spice cans. And old kitchen utensils.
Old Hallmark soap would be a cross-collectible in a couple categories.