This book has proven to be a great seller that covers over 3,000 collectible glasses. Glasses featuring Walt Disney characters, Hanna Barbera characters, Batman, Dick Tracy, Holly Hobbie, and sports figures are but a sample of what is contained within this guide. With distributors as renowned as Pepsi, McDonalds, and Coca-Cola, these collectibles were everywhere! 1996 VALUES

Drinking glasses have established themselves as part of our popular culture and have commercial, cultural, and historical significance. They can be traced back to the jam, cheese, and soft drink glasses of the '30s and '40s. This factual book on the subject provides trustworthy, comprehensive value information for food product, sports, and cartoon glasses.

Starting in the early 1960s, the McDonald's restaurant chain has been creatively advertising their popular fast food products through the sale of collectible drinking glasses. A virtual parade of glassware fills the pages of this colorful book, which illustrates and describes McDonald's glassware promotions in the United States from 1963 to 1998. Organized chronologically and featuring convenient check-off boxes to help you organize and document your collection, the book includes glasses, cups, mugs, and steins--with tankards following closely behind. Over 250 color photos highlight glassware featuring Ronald McDonald and his McDonaldland pals; cartoon, movie, and television characters; sports themes; commemoratives; and many more. Values and a helpful index are provided. For a smashing time, don't miss out on the Losonsky team's exciting world of collectible glassware from McDonald's!

If you see the Golden Arches, you know exactly what they mean. McDonald's restaurants have been around since 1955, and have served cheeseburgers, french fries, and other 'happy' meals to billions of people around the world. Besides its popularity for their fast food, McDonald's has also become well-known for pouring its beverages into hundreds of different glasses, cups, mugs, and other drinkware. These various containers have become highly collectible, and have been around since the 1970s. Michael J. Kelly, co-author of the popular Collectible Drinking Glasses, has focused this time specifically on McDonald's drinkware and produced the most comprehensive identification and value guide on this subject. Over 1,600 items, both domestic and foreign, are listed and pictured in almost 300 color photographs. It's the only book to list and price glass, ceramic, pottery, plastic, acrylic, and paper drinkware. Glasses and cups commemorating grand openings, anniversaries, conventions, Hamburger University, Ronald McDonald House, sports, and NASCAR are all featured in this book. There is extensive coverage of convention stemware, paper cups, travel mugs, sports bottles, and sports glassware. Plus it features rare McDonald's managers' issues, prototypes, and error glasses never before seen in any publication.

Decorated peanut butter glasses were made in the 1950s to sell commercially produced peanut butter. The glasses were printed with colorful painted images of flowers, birds, dogs, and specialty images. Most of the images were identified by a label, such as the name of the flower depicted. Their bright colors have attracted a host of collectors. Here is the long-awaited 2nd edition of the ever-popular Peanut Butter Glasses! This expanded edition features more than 100 previously unlisted peanut butter glasses and an extensive look at peanut butter glasses manufactured by companies other than Boscul. Most importantly, current values are provided for these beautiful glasses that are clearly pictured in full color. Check off boxes assist collectors in maintaining personal inventories! New information, new tumblers, and new prices...all in this new 2nd edition! This book catalogs the known decorations by showing both front and back views of each glass. Nearly 1100 color photographs and identifying text tell the whole story. The pictures are arranged alphabetically and a value range is supplied with each piece for easy reference.