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stickers is valued at $15.00. Other
KAYE’S COLLECTOR CORNER companies made puffy stickers
such as: American Greetings and
By Mike Kaye Hallmark. Popular characters like
She-Ra can sell for upwards of
$30.00. The 1980’s Hasbro line of
VINTAGE STICKERS My Little Pony puffy stickers can
go for over $50 per sticker!
Next we have the smelly
Remember back when you were in Elementary school and the teacher would “Scratch-N-Sniff” stickers. Popular
announce that he or she was going to pass out the graded tests from yesterday’s brands from the 80s include Mello
exam? Smello, Trend and CTP. A sheet
You and your classmates are on edge as the anticipation begins, the tension in the of 70s CTP Cherry stickers which
air rises, no one says a peep, as the sound of papers begin to rustle in the teacher’s contains 12 duplicate stickers is
hands. You eagerly await at your school desk as the teacher begins to walk down worth $45.00. The Trend brand had
the aisles, stopping at each desk to hand each student their test results. Your mind a nice variety and all were about
begins flowing with worries, what if you missed question 9, which you weren’t sure the size of a quarter. I personally
on, or that answer you changed and perhaps shouldn’t have, or even worse, you remember teachers putting Trend
failed all together!? brand stickers on my graded
The teacher finally arrives at your desk, and while standing above you shuffling assignments. The fruit smells were
through the papers, pulls out your sheet from the stack and places it in your hands. great but the lawn and tires were
She then walks behind you, proceeding to the next student. You begin to anxiously not very pleasant. Individual Trend My Little Mermaid, a popular puffy sticker
look for the grade in pen, which happens to be better than you thought, and you feel stickers are worth about $2.00 a sealed set by Imperial valued at $15
an instant sigh of relief. You then glance to the upper right corner piece in today’s collector market.
of your test and see something stuck to the paper. You recognize If you’re diligent
the writing on the paper as yours but don’t recall this foreign item enough to collect all 110 Trend stickers manufactured from 1979-
being stuck to the paper when you first worked on the test before 1983, you would have amassed a collection worth over $250.00.
turning it in. When buying any stickers, consider whether you want to collect
This, my friends, is your reward for a job well done, it’s the them individually, on a sheet, stuck in a book or still in original
teacher’s way of congratulating you on your hard work and effort, packaging, aka. New in pack. Also decide which style stickers you
it’s the only real reward you can hold on to so you could remember prefer, in other words, do you like only oilies, or perhaps television
this day. What’s attached to your paper is a STICKER! based subject matter or maybe pop culture and superheroes or just an
Some of you may recall receiving stickers on your assignments, assortment of all types of sticker styles, brands and subject matter.
but did you ever think they’d be worth anything? Perhaps you Another type of collectible sticker is called an “oilie”. These
pulled them off and stuck them in a photo album forming a stickers were eventually recalled when it was decided that mercury
collection, or like most of us, just tossed them still stuck to the wasn’t the safest liquid to put in a sticker for kids to press on. The
papers. neat part about the oilies is how the greenish color would change
I’m about to clue you in on a little secret. The stickers are now and move around as you pressed it. The extent of the detail that each
coveted by collectors and hold value! Fortunes no, but for a sticker sticker had was basically a silhouette of an animal or car which was
being worth anymore than a dollar, it’s quite an accomplishment, filled with the oil. They were advertised as liquid crystal. I recall
considering they’re nothing more than a tiny, die-cut, printed having a seahorse oilie as a child and eventually the liquid started
image, with a bit of adhesive backing. oozing from the sides. If you were to find one of these oilies today,
Let’s dive into some types of popular stickers and their values. made by Davis Liquid Crystals, Inc., the value is approximately
Lisa Frank is a well known artist who has a specific look and $15.00 a piece and they are very desirable.
feel to her art that translates onto her stickers. Her stickers have Next we look at the fuzzy stickers. If you could envision a type
become collectible because of this fact. She often uses bright neon of material with a similar feel to that of a basic clothing lint roller,
colors outlined by black. Shoes, kittens, flowers, music notes, then you could imagine what one of the vintage fuzzy stickers feels
her style easily recognizable, and believe it or not, she’s still in like. When it comes to value, the fuzzies made by SandyLion are the
business today. Some of her most sought after and valuable. A sheet containing four fuzzy fish
jumbo stickers can sell for with brown back can go for over $50.00. Some of the other desirable
upwards of $20.00 each while Super Hero Puffy stickers sheets by SandyLion that contain four stickers are: monkeys, lions,
smaller stickers go in the $2.00 from the 80’s featuring snakes in hats and palm trees.
range. Often times sellers resell popular super heroes The funny thing about collecting stickers is the unpredictability of
them as a sheet which can go from Secret Wars, final sales prices. It seems as though it’s more of an emotional buy
for $5.00 - $15.00 for one sheet. as opposed to an investment. The same sticker could potentially sell
Over time, Lisa Frank expanded for twice as much on a certain day proving no sale price consistency.
her product line to folders and other related Often times sellers will blow out a large lot of stickers, not wanting to spend the
materials besides stickers while maintaining the time sorting through to sell them individually and this results in getting much less
same colors and subject matter still to this day. for certain stickers then they perhaps could have attained by avoiding a group lot
Other types of stickers are “puffy”, “Scratch- sale.
N-Sniff”, “oilies” and “fuzzy”. Collecting stickers can be a great hobby. When on the hunt for newer stickers,
Puffy stickers have a type of padding inside just about any retail shop carries some form of them but if you have fond memories
making them cushiony when pressed. Some of the past, then perhaps you’ll find interest in some of the older stickers that pertain
puffys even have google eyes that give the to your era. Stickers date back many generations to as early as 1935, in the form of
appearance of a puffy sticker being alive and a self-adhesive label. Whenever you were born, rest assured there were stickers of
actually looking around. An example of this is the some kind.
Donkey Kong sticker set from 1982 by Nintendo In closing I’d like to say “Buyer Beware,” stickers may make better memories than
of America. A new in pack (NIP) featuring Mario, they do as investments, but then again, if you collect them with friends and family
the princess and Donkey Kong with 16 total you may find the new memories are worth more than the actual monetary value.

Do you have a large collection that’s too much to handle and you want to sell but don’t know where to start?
Stickers based on the famous 80’s Perhaps you inherited comic books, baseball cards or miscellaneous antiques, maybe want to make space.
Wendy’s commercials, “Where’s the I’ve been known to pay top dollar for vintage collections and I’m waiting for your email, contact me today at:
Beef”, valued at $10-$15. kpeople@hotmail.com. I don’t cherry pick. Let’s talk!