This morning after a very crummy night I see this on Facebook, and my jaw hits the floor my mood instantly goes from crap to overjoyed! This is so beautiful I really just can't believe what i am seeing! We celebrate you Igor & your beautiful work of art!
This work of art was the contest winner for Aaron Lamay's upcoming Pez guide cover.
BRAVO IGOR!!!!!
Igor is a contributor for Pezilla a Fabulous Pez Blog
It has been snowing here for the last 3 days and I am starting to get cabin fever, It never snows here so it is definitely different. Some pretty good auctions happening on eBay :)
When I decided to start collecting the Valentines about a month ago, I did not even think about the toll it would take on my health.Seems since I started this quest I have had more headaches than ever before.Anyway, I am now up to 81 hearts of the 255 on the wonderful chart that someone created, my copy was taken from Pastor Pez’s Blog.
If you are wanting a chart, send me your address and I will send you one no matter where you live.
Lately many of my friends on Facebook have been posting press articles featuring their Pez collections! To this I say BRAVO!!
Pez Ghosty
Nenad Markov in his apartment in Rudolf -Fuenfhaus : " My dearest Pez candy dispenser is worth 1,500 euros !"
A Viennese spends his spare time collecting candy that does not taste it.
2500 candy dispenser worth 15,000 euros - that is the pride of Nenad Markov . Because the 39- year-old Viennese collects twelve years Pez candies and everything that goes with it : from race cars to key chains , to vitamin tablets. " It's a passion ," says Markov .
It all started at the flea market with a box of Pez dispensers. Meanwhile, Markov is networked with collectors around the world and runs from a Pez meeting to the next. But although he urge his collectors can not agree , one thing is certain for him : Sell it does not want. "I would not have the heart . "
A few weeks ago the subject of this column was PEZ collecting. A reader, Janice from Sag Harbor, NY, wrote in and shared her story. It begins with her oldest child’s 100th day of kindergarten.
“I started collecting PEZ when my oldest child Shane, needed to bring 100 items to school on the 100th day of Kindergarten. As we were looking for 100 things to bring to school, he said, “Can I bring 100 PEZ dispensers?”
PEZ collection display
I said, “Sure, do you have that many?”
He said, “Let’s count.” We did.
We had a lot of double PEZ, like Tweety Bird, Sylvester, a couple of Tom and Jerry, The Simpsons, Garfield and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Including holiday PEZ, these made up the the majority of what he had. So after that day of school, I was amazed that we had that many PEZ dispensers just lying around the house.”
Janice goes on to explain how she would buy them around the holidays as a gift for her son or maybe pick one up while shopping to help keep his attention while she looked around.
She is searching for what she feels is one of the hardest dispensers to find, one made by Devlin Studios about eight years ago for FAO Schwartz. That dispenser is a Swarovski crystal covered Tigger, the tiger from Winnie the Pooh. She has others in the series: Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, which were crafted by Catherine Bauman, along with Kermit the Frog and Goofy. All are covered in the Swarovski crystals.
PEZ collection distantJanice also collects different color variations of PEZ dispensers: including the vintage cockatoo, pony-go-round, and cow.
Like many collectors, she always has her eye out whenever she goes shopping, looking for new pieces for sale. She says she has every current PEZ dispenser issued over the past 10 years. She hopes to someday start adding some more rare pieces which can sell for up to $6000 and more. There are also some PEZ dispensers that are "one of a kind".
Finally, she is looking forward to attending her first PEZ Convention in April of next year.
Thank you Janice for sharing your collecting story in both words and pictures.
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These old rare collectible PEZ dispensers, come from the famous and much written about folk, kitsch and vintage art collection power collectors Gael and Michael Mendelsohn, of New York and Florida assembled.
They are part of the Mendelsohn's personal collection and were purchased at many different places over years and decades from many different sources.
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