Decals,Stickers What to do?

I just went through my Sticker Box, a 12x24x8 cardboard box that is filled with un stuck stickers that I have collected since the late 70s. I have been in the Auto Parts business since then, speed shop and aftermarket and dealership so I have amassed a fair amount of decals. Not much for sticking em on my took box, although it does have a few faves stuck to it. What should I do to display them? Or should I just leave em where thay are or E-Bay em? I am posting this on the GarageJournal as well so no offense if you see it there as well.
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I have the doors to my shop completely covered in stickers,also the shop fridge is almost full. just an idea. you dont see them in the box

 

I've got about 8 or 9 hundred Coop stickers of various design and debauch, would anyone be interested in buying the lot?

 

Depending on what you have, there could be decent value there.

I started sticker & decal collecting when I was 9. Between car shows, speed shops & eventually buying, selling and reproducing I have more than a few here. I/m 54 now & still dig in sticker boxes at the swap meets looking for something I don't have.

 

If you decide to start selling off a few post them up.. But as always enjoy your collection man!

 

I pull off and wrap the switch plates of the garage with various stickers, several at a time where you just see bits of the various ones. Also for the toolbox you can get thin magnetic sheets, put the sticker on that, then cut the magnet to size, works great and it's can change/move no problem.

 

I put mine on the shop fridge as well. If it tears up I can still use it for storage. I also have 2 tall metal storage cabinets that are filling up. Also have some dash plaques on those. They are portable and will go with me if I move.

48 Poncho

 

wall paper the guest bathroom with them, woman love it.

 

I have also used the magnet paper so the decal is never permanent. Tool box, shop frig, ect. You can find it at craft stores and it works great.

 

Thanx Guys. All great ideas, probably go with the magnet deal-io.

 

A few years back I realized that my sticker box had gotten out of control. I started hoarding them in the 60's. So I went through the box and sorted out all the duplicates and the ones I didn't really care about. The good ones, the rare or just ones that meant something to me went on the shop fridge. At first I was leery of this, as what happens when the fridge craps out - I thought it could always be storage and then I remember what this custom header builder in So Cal (Headers by George) did that i saw in the 70's. He took the door off his defunct fridge and hinged it to the wall. All the cool stickers were still preserved and when you opened it he had painted beer cans and food on the wall "Inside"
As for the others, I took them to the Pomona Swap Meet and sold the whole lot for big bucks to a kid visiting from Japan!

 

I got a friend that has boxes of them, i keep telling him to put them in a book even unstuck. So you can have them and look at them as well as other people.

 

I have seen them displayed in picture frames before. May be somthing that you think about.

It they are not so important to you that you want to display them or stick them on something it may be a good time to E-bay 'em.