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Museum currently exhibits 3161 unique bags.

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Donations and Swaps

As a collector of Air Sickness Bags. I am interested in obtaining new specimens. If you happen to encounter any kind of sickness bag, would you kindly send me one (unless it's plain white)? Here's the "corporate" address:

Steve Silberberg
9 Third St.
Hull, MA 02045
USA

Actually, airlines change their bags every few years, so if you ever notice a change, please snatch that bag and send it to me! I would be very grateful for any help you might provide. Many thanks in advance.

EL AL

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Received From: Liz Annenberg
Print or Image Color: Green and White
Background / Bag Color: Navy
I used to have my screen settings of blue on green. It drove my eyes crazy, just like this bag does.

EL AL

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Received From: Noa Miller
Print or Image Color: Green and White
Background / Bag Color: Navy
I used to have my screen settings of blue on green. It drove my eyes crazy, just like this bag does. Same as other bag except has a serrated, toothed top.

One other thing to notice is the French. There is an extra 'E' on this bag between LIQUIDES and ET.

EL AL

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Itamar Rotlevi
Print or Image Color: Navy and Teal
Background / Bag Color: White

Emirates

Approximate Vintage: 1998
Received From: Brian Stevens
Print or Image Color: Gold
Background / Bag Color: Tan
Same as other Emirates bag, except has ELAG bottom. This bag has that Casablanca type mystique, trying to capture gaudy, but not too overstated culture on an Air Sickness Bag.

Emirates

Received From: Paul Mundy
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: Tan
Hey, Kilroy is back! Notice that they guy on the bag probably isn't Arabic because he has only 1 hair. This character joins the Barf Bag character hall of fame alongside KLM's Dusty and TWA's doggie.

Ethiopian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Lou Mazel
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag is very busy for my tastes. It's got the Sri Lanka lion on the bottom. Inexplicably, the back warns: "Please, no refuse!" Yes, refuse in a barf bag would be a travesty.

Eurocypria

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Steve Jones
Print or Image Color: Blue and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Some may say that this bag features a cute starfish, but it's really an abstract drawing of an airsick passenger sprawled out on the beach.

Eva Air

Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Green, Yellow, Orange
Background / Bag Color: White
Functional, unremarkable bag. Uses a background reminiscent of a marshy area on a topo map.

Finnair

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Identical to other Finnair bags, except no numbers are printed on the back. However, in the fold it says Rosenlow 405

First Choice

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Andy Rudge
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: White and Blue
What a great bag. It says, "Unexpected Departure? Don't worry, we'll look after you." Finally, an airline that cares deeply about your vomit! And what kind of name is First Choice Airways? It sounds like either a brand of dog food or a microwaveable dinner.

Futura

Received From: Paul Mundy
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
According to this bag, the future is Nukes. Maybe an atomic logo was futuristic in 1968, but now it just looks silly.

Garuda

Received From: Robert Masumura
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: Blue and White
Of the blue downsized Garuda bags, this is the design that got it right. Big logo on the front, instructions on the back. Simple and elegant. Too bad they kept tinkering with it.

Garuda

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Ben Guttery
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: Blue and White
This is probably the smallest bag in the museum. Someone like Ted Kennedy could probably use 8 or 9 of these at a time.

Garuda

Approximate Vintage: 1998
Received From: Mike Roselle
Print or Image Color: White and Teal
Background / Bag Color: White and Teal
An almost exact amalgamation of the 1995 and 2000 versions.

Garuda

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Rick Barry
Print or Image Color: White and Aqua
Background / Bag Color: White and Aqua
The bag got bigger! Rick says, "If you speak both English and Indonesian, you have a lot of folding to do" (See Side B). Rick also notes the error "Tear of Here".

Germania

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: David Zekria
Print or Image Color: Forest/Lime Green
Background / Bag Color: White
Tasteful, italicized bag with stars on the inseam.

Germanwings

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Yellow
Background / Bag Color: Purple
Cool purple bag with understated company name.

Germanwings Special Fake

Approximate Vintage: 2005
Received From: Alan Howlett
Print or Image Color: Yellow
Background / Bag Color: Purple
According to esteemed collector Alan Howlett: "In todays edition (September 26, 2005) of the Stuttgarter Zeitung, a regional German newspaper, Germanwings presented unsuspecting readers with a special sickbag as a publicity stunt. The bag is of the same size and quality of the regular bag and the front face features a map of all Germanwings connections from Stuttgart, the back face features a map of the Cannstatter Wasen (the location of the beer fest) and its attractions, which started in Stuttgart on Saturday and will run for another two weeks.

Gulf Air

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Graham Curran
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: Peach
The text under the logo shows the letters LF doing a double dipsy jump rope. Even the Arabic has the has the jump rope. And on Side 1, it looks like whoever printed the Arabic at the bottom lost 2 points for misspelling something.

Hainan Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Uwe Behling
Print or Image Color: Yellow, Red, White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Nonsensical logo looks like a tongue with yellow hair on it.
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