Welcome to the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum!

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.

Varig

Received From: Christoph Vogel
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: White
The 3 flowers in a row makes the bag look like some weird Brazilian slot machine. Open the bag up and see what you've won! Nice 60's-like Laugh-In hand.

Varig

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Christian Funch
Print or Image Color: Gold, Tan, Blue, and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Very art deco. The logo looks like one of those burrs that you can never get out of your pet's hair.

Vietnam Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 1996
Received From: Mary Beth McNamara
Background / Bag Color: Blue and White
Bird on a unicycle logo?

Vietnam Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Jürgen Klein
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: Navy and White
The Bird on a unicycle logo has been moved down and to the left of the airline name. Note the extra blue band at the top of the bag as well. Different from other Vietnam 2003 bags because Phone and Fax numbers were added inside the gusset.

Vietnam Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Jürgen Klein
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: Navy and White
The Bird on a unicycle logo has been moved down and to the left of the airline name. Note the extra blue band at the top of the bag as well. Different from other Vietnam 2003 bags because Phone, Fax, and e-mail were added inside the gusset.

Virgin Atlantic

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Received From: David Goldberg
Print or Image Color: Red and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Identical to other 1991 bags EXCEPT this bag has a bottom so that it will stand unaided when full.

Virgin Atlantic

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Received From: Richard David Glueck
Print or Image Color: Red and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Same as other 1991 bag except there is no thumb tab.

Virgin Atlantic

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Received From: Marty St. George
Print or Image Color: Red and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Same as before, but logo got downsized, plus they added the words "Virgin Atlantic" to the bag.

Virgin Atlantic

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Bruce Fowler
Print or Image Color: Purple and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag looks a whole lot like the 1997 version, but in keeping with modern design, they changed the text to violet.

Virgin Blue V3

Approximate Vintage: 2006
Received From: David Shomper
This fotobag's offer is good until April 30, 2007. Better get your photos in the mail by May. Plus you can mail it anywhere in Australia for free! Need to throw up? Just puke in the bag and drop it in the mail!

The cool thing about this bag is not shown on my site, unfortunately, because a FAQ on how to take pictures is printed in the gusset.

This is the V3 bag.

Virgin Express

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Christian Funch
Print or Image Color: Red and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Gives you the impression of either speed or paint running down a wall.

Virgin Express

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Frederic Courtay
Print or Image Color: Red and Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Virgin Express -- the company that thinks inside the box, if the Virgin logo inside a box is any indication.

Volare Airlines

Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Blue and Violet
Background / Bag Color: Light Purple
Shows a picture of either clouds or enormous birds. Soothing bag in any event.

White Eagle Aviation

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Matthias Koch
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
The white eagle: symbol of power and freedom. Only this white eagle still has an egg tooth. Kind of wimpy if you ask me.

Yemenia

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Manfred Kleber
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Nice art deco sperm logo -- probably a throwback to the time when the airline was called "Semenia". The blocky Arabic writing looks something like a mall's floor plan.

Identical to 2009 version except there stars in the folds instead of some weird eyeglasses logo.

Mark of The Devil ABP

Approximate Vintage: 1971
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This ABP bottomed bag was distributed at a movie by the same name. The bag claims that it is "Positively The Most HORRIFYING Film Ever Made!". The film is also "Rated V for Violence!!!". The bag looks remarkably similar to Cannibal Ferox. It is unknown if the two are related. A quick check of the Internet Movie Database reveals that a film of the same name is dated 1984. This is incorrect. Mark of the Devil is dated 1971. This explanation comes from Joseph Gleason.

a movie named "Mark of the Devil" was released in 1984, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE MOVIE AT WHICH THE BAGS WERE DISTRIBUTED. How do I know? Well, in 1971 when I was small lad of age nine living in Danvers, MA my good friends Ron and Ralph Luscinski of Peabody, MA and I piled into the Luscinski automobile and headed for the West Peabody Cinema to see THE "Mark of the Devil" which was indeed "Rated V for Violence" and where they indeed distributed vomit bags. ALL TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do I remember all this? Well, the movie was just WAY too violent for that nine year old little boy (in fact I remember going to that movie like it was yesterday) and I headed for the exit before the closing credits (LONG BEFORE THE CLOSING CREDITS). I remember standing by myself in the lobby and the usher asking me if I wanted to go outside for some fresh air. When I got outside I remember looking at the movie poster for the other movie playing at the cinema that weekend and it was none other than the James Bond thriller, "Diamonds are Forever" which was released in 1971!

...and that's the way it was all those years ago! Everything written here one hundred percent absolutely true and if you have any doubts I'll have Ron Luscinski e-mail you to verify same. In addition, Ron can tell you all about the movie 'cause unlike me he didn't woos-out! :o) Trust me on all this!

By the way (and on a very sad note) that West Peabody Cinema is now a SYMS Department Store! :o( )

Now according to anonymous kibbitzer gator722@mail.mem.bellsouth.net, it's a German movie called "Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält"

Mark of The Devil

Approximate Vintage: 1971
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Identical to other Mark of the Devil bag, except this one was manufactured by Kard-O-Pak.

Mark of The Devil

Approximate Vintage: 1971
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Identical to other Mark of the Devil bag, except this one was manufactured by Union Camp.

I recently received a donation of 2 of these bags from shot glass collector David Woitasek. He says, "I found these 2 bags in a piano about 15 years ago". Wow, 15 years!!

Spike & Mike's Barf Bag

Approximate Vintage: 1993
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
From Spike & Mike's Extra Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, which travels across the U.S. This one cost me $11.95 since they wouldn't give me one unless I bought a (Godzilla vs. Bambi) T-shirt.

After Use Fold Toward You

Received From: Bob Kukura
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Used extensively as a generic. Republic and Bar Harbor Air Lines are examples of airlines that use/used this bag.
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