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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.

After Use Fold Toward You

Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Same as other 'After Use Fold Toward You' except the useless horizontal line doesn't go all the way across the bag.

Austrian Generic

Received From: Gerhard Lang
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Sporting the "Abfall Waste Dechets" mantra of Austrian Airlines, this offering is extrememly generic.

Bag Made in Canada (Generic)

Received From: Mike Roselle
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Wow, could they be any less specific?

Do You Want

Received From: Christian Annyas
Print or Image Color: Purple and Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Besides having a really nice layout, this bag poses the open-ended question, "do you want...". What could this mean? Here are just a few of the possbilitites (or suggest your own):
    do you want...
  • fries with that?
  • to dance under the moonlight?
  • to die?
  • to quit smoking?
  • this stupid list to end?

Professional Bagster, Paul Van de Keere, who is actually an employee of De Ster Belgium chimes in with the definitive answer saying it 'is a neutral airsicknessbag of the articles sold by the firm "De Ster", travel division of Duni Sweden'. In any event, Paul never did reveal what the enigmatic words, 'Do you want?' are suppposed to mean.

Gray Generic Falzen

Received From: Christoph Vogel
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Gray
Christoph found this bag on a cruise, but oh no! I wonder how many of those got printed? The German word for fold, 'falten' is misspelled as 'falzen'. However, I've seen the word 'falzen' on other bags, such as Transat, so just what is proper?

Mystery solved! According to fastidious Swiss bagman Stefan Zingg, While it is true that the "generic" word for "to fold" is "falten", the word "falzen" also exists. It means "to fold" as a bookbinder would do it, carefully, using a paper-knife. So while I myself would write "falten" onto such a bag, "falzen" isn't wrong, depending how carefully you do are intended to fold it."

What's a paper knife? The best I can come up with is from the Frank Zappa song called Flakes. "I'm a moron and this is my wife, she's frosting a cake with a paper knife. All that we got here's American made, it's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed".

Light Blue Generic

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Stephan Zilverberg
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
I am enamored with this bag because it's multi-purpose. It can be used on planes, ships, or busses (but not trains!). This gem was found on Air Anatolia. Oh and by the way, what a great name this donor has! What are the odds?

Made in Canada (Generic)

Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
I guess the logo you see is some internationally recognized symbol for Canada.

Motion Sickness Bag Generic

Received From: Cara Dubcak
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
This envelope contains a plastic barf bag, however in an unusual packaging decision, the envelope is sealed. Very similar to, but palpably lighter colored than the KC-135 bag.

Navy Blue Generic

Received From: Christopher Wren
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Navy
This bag looks a lot like Northwest, but without the telltale horizontal stripes. However, the font is all wrong. Ben Guttery asserts that this is a generic used on United, Northwest and others.

Navy Blank Generic

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Itamar Rotlevi
Background / Bag Color: Navy Blue
This is a totally forgettable bag used on TWA, Lan Chile, and others.

Peel, Fold, and Seal Generic

Received From: Noa Miller
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
This one is made from recycled paper!

Plane, Bus, Boat, Train Generic

Received From: Christian Annyas
Print or Image Color: Navy and White
Background / Bag Color: Navy and White
Apparently the artist that designed this bag dropped out of art school immediately after learning how to draw perspective from only one angle.

Red Generic

Received From: Christian Annyas
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Has the ubiquitous plane, ship, and bus pictures on the bag -- none of which seem to be experiencing any trace of a rough ride whatsoever. Ulrik Christensen says this bag comes from Air Bosna.

Sic-Sac

Approximate Vintage: 1983
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Envelope type mechanism. It's compact, but hard to get at. This bag differs from the other one of this vintage because the company's zip code changed to 73147 from 73107.

Sic-Sac

Approximate Vintage: 1983
Received From: AJ Jacobs
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Envelope type mechanism. It's compact, but hard to get at. This bag differs from the other one of this vintage because the company's zip code changed to 73107 from 73147.

Tan Generic

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Ron Frashure
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: Tan
Used on Exel and Air Antarctica among others

White Generic Airsicknessbag

Received From: Britta Bebensee
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
This is the genericest of the generics. I don't know how you could possibly make a more generic bag, unless you un-italicized the word "Airsicknessbag".

Snoop Doggy Bag

Approximate Vintage: 2005
Received From: Erin Hanson
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
WILD 101-FM in Toronto created this gem which, although it doesn't say barf bag anywhere on it, seems to be a nice addition to this collection.

Crossfit

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Keith Wittenstein
Print or Image Color: Blue, White
Background / Bag Color: Black, Gray
In New York City, the Crossfit Fitness center has come up with a difficult workout called "The Black Box". In fact, it kicks your butt so much, you might get sick and need a barf bag. In fact, the bag says, "You'll be fine... Have a mint!"

Food Standards Agency (UK)

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Rusty Odihiri
Print or Image Color: Black and Green
Background / Bag Color: White
In order to combat food poisoning in the UK, an independent governmental group called the 'Food Standards Agency' felt an Air Sickness Bag would serve their purpose of spreading the word about food contamination. The bag suggests that if you're not careful, food will spoil, make you sick, and throw up. How does the bag suggest you avoid such problems? Just 4 simple steps:
  1. Wash Your Hands
  2. Open Your Refrigerator
  3. Light a match
  4. Wait For Snow
Sounds so very simple, doesn't it?
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