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Museum currently exhibits 3161 unique bags.

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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.

Vietjet Air

Approximate Vintage: 2012
Received From: Janusz Tichoniuk
Print or Image Color: White, Red
Background / Bag Color: Red, Yellow
Colorful Vietnamese bag that tells you to Dong something. They also have a hotline to call (if you get sick?)

Lufthansa

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Kate Lukof
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag is identical to the 2012 Lufthansa bag except the company mentioned on the bottom of the bag changed to Spiriant GmbH, whatever the hell that is.

Sichuan Airlines (SCAL)

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: Red, Yellow, Orange, Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag has a nice rainbow on it (if the rainbow is missing green, blue, indigo and voilet). If you look carefully at the URL printed on the bag, it's a string of eight 8s. Who can tell why they own that domain?

CSA (Czech Airlines)

Received From: Burkhard Walther
Print or Image Color: Blue and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Only half the bag is worthy of logos. Nice red dot pattern gives the bag a feeling of texture.

XL

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Denir Camargo
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I suppose this airline could actually be called "40 Airlines" if you're a Roman Numeral weenie, however XL is the name of a now defunct German carrier.

Freebird

Approximate Vintage: 2006
Received From: Matthias Koch
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: Orange
What bag is it you wanna puke in? Freebird!

Thai Airways

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Gilles Beger
Print or Image Color: Purple
Background / Bag Color: Purple and White
Another collector-friendly bag from Thai. It's exactly the same as the 2001, 2003 and 2004 offerings, except the bottom now says, "Thailand 1-2005". It's signed and dated!

Icelandair

Approximate Vintage: 2011
Received From: Ed Sluimer
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Same words, same font, same logo just rearranged. Why did they bother doing this?

Condor

Approximate Vintage: 2011
Received From: Gerd Clemens
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: White
Another great offering from Condor with a sun emerging from the clouds. The bag says:
Im Leben wie an der Tüte gilt
Auf Regen folgt Sonnenschein

Which pretty much means, "What you see on the bag applies in life, sunshine follows rain"

Lot Polish Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Jan Szulew
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
A re-branding of the airline brings forth a new bag, printed on the bottom only where it says "Welcome on board"

Hainan Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Tim Lemmon
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag is an amalgamation of the previous 2 hnair bags. It takes its structure from the gray bag but uses the logo and color of the red back to create this not-so-incredible melange.

Germanwings

Approximate Vintage: 2015
Received From: Rainer Schwartz
Print or Image Color: Purple, Orange
Background / Bag Color: White
Germanwings amalgamates the two different 2013 era bags by keeping the design of one (and ignoring the mutant purple/orange wavy strips) but getting rid of the text. See for yourself.

Fly Niki (Niki Lauda)

Approximate Vintage: 2012
Received From: Vidas Vekerotas
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Although they kept the artsy font, they removed the cool insect from the bag.

SAS

Approximate Vintage: 2015
Received From: Frank Mulliri
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: Blue
SAS keeps tinkering with the bags making them look more modern but still the same.

KLM

Received From: Dean Eckert
Print or Image Color: Blue, Navy
Background / Bag Color: Blue, Navy, White
Identical to the other old KLM bag, but this one sports an advertisement for Primatour motion sickness remedy on the bottom of the bag. And just in case this isn't enough of a drug fix for you, the folds try to sell you Afluvit (for colds and flu) and Pestex Insecticide, just in case the KLM coach seats are suddenly overrun by termites or praying mantises.

Korean Air

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
At first glance, this bag looks identical to the 1989 version, however upon closer scrutiny, you can see that they changed the first line of Korean detail! Perhaps a Korean speaker could help us all understand why.

Flash! Anonymous Korean speaker translates older bag as: "Use in the case you do not feel okay" and newer bag as the more precise: "Use when you experience motion sickness".

TWA

Received From: Ron Jones
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Navy
You can feel the age on this one. Just looking at the jet spewing toxic fumes in its wake is enough of a nostalgic throwback to make you feel really old.

Virgin Atlantic

Approximate Vintage: 2015
Received From: Ann Friday
Print or Image Color: Purple, Red, White
Background / Bag Color: White
After years of awesome, ground-breaking bag designs, Virgin Atlantic returns to its classic design, however the font has changed to a sleeker version and the words "Air Sickness Bag" have disappeared. Kudos to them!

TWA

Approximate Vintage: 1975
Received From: Andrew Angel
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Eerily similar to the 1979 bag, but notice how the TWA logo has changed from that bag. The prices have gone up too. It's hard to remember a time when it cost $1.79 for a roll of film developing. That's excellent! I guess the catch is that you have to develop 126 film. The bag hearkens bag to a time when multi-pupose was king. Not only will this bag hold vomit, but also serves as a film mailer and a gin rummy scorecard. Truly an inspiration.

The reason this is classified as a 1975 bag is because inside the fold it says © 1974 Universal Film Pak. Ltd. Note that the bottom of the bag is worded differently than the 1974 version.

TWA

Approximate Vintage: 1981
Received From: Benay Smith
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This multi-use bag is good for playing Gin Rummy & Film Developing (as well as nausea).