Back in the day dad used to go to watch fob shows. He collected them and had a pretty good sized drawer about half full of them. A lot were from farm and heavy equipment companies as well as a lot of the local buisnesses around home had them made up to give out. We used to write to Cat, Erie and other equipment companies asking for fobs back in the 1970's. Dad had four made up for his buisness as give away. Holmes Oil sold Sinclair products, the first two had a Sinclair delivery truck on them, the third one was in the shape of the Sinclair Dino sign and the last one was made up like an ARCO sign after they bought out Sinclair. I think dads were made by a company in Marietta Ohio by a guy named George. Anyways, as with all collectibles, be aware of repos, fake and fantasy fobs. They were making fakes back in the 1970s already. I think that was one of the reasons dad lost a lot of interest in the fob hobby.
