I and another member here have been researching over the last 6 months or so the market for Vintage lisa frank items and how hard it is to track down certain designs and whatnot
So far here is what i have learned (price guide coming soon!) :
As for design right now i know the rarer designs seem to be these:
-ANY mash up designs of multiple vintage characters
-Persian Cat with jewels with cityscape in background (not new updated version)
-Luv 2 shop Pink cat in car
-Max and Mini splash (combo together only)
-Gypsy piggy
-White Tiger
-Aloha dalmations
-Miss Furonica cat
-aloha penguin with mohawk
-Rainbow tigers (3 with tropical flowers)
-Purple horse with Rainbow Hair
-Fantasea castle dolphins scene (i will trade well for these!)
-Raccoon family
-Dog and Cat married couple
-Holiday designs such as halloween, christmas, easter, and birthday
-Skye the Pegasus
-Zorbit and zoomer the aliens
-Miss galaxy aliens
-Spotted dolphins with treasure
-Spotted Bunnies with flowers
-Carousel Unicorns
-Poodle with Phone
-Purple spaniels (violet and velvet) flying kite on beach
-The original blonde Shelle the mermaid on phone (not the newer version with green hair)
-Deep sea mouse divers with fish bowl
-Cleocatra
-Yellow aloha cat with sunglasses and tropical flowers
-Cheerleader Bears (someone recently flooded the market with what seems like a stash of the sticker sheets recently though, all other forms like folder/stationery seem to still be rare)
-Fairy with Koi fish pond
Not rare but sought after/popular designs:
-Markie unicorn and Moon
-Markie unicorn and Mom
-Ballerina Bunnies
-Hugging Penguins
-Casey and Caymus in desert with blue bunny
-Dashly the Hummingbird
-Max splash
-Casey and candy dessert puppies on beach
-Hunter the leopard
-Sunfower Kittens
-Roary the polar bear
-Kitten Bubbles
-Puppy pearls maltese
Rare Items:
-Deck of Playing Cards (extremely rare and sought after, these hardly ever come up for sale and the images on google of them that come up are either mine or one other girl who claims to own a deck... i have one deck loose and one deck moc)
-Vintage bedding (sheets, fabric etc.)
-Mint unused Diaries (the locking kind, only the older design ones like kitten bubbles)
-Anything from the dream writers gel pen line (thats not a human design). like the black paper stationery and write on stickers.
-Unused Stationery (especially die cut)
-MINT bead mania Kits (vintage 90's only)
Sought after items:
-Stationery boxes (not sticker boxes)
-Stationery Tins
-Zipper Binders/trapper keepers, and trifold binders (vintage characters only)
-Back packs, bags and lunch boxes
-Flip organizers (vintage characters only)
Hard to find items:
-Old catalogs (yes people want these lol!)
-Old lisa frank club magazines
-Holiday stickers
-Stickers mint in the packages or in the sticker roll boxes
*phew* ill add more info later