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Vintage memorabilia The older i get the more i love vintage collectibles and old memorabilia WHERE CAN YOU FIND VINTAGE AND RETRO COLLECTIBLES TODAY? Well it's easier than everto collect old vintage memorabilia . Join the collectors forums and web sites Keep watch on items on ebay Subscribe to newsletters and site feeds Visit local auctions Join and online of offline clubs Amongst the top ...
Vintage Postcard Collecting Along with tea cards and football stickers, postcard collecting is another collectible many kids have pursued at one point or another in there childhood. Ask and collector of postcards and they will tell you there are several things you must know beofre becoming a serious collector. Postcards can go for hundreds or even thousands ...
Tin ToysA tin toy, or to be pedantic a tin lithograph toy, is a mechanical toy made out of tinplate and normally painted by chromolithography to resemble primarily a character or vehicle.Tin toy robots are a highly collectable type of tin toy. Classics like the Mr Atomic Robot, and Robby the Robot from the movie ...
Corgi Cars Corgi Toys is the name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles produced by Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. in the United Kingdom. The Mettoy company was founded in 1933 in Northampton, England A market a range of toy vehicles was planned for the Corgi Toys company as competition to Meccano's Dinky Toys model vehicles which had ...
Silly Putty This may sound a silly question, but what was Silly Putty originally called? The answer, Nutty Putty As with most beginnings, they often happen by accident. Silly Putty is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World ...
Who remembers the Slinky? Back in the 50s and 60s the Slink was a toy every kid was proud to have. Most remember the Slinky as a loose spring that can travel down stairways. Slinky wasn't overly expensive and so was easily achievable for kid’s pocket money. Richard James demonstrated it at a toy department in Philadelphia ...
Mister Magoo, a nearsighted grumpy old duffer, who turned up on our screens in 1949. His first name is Quincy. Quincy Magoo was patterned after several real-life people. It seems the main inspiration for the character was the screen presence of comedian W. C. Fields, though it's claimed the character was the collaborative efforts of the ...
Ben hur Ben-Hur has to be one of the greatest epic films ever made. Made in 1959 the Ben-Hur movie was based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ben-Hur won a record breaking eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture Judah Ben-Hur is played by Charlton Heston and is a wealthy merchant of noble blood ...
How exciting it is if tyou find the key to your old toy chest trunk. My toy chest was an old rusty trunk. After spending many years in our summer house, it was cleaned up and became the toy trunk for many years. It did have a lockable area but we never knew of a key. You ...
Marble tracks Whether wooden or plastic, these were a great toy to have as a kid. I can remember making all sorts of contraptions and automated processes with the gravity of one marble. I'm sure we were the original Wallace and Grommit at school me and my mate as we could almost enable the marble trach ...
