It's strange where collecting can take you. A single chance find can deflect you from the main path along a murky but intriguing back-alley. This happened to me in the early 1990's when I saw a bottle of Talcum Powder. Not just any old talc. James Bond talc! I was shaken.
Alas, having bought it, I sold it years later on my toy stall somewhere. But the bottle by Chertsey, shown below, injected a worm in my brain and I have been fascinated by TV-related toiletries ever since! An odd affliction I admit! I suppose being metal the bottles [or are they technically tins?] do last. Whether the talc retains it's krypton-like power to soothe over the years is a mystery.
Probably the most famous TV talc is the Beatles one by Margo of Mayfair. I've never seen it in the flesh but I can imagine it sold like hot cakes back in the Sixties. Like OO7, everyone wanted to be the fifth Beatle [little did they know that WOTAN already had it in the bag - or should that be in the pram! ha ha!]. I can imagine the marketing men went bananas with it: Be As Dry As A Beatle or Wing Chafe? Apply Beatles Talc!
But for me the talc de la talc has to the beautifully tinned Captain Scarlet Asteroid Talc by The House of Romney. Truly a powder vessel worthy of the indestructible one. I've never held it but I have seen one at a toy fair many years ago. The artwork is excellent and very reminiscent of TV21. With a bit of imagination you could even imagine it to be SWORD talc! I suppose, what with all the scrapes budding young Scarlets will have got themselves into emulating the unkillable Captain, a great deal of talc was required!
Picture: SuperM
Any more talc worth its salt out there? Thunderbirds? Joe 90? Godzilla? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Indeed any tales or pics of TV- related toiletries are welcome at the House of Woodsy!
You know, it's funny but I have absolutely no recollection of Anderson toiletries in the sixties. Mind you as a seven year old and given the choice between a Dinky SPV and some soap I know what I would have chosen. Come to think of it the same would apply today!
ReplyDeleteoddly enough theres a new 007 aftershave been released for men - 'No Mr Bond, I expect you to buy!' Imagine that ? Miss Moneypenny gets a whiff of that, you'd be laughed off the dancefloor.
ReplyDeleteThere were bubble bath bottles in the shape of Stingray and (I think) the SPV in the 1990s. But perhaps these were aimed at adults? I still have a Stingray bottle somewhere...
ReplyDeleteI have some James Bond talc but in a different tin - shorter, squarer.
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