I wish I had a photo of my old key ring collection I had as a kid in the Sixties and early Seventies.
It was quite big and wide-ranging. I didn't have any keys. I just liked them.
Friends and family brought them back for me from trips away and I bought them myself although I've no idea where we bought trinkets like that in those days. I suppose they were called Fancy Goods rather than being actual toys.
I had all sorts and the ones I can call to mind were:
- small plastic toilet
- metal flexible fish
- plastic bottle that turned into a pen
- bible
- photo concertina book
- Eiffel tower
- blue globe
- watneys beer barrel [pictured]
- esso blue man
- rubber tyre compass
- skull
- skeleton
- something I looked into like a TV or viewer with small pictures inside
- dice shaker
- cocktail shaker
- penlight
- Thunderbirds figures
- die-cast cap gun like a revolver, Luger or Derringer
- shell oil shell
- tape measure
- gorilla
There were also some risque ones made of moving metal figures, which often had crowds round in the school playground!
I loved my old key ring* collection. Did you have one?
* sometimes called key charms. Not key fobs, they were for adults' car keys!
I remember having the metal articulated fish keyring as a kid, Woodsy. I was intrigued by its swishy articulation. I had an old biscuit tin where I kept little treasures like the keyring, pin badges, plastic cereal premiums, and a single unearthed lead soldier, plus large old pennies which I often seemed to find back then. Sadly the biscuit tin horde and metal fish keyring have long since vanished in the mists of time. Although I do still have the single lead soldier as a reminder of my childhood treasure hunting days.
ReplyDeleteTreasure boxes were fab weren't they Tony. I'm surprised no toy firm ever sold them as such. I don't recall any anyway. That flexi fish was very popular I think. Like the little blue globe. Funny how lead soldiers travel through time with us. Must be to do with being tough. I have four small samurai, which have been my mates since the early seventies.
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