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Tuesday 24 January 2017

collecting key rings in the 1960's


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:
  1. small plastic toilet
  2. metal flexible fish
  3. plastic bottle that turned into a pen
  4. bible
  5. photo concertina book
  6. Eiffel tower
  7. blue globe
  8. watneys beer barrel [pictured]
  9. esso blue man
  10. rubber tyre compass
  11. skull
  12. skeleton
  13. something I looked into like a TV or viewer with small pictures inside
  14. dice shaker
  15. cocktail shaker
  16. penlight
  17. Thunderbirds figures
  18. die-cast cap gun like a revolver, Luger or Derringer
  19. shell oil shell
  20. tape measure
  21. 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!
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  1. Tony k1/24/2017 3:45 pm

    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.

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    1. WOODSY1/25/2017 3:50 pm

      Treasure 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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