Looking through some old prints I came across a shot of me sitting beneath three deep frame pictures at some point in the late 1990's. I've edited the picture to remove my ugly mug, although you can just see my old military prop cap.
You know the kind of frames on the wall. Wooden boxes with glass fronts. From Ikea. Small collections can be hung up and displayed quite easily.
I used to do this a lot.
The three in this poor photo of a photo are my daughter's old Mickey Mouse collection - she had some great stuff; my Secret Wars action figures painstakingly located at 90's car boot sales and finally three space toys stood up portrait style.
These three toys were an X-series X40 blue and red rocket [yes, I had one before I even knew what it was!], a Masudaya plastic wind-up Robbie the Robot and a red mini Robot given to me by a close friend for safe keeping.
Only the mini-Bot remains of this lot I think as I flogged everything else when I had a toy stall and Ebay shop years ago.
Do you have small collections on the wall readers?
Have you less stuff than you used to have?
Now the most popular for toy collecting is IKEA Detolf, cheap glass case.
ReplyDeleteAlso I have few IKEA KALLAX (most people use it for Vinyl records or for placing game console) as a book case etc.
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They look like super display cupboards and units Ran. IKEA is a godsend for collectors and their displays the world over!
DeleteNow that you mention it,I was thinking of displaying Movie Monster toys in my bedroom(particularly Creature from the Black Lagoon)and these kind of shelves are what I envisioned.Certainly beats having them in plastic totes stashed in the closet!
ReplyDeleteSounds great Brian. I have a monster and space cabinet in my bedroom! I remember a fab Creature display in a cabinet in Hitakara's book on Monsters and Space and Robots. I have it somewhere and post a pic. It was the forst toy reference book I ever got around 1989. Our pet guinea pig Jonny Pig chewed the corners off! ha ha
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