Hello Paul,
Back in the 50's one of the 'craft' things kids were encouraged to do was scrapbooking.
Back in Victorian times very elaborate sheets of scraps were produced, mostly in Germany.
They were made in Britain into the 70's. I found my stash of sheets, putting aside the nursery rhymes and little animals here are the manly ones, cars and planes dating from about 1960.
For me there is something very appealing about these colourful die-cut sheets, maybe other blog readers will remember them.
Keep well,
Brian
US
Those are so nice. Yes, I had scraps - no idea if I still have any squirreled away somewhere. There were also sheets with ships, soldiers, spacecraft, railways - just about everything that might appeal to a small boy.
ReplyDeleteGreat- those lorry scraps are just so evocative of the past.
ReplyDeleteThis one brings fond memories Brian, thanks for posting. Those rectangular scraps (or "four-corners", as we called them) must have been the first thing I ever collected. They were given out to us younglings in Sunday School, after you attentively listened to what the mistress had to say about matters celestial. Some psalm chanting, and you were allowed to leave with a scrap featuring a fruit that, embossed and in bright colours, seemed almost hyperreal, or with an aeroplane, or a train.
ReplyDeleteThus was born the first collector mania. Used all my pocket money on those rectangulars that were sold at a local groceries in sheets of eight, just like above. There was also one great bonus to my hobby at school: it made me popular among girls with the same collecting interest.
Still got the collection of ca. 400 different rectangulars from childhood. Later in life, I have collected full sheets of space-related scraps and some other motifs (early Disney, The Phantom etc.)
So many memories, thanks again Brian!
So pretty!
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