I love this old paint tin with its spacey lid!
I'm pretty sure I had something like this as a kid. This was advertised on the Spanish Todocolleccion auction site.
I recognise the space station as one of the cereal premium kits from R and L's space series. Don't recognise the other images.
These tins usually contained two rows of boxed water colours and a slot for and with a paint brush. Neat and simple.
The indented inner lid was where you could mix your paints for that meisterwerk you were doing!
Did you have a Spacey paint tin?
Addendum: Reader James sent us his gorgeous tin of space paint!
Yes, but not that one. Under the label Toy Shops there is a film clip entitled The Vintage Toy Monster Shop, dated 15 March 2020. Right at the beginning, as the camera moves across the shop window, there is a space paint box - that is the one I had. It is metal, and has a boy and girl in space helmets riding a giant paint brush through space, heading towards the moon. It is called the Fantabulous Paint Box. It was metal, and inside there were cut-outs for small pans of solid water colour paint. Two or three rows (I can not remember exactly) above and below another cut-out for the paint brushes. This would date from the 1960s. I had it until only a few years ago. It had become rusty, and was thrown out during my last house move. I wish now I had kept it, even with the rust. The artwork was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely little pieces of ephemera, commonplace at the time and quickly thrown away after the paints got ruined!
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