With folks desperate to buy and sell in the fresh air again we went to our first Tuesday car boot sale today.
Besides a few baby clothes and kids books we got a chicken egg rolling game and a Play-doh launching game for Junior. To keep my need for cheapo plastic satisfied I got the following bunch of goodies or tat depending on how you see it! All very cheap!
The big vehicle is a 1978 Fisher Price Fire Engine. £2. Incomplete but I'll enjoy cleaning it up. I found the little Marx TV and the unidentified milk crates in our CD case so I chucked them in the photo for good measure!
The four figures are left to right: unknown Hanna Barbera ghost, 1988 Britains jousting horse, cheapo Tarzan figure [a bit of a blog legend] and a 1983 ROTJ Rebel Commando who refuses to stand up. £1 the 4.
Quick mention of the Marx TV, which I may have done before. The colour pic of a young girl has come away inside, which is a shame. Dated 1964.
As always we reluctantly said no to some larger more expensive items, notable of which were more or less the same as these examples I found online:
Fisher Price Little People A Frame House, £10 - not as complete.
Sunrise Portable Organ. £5.
Little Miss China Tea Set. £5.
and the Matchbox Goods Yard playset, loose. £5 - may not have complete.
There was also a real Walker and Hill tea pot similar to but not the same as the one Lady Penelope uses in Thunderbirds, which I've blogged before.
What do you think?
Are you visiting sales readers?
I’d have snapped up the train set, but the rest wouldn’t have given me pause unfortunately!
ReplyDeleteI would also have jumped on the Matchbox train set - very nice.
ReplyDeleteI also had that Tarzan figure, which I converted into a Zulu warrior following an article in Military Modelling magazine. I think mine was a pink, flesh-colour, with the hair, loincloth, and base touched in; I can not recall if there was any detail painting to the face - possibly the eyes ? Mine came loose in a counter box of wild animals in the early or mid 1970s.
Drat. I knew that Lesney goods yard was collectable. Ah well. Off to another car boot sale this morning!
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