Tuesday, 10 January 2023

OUTER PLATE MEN

 

I just liked this when I saw it on auction so I saved the pic.

The compartmented card art recalled my beloved Colurforms Outer Space Men.

The old graphics of muskets and drums takes me right back to the Sixties and Seventies.

I would have loved this as my light switch plate. You?

5 comments:

  1. Paul Adams from New Zealand1/10/2023 6:11 am

    I would have loved it too. I never saw anything like this in New Zealand, just boring, plain white plastic. The card says: Manufactured for and copyrighted 1972 by Nevco Products Co. Inc., Yonkers, N.Y. 10701 - Made in British Hong Kong. So that gives us a date.
    Did you mean the 1960s or the 1860s ?

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    1. ha ha, I meant the 1960's Paul, my childhood years. Oddly enough I saw the very same waste bin I had in my bedroom in a junk shop recently. It was metal and pictured old timer cars around it, which were a popular graphic at the time. I even had old timer car wall paper!

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  2. A futuristic one with a 'sci fi airlock' vibe, I would have loved. This one, with its American Civil War look, not really.

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    1. Yep, an airlock, that would have been cool Mish!

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  3. I've just noticed the word Outlet on the card. Is that the American term for a switch? Or is it a socket?

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