Another Saturday shufty in a few Yorkshire charities in Acomb garnered a few little bits - more to come on those later.
In the meantime, here are some of the other collectables we saw on our day out.
All our Yesterdays, the book of the old Granada TV series. I used to watch it in the 60's or early 70's on ITV. There was another TV series like it called The World at War. Do you remember them?
MB Games Gazza! the Game, when Gazza was in his heyday.
MB boxed game Deflection, a new one on me.
Another new one on me, Sixth Sense by Mind FX Games, the maker's most challenging game since he invented Mastermind! Do you know it?
Waddington's Cube Fusion game was one of the first old board games I found at a car boot circa 1990.
I snapped this |LP because Dorothy Squires used to live near Moonbase. She was once married to Roger Moore of James Bond fame.
I snapped this as well because of the bizarre title, "Man in the 5th Dimension".
This thick book, Best War Comics, at £10, was very pricey for a second-hand book.
An Action Man dog and sled, 1990's.
Two Action Man figures including the astronaut, 1990's.
A real blast from the past, SHOOT! comics from the late Sixties to 1970. Despite no interest in Footy now, back then I bought this comic and supported Don Revie's Leeds United.
Some boxed die-cast are brands I don't know like this Oxford Die-Cast.
Finally, a Matchbuilder boxed kit for making a matchstick steam traction engine. is that something you could do readers?
See anything you fancy?
I could do it Woodsy, but a steam engine ... forget it !
ReplyDeleteNow, a match built Lunar Module, maybe .
I do not recall All Our Yesterdays, but I do have The World At War on DVD. There were 26 episodes, narrated by Laurence Olivier.
ReplyDeleteOxford Diecast is a major modern producer of die-cast collectables, in all the major model railway scales.
I am not sure if my sanity would survive one of those Matchbuilder sets.
Man in the 5th Dimension was a 28 minute colour film shown at the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York. It was a history of Man from the beginning of time up to the Space Age, told from a religious perspective. It was shown once an hour for the duration of the Fair. It was made by World Wide Pictures, and was shot in 70mm Todd AO.
What interests me about this record is the small tram-like vehicle in the lower left hand corner. A tractor unit and three open passenger cars, used to carry people about the Fair. A fleet of these was operated by the big American inter-city bus company Greyhound.
The building in the background of the photograph is the Billy Graham Pavilion at the Fair.
Thanks for the fab material on the fair runabout Paul!
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