Arto over at Helsinki Base picked up a pristine example of this Laramie toy gun and holster boxed set.  By Crescent, (and not Larami!)  it...

Arto sent me these links. Those Jaws are still open!  https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/ancient-mariner-auctio...

Arto picked these up this month.  He explains ... "They are both new old stock, which is quite amazing. Set no 1 has a Finnish instru...

Whilst delving deeper into the history of the Finnish toy manufacturer and importer Telex, I came across this advertisement in our main news...

A while ago Arto found a cute boxed plastic Finnish toy bear by Telex at Finland's Juthbacka fair: This is it, Rukki ja Karhu. One of a ...

Hello Woodsy Just wanted to send you a selection of finds from the Juthbacka Fair which took place again last month. This year proved to be ...

Here are my Space Birds. But which one of the birds came first? To me the Hoover blue bird with its illustrated box comes across as the elde...

Five years ago, I contacted a Danish toy collectors' website in the hopes of finding out more about some mysterious spaceman figures I h...

Woodsy, Re Brian H's Tudor Rose find https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/06/brian-hs-tudor-rose-find.html I dug up this miniature...

The best find was the metallic savings bank akin to the US Strato Bank. They made those money banks with Finnish bank logos printed on. I ha...

Woodsy, Even though the Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future Pop-Up Book from 1953 has been well covered on the Blog before, this piece of informa...

Arto recently picked up the 1950's Spaceways and Adventure Annuals.  Arto says :  I'm thrilled to see those toys, X-300 and the X-40...

Digging into Helsinki Base(ment), I took this photo of my Tri-ang Minic Interplanetary Research Unit Presentation Set. The box set is quite...

In the case of Wittrock (and the X-300) there has been a development. Re. the eBay auction of 2012,  I found my old photo files.  Unfortunat...