Selby Saunter

 A stroll around Selby in North Yorkshire is always fun, specially a rummage in the CC charity Shops and a sausage sarnie in the Cafe.

Here's some of the stuff seen today.

Anything you like?

A bag of old die-cast for a tenner.

Inside were two Redlines. The bag came home.

A neat Matchbox lunch box. The yellow top is a flask. This came home too.

I wondered if these were the same as Lady Penelope's tea pots?

No idea what this small dolls suit is.

Ceramic Danish trolls!

Star Wars hand-held ship wigglers. There are two. Alas, no ships. The two came home.

Old plane guides.

Another bag of cars. This had a hole in the back. I reckon someone's been in!

I think this is a pipe stand. Or specs. Definitely not slippers. Did your Dad smoke a pipe?

Flying V ukuleles a la Wishbone Ash, who I'm going to see live again in September.

Barnsley Bounty

A mooch round Barnsley's charity shops this week was fun. 

My inexpensive haul this time: three built-up plastic kit aircraft, four lovely red vinyl fairy tale 45's including Cinderella narrated by Dickie Attenborough and a paperback by Leo Kessler. 

These will all be tidied up and form part of my winter sale on eBay, funds generated to finance my ongoing VHS project. 

The three empty video cases are for said project too. Trucks, the novel, is now part of my 80's pulp horror paperback shelf.

The old Waddingtons Ashore game is the Missusses for the Grandkids.

See anything you like? 

Ponty Packed

 Missus Moonbase and me have been out to Pontefract dropping off charity bags and mooching round them at the same time.

Ponty's turning out to be a good place for vintage toys and stuff with its well-stocked  charity shops, the Etsy shop and the Magistrates Court packed with goodies.

My only purchase was a bargain I thought, £3 for all these old badges. There's some good ones you'll no doubt remember: Sky Ray Moon Fleet, One with TV Times Tivvy, Man from Uncle Bubble Gum, Batman, P'Nut Spaceman (What's that?) and more. I was chuffed with Aztecs, which I adored as a kid; Bruce Lee and Fantastic, a comic I got as a nipper. 

Did you have any of these?

More stuff I saw were:

Trikes, bikes and a colossal crane lamp.

Triang pedal car

Soviet pedal car, also in blue too 

One of many Star Wars figures cabinets

Raleigh Chopper, £1200! Ouch! I had one as a kid. Did you?

Lots of action figures

90's Stingray Marineville

Big Trak and figures including Rock Lord and Dungeons and Dragons.

See anything you like?

Skipton Bits

 A few things caught my eye on a recent mooch in the Charity shops of Skipton

This unusual picture could well have been a depiction of my fave song by Canadian rockers Rush, By Tor and The Snow Dog. It's an epic guitar battle between good and evil and even introduced me a new word as a young teenager, Tobes as in the Tobes of Hades. I still don't know what a tobe is! Ha ha.

Have you heard the song?

This implement took me back to my Mum's kitchen in the Sixties.  I showed it my older sister and she said it was a palette knife. So readers, myself being a useless cook, what do you do with it?

Another blast from my parents home, we had a group of these Masai paintings on the walls.  Very stylised and of their time, I'm not sure they'll fly now.

In Oxfam books I clocked the original novel, which I inspired a brilliant film I love, The Riddle of the Sands.

Starring the late Matthew McCorkindale and Michael York, it's the story of duck hunting in the Friesian Isles at the turn of the Century. Sounds boring but it isn't. Those ducks are packin'!

These caught my eye.

I've seen something odd-looking before like the Vaderesque troops on the Cataclysm cover, this little pot astronaut and helmeted spaceman in Kitaharia's fantastic Yesterday's Toys.

I was thinking of another duck-faced ceramic astronaut too, but which book is it in? To follow.

Another amazing Vargo Staten cover, that spaceship could almost be the Project SWORD Task Force 2!

Anything here you like readers?

Berwick, Yesteryear and the Mystery Oriental Archer

A recent ramble round the old Roman town of Castleford taught us a lot about Roman life in Northern England but there wasn't much in the charity shops.

I did see this jigsaw puzzle of a car I'm pretty sure I had as a Yesteryear as s kid. But what was it?

I also clocked this boxed draughts set by Berwick, who were a popular toy company when I was a kid. Did you have any Berwick toys? 

The box art screams the 1960's, a graphics style I love. Do you?

And I'm still trying to ID this action dolls dressed in oriental garb, complete with plastic long bow and quiver. He's about 12 inches tall, like an Action Man

 I've a female red ninja too. 

As per usual I should have bought all 8 or so figures the boot sale seller had but I just got the two. Returning to the same stall last week all the other figures had gone. Serves me right! 

There are no makers marks at all in the visible areas.

Any ideas who he is readers?

Wetherby, Hull and Fitzwilliam: Touring for Toys and Tat

 I picked this Ass pump toy clown at Fitzi boot sale recently. Hailing from the former East Germany the pump cable would usually make the clown do a sort of press up. My pumps broke.

Have you seen anything like it before? 

This book cover caught my eye. Is that a toy die-cast on the cover?

Waterstones in Hull had a decent shelf of graphic novels.

Modern remakes of some classic games.

A Hull icon now sadly shut, Bob Carvers chippy, home of the Hull pattie.

I would have loved this as a kid, dig out skulls! Great box art! 

And yep, the Spiders got a blue plaque at Hull Station.

We're you a Bowie fan?

Saw this trunk in Thorpe Arch. It's from New South Wales! 

And this lovely Zorro bagatelle came home with me today.

Do you like it?

Selby Saunter

A wander round one of our fave towns, Selby, is always fun and today I spotted a few things in the Charities that I thought I'd share.

This Chinese calligraphy set would have been a treat when I was a young teenager in my Kung Fu days. I think the ink rod is grated on the stone with water to produce usable ink. Not sure if the spoon is original. 

This charity had a great stock of old kids books ...

... Including Coral Island published by Bancroft. I loved this hardback as a kid and it's companion Treasure Island. Truly gorgeous cover art. Did you have any Bancrofts?

On the rear is a list of other classic titles.

This Hoppit game is a new one on me. Fabulous box art. I was tempted! 

Not sure what this large white Sports car was. Probably Barbie's ride. Or maybe the Captains?

These two old boxed models were in a window. Quite dear but they looked great I must say. Anyone know them?

This old Spaceflight book was interesting.

There's even a make your own ANT model double-spread! 

I came home with a 1970 softback on Tutunkhamun, £1, that I had as a kid and a boxed set of the Keaton/ Kilmer Batman movie CD's for £2, much cheaper than streaming.

We also bought a bureau.

See anything you like?