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 ...

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

Recently we visited the Nostalgia Museum in Parainen, SW Finland.  A young lad had amassed an impressive variety of vintage items for his pr...

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...

I've finally obtained a complete example of the X-300 Space Cruiser made in 1955 by the Finnish plastics manufacturer Telex! Finding a ...

Hello This is a photo of a space poster my brother had spotted in a local antique store and bought for me. A promotional poster for a Swedis...

A couple of weekends back, with Vintageland and the Old Toy Swap coinciding, it was Heaven on Earth!  I got to spend a good three hours at V...

Re. your blog post on the subject, I sent you these photos of my orange Sears Super Sonic Jetliner back in 2022.  It came up here in Finland...

The best find was the no feet "regular" Pez from the 1960's. In regulars, there is no head other than a simple mechanism to ej...

Hello, Attached a couple of photos of an empty box for an Atlas space rocket, which I bagged from a Finnish auction site Tori.fi.  After pu...

Arto has been kind enough to share pictures of his recent and amazing haul of vintage goodies at the Juthbacka vintage fair on the western c...

I thought you might find this case interesting.  On our way back to north, we stopped at an inaugural Vääksy Antique Fair. A popular event f...