Looey's Day at Dirty Jane's

Dirty Jane's antique market in Bowral NSW Australia is one of the nicer antique stores still around, although I notice their overall prices are creeping up recently...

Viewers in Blighty may derive some amusement from these Colonial prices! ( halve A$ prices to get £!)

So here's a quick squizz from down under...

1) Some Tarzan books caught my eye and I thought "Woodsy would like to see those..

2) Plastic Gorillas and Werewolves, including a Petterson/Gimlin pose Bigfoot - too tasty at $35 each!

3) Wyn Toys, Wyn-Toy Products Pty Ltd, 1940-1982.

Australian made metal toy in fair unrestored condition...

4) Stupid prices on vintage die-casts

5) An amusing Australian Air Force livery, pedal style fighter display. Sadly NFS.

6) "£25 for a pair of plastic Noddy and Big Ears egg cups? Tell 'em they're dreaming!"

7) "Hmm, I recognise that name, what's that doing here? Oh right, this stall is PhotoAntiques. 

My Dad displayed his stuff in their upstairs gallery back in the '90s. This is probably a gift to them, which they're now trying to get a return on!"

Looey

Oz Base

Assorted Centres

 Some recent spots and acquisitions in antiques centres, auctions and shops:

The Grouch Couch, bought for the Grandkids. It grumps, growls and eats objects! 

Spotted in an auction, I did Watch with Mother and loved all these BBC shows on this Chad Valley projector, but just who is Joe? He I dunno! 

Two old sixties soccer annuals for my bro in law, who sadly has Altzheimers. It's his 80th on Sunday and he likes to browse the pictures of football books. He was captain and manager of his team in Leyland.

It's hard to imagine just how famous George Best was back then. A superstar. They called him the fifth Beatle he was so famous! 

This set I saw on Amazon so reminded me of a fossil hunting kit I had as a nipper. I've never been able to find the one I had. Mine was boxed. This comes in a colourful sack. Did you have a kit like this?

Something a little different and relics from my past, seen in an antiques shop in Balby, these two Mary's or very similar ones graced our home as I was growing up. My Mum was quite a religious lady and the house reflected it. Her purse too, full of relics like Padre Pio's cloth.

Was your Mum or Dad religious? 

More Balby bounty, this cabinet held a UFO Interceptor and the wondrous Tow Truck, both of which I adored back in the boomer years.

Now in Wath, I was amazed by this huge plastic toy doll's home cinema outside a charity shop. It reminded me of Looey's! I imagined Action Man and Sindy watching a movie. But which one?

Back in Balby, not sure where this toy train was from but I loved the artwork.

And these old kits caught my eye too. I love that Frog Lifeboat box art!

These massive toy trains by LGB reminded me of my Big Big Train from the Sixties. What a top toy that was!

Finally, I was interested to see the Clifford logo on ..... Children's packs of cards! 

Till the next trip ...

JUNKING IN EMPORIA 2: ZOWIES

 Further junking brought up these bad boys in two emporia: the old Magistrates Court and Etsy, both in Pontefract.

All in good nick and just one pound each. Bargain!

I was particularly chuffed with the little Zowies, those comical miniature Hot Wheels with tyres too small for the redline they deserved. I had these as a kid and they ran on lino really well. These three take my small collection to five.

Do you remember Zowies?

JUNKING IN EMPORIA 1: ROBOCOP

 Going junking in emporia is fun and seems to be one in most town centres these days. Shops and halls of glass cabinets filled with various sellers' vintage goods.

Here's an item I recently found going for a song in Wetherby.

This is a nice solid Toy Island Robocop figure from 1993. There's a button I haven't pressed yet! Wonder what that does?

I was surprised how many toys emanated from this movie  [like Terminator] as it was so violent and clearly not for kids. It may have been the subsequent TV series that spawned the toys. I'm not sure.

I remember seeing the large toy vehicles like the ambulance that went with this figure in a German department store called Karstadt in 1994 and wondering if I could get one in my suitcase to bring home. I didn't and forgot to look in UK toy shops for them. Impulse is everything!

I was reading in Autoweek that the Robocop TV series popularised the Hummer. 

Is that the same as a Humvie? 

Here's the Toy Island's hummer Tactical Field Ambulance, the same as I saw in Karstadt 30 years ago.

Did you have any Robocop toys readers?

Did you like the Robocop film or the TV series?

Unhurried at Harrisons

 I wandered round Harrison's Emporium near Rotherham today with a mate. Here's a few snaps of what we saw.

See anything you like?

Fry's chocolate cream. I adored it as a kid. The fruit version too. Remember that?

I'm on the lookout for this but not for £70!

A Messerschmitt!

Our Sixties house was full of wooden animals, especially antelopes. Was yours?

A Vosper boat! 

Ace toy rifle.

Lovely annuals but dear inc. Fireball XL5 ...

And Joe 90.

A domed doll

Moreno hanging star. Cor!

One of several Tretchikoffs.

Waddingtons Air Charter. A gorgeous boxed game.

Big League game among these.

Old pinballs.

These wooden vikings were all over my parents' house, most often as bottle openers.

Not sure what make of car this pedal car is. You?

Tons of die-cast.

SPV and missile carrier.

Tinplate and a Paddlewagon.

My Thrushbuster that I bagged sans button. Was £8. This complete one's £40.

And another Thrushbuster!

And the one I got.

Trains

Black Hole flask

Kris, one of which I had as a young teenager along with a Kukri as part of my Martial Arts collection. I borrowed a Samurai sword from my Uncle George for a year too circa 1974, for study.

Captain Birdseye? The Fish finger guy?

Britains Mini Sets. American Indians. I loved these sets as a kid.

Toy soldiers

A real egg grenade!

Yet another Thrushbuster!

Modern Mego invisible man

And an MSV to finish. Did you have one or the cycling Citroen next to it?