Slim Pickens today, our last trip to Thorpe Arch boot sale this year.
A forty minute drive is too much for a dwindling outdoor sale reduced solely to traders with only the odd family braving the cold with a stall. We'll start going again next year.
My only purchase was the 50p mystery man dated 2016. Any ideas folks?
The Missus and me had a car boot stall this morning at the local sale. We did OK and sold quite a lot of unwanted bits and bobs. Same again, next week, the last of the year before Winter arrives.
As usual, as there were two of us, we were each able to have a wander and a rummage. I personally like lots of house clearance boxes (bit sad I know) to rifle through and here's my inexpensive £3 haul for ID'ing and fixing. Well, it keeps me off the streets!
See what you think. Anything you like?
Rear: 1984 MOTU Battle Bones, just missing the backbone pins.
LtoR: unknown clockwork doll, Mertrade van, unknown pirate, unknown Disner figures, Dr.Who Tardis salt and pepper pots, MASK bike copter, Thrushbuster spares, TAT truck, unknown Laurel and Hardy figs.
We stood at a boot sale today.
As is traditional when two do it then each gets to have a wander!
My el cheapo haul today was thus:
Standing at the local boot sale this morning, I left the Missus on the stall and had a mosey.
One thing I saw was a plastic toy tuk tuk or rickshaw car with a small seated figure.
A bit like this one online but not the same. I'd spent up so didn't get it.
It's mid-week and that means car booting.
This week's haul was fun to bag. All cheap and cheerful.
See what you think.
LtoR:
Mixer to fix, Road Monster, Barbie dog for our Granddaughter, Emergency TV jigsaw, Nacoral duck car to fix.
Rexard dolls, Roboom transformer to fix, Anglo Captain Scarlet cards set ( need checking), Japanese tin jet, action figures including Dr. Malcolm and '79 Boba Fett, toy soldiers and astronauts, solid metal planes ( make unknown)
Fixing toys is heaven for me. Wednesday is my favourite day!
This week's haul at the local boot sale is a mish mash of different stuff.
See what you think.
This little fella is by Marx and as yet is unidentified. I have his legs.
I spent about a tenner on this lot. Great fun as always looking for old toys.
See anything you like? Can you ID the mysteries?
This week's catch so far:
See what you think?
In Wetherby, a large David Bowie framed print £5
Japanese phones ( came with long green wire): needs attention, 30p
I passed on a boxed set of Denys Fisher Speed Burners ( Mego 1974). £25 was too steep for me but the two golden cars were fabulous.
I need to start selling now!
I didn't bag any Star Wars down today's boot sale, but I did get some nice stuff.
The plastic bell jar skeleton is from 1991, the cast Romans from 2000 and the two figures are Thunderbirds are Go 2015.
I dropped on with the Bandai Terrahawks for a fiver the two. The Snorkel tender will be fun to do up with parts from the plastic Teamsterz one. Similarly Ill clean up the Goofy car and Plymouth Gran Fury.
The two other die-casts are for my cabinet, a lovely gold Superkings Merc from 1974 and a fabulous black Toyota Crown from Universal Hobbies. This car has four passengers and all are either gangsters or FBI. This is my fave buy today, just 50p!
What do you like readers?
Today I bagged a decent haul of cheap and interesting tat down at Fitzwilliam's bid Wednesday boot sale. Lots of vintage toys to be had along with knick knacks galore.
Been to a few places this week, an emporium in Rotherham and a boot sale in Fitzwilliam. Both great fun in Spring sunshine.
Here are my purchases.
LtoR: All about Cars by Century 21/ Corgi £2, KO Action Man (I think) 50p, two Lanard GI Joes £1 each, Kirk 50p, Dalek bubble bath £8 and a 2003 long robot vehicle £2. No idea what it is, I just loved it!
I also picked up a Beastmaster pre-cert big box VHS for £1. Not pictured.
Anything you like readers?
Mooching round Thorpe Arch boot sale this Mother's Day morning. There's a brisk wind and a Spring chill.
I saw these annuals on a stall. Champion the Wonder Horse is not one you often see. I liked that show as a kid, with it's catchy theme tune.
Is there anything you would have got?
A recent car booting trip proved fun. I bagged this trio of vintage toys that came back to Moonbase with me.
The two carded figures are the only two carded figures I own and at £15 for the pair I couldn't resist.
I've been aware of Playmates' Dick Tracy figures for decades, including the fabled Blank and this Lips Manlis is a trip down memory lane.
Captain Power is not a line I know at all really but this carded Chase figure was in such fab condition I got it as well.
The huge green Action Man tank is not the Cherilea original but the later Sunny Smile release, which I think is the same as Strike Force. It just needs a dusting and some of the decals re-glueing before going on maneuvers. A snip at £4 I thought.
Are these toys you know readers?
A few times selling on Ebay I have hit the jackpot. Well, my jackpot, anything over a tenner! ha ha.
This was one such sale five years ago, the small blue creature in the middle of the shot. Found in a box of tat at a car boot sale and purchased with the other figures for peanuts.
After some research at the time during the pandemic I discovered that the plastic creature was in fact a premium from an obscure line of lucky bags called Horror n Heroes, which have a collectors' cult following. The blue creature was and is a prized collectable for fans! The Chimera. Who knew!
You can read more about Horrors n Heroes here on the sadly now defunct Fantasy Toy Soldiers blog.
I'd never seen a Chimera before and haven't seen one since.
Have you?
Feels like ages since we visited a Sunday car boot sale, but today we braved the Autumn cold and headed to Wetherby, where stalls of goodies and a small fry-up awaited.
The breakfast café fry-up was frugal but tasty - me and the Missus are on a diet called 'intermittent fasting' - no food now till this evening!
The stalls were interesting too.
What do you think of my meagre catch readers including some freebies?
Does it follow that the sculptor was in Glasgow too, maybe in the 1950's or 60's?
Anyone recognise anything in this picture?
Further amblings round the Wednesday sale proffered much. In the end I came home with these. See anything you like?
A small medic pack. Action Man?
Today's modest catch down the boot sale. See anything you like?
Small celluloid Geisha
Picked up a few guys n dolls this morning for the various projects I have in mind.
LtoR: Modern Action Man, tall unknown figure, modern Ken or Paul, JLS member, modern Barbie, Barbie cheapo clone, 2 bent knee wrestlers, 2 finger fight wrestlers, unknown soldier
Any good?
Slim Pickens down the boot sale.
LtoR: budgie CD (free), Mike England plastic head, Don McLean cassette, 2 Sindy jigsaws, a MASK figure, Palitoy PIPPA plates carded, MAROC 7 paperback, Zor El figure, Action man colt 45.
Anything you like?
