A Birthday Card from Lance

Lance

USA

Is it too Early to Send Xmas Cards?

Well, all the November Christmassing in the shops, on the telly and trees appearing in homes has put me in an early festive mood, so much so, I've written my dozen Christmas cards and sent them today! 

I know, I know, it's still November, but I've sent them 2nd class so it'll probably be December when they get there! 

Restricted to just family these days, is it still too early to be sending Xmas cards? 

What do you think? Do you still bother? Do you send e-cards or texts?

Christmas Greetings from Ed

 

To: Woodsy, Wotan and Scoop and All Fellow Moonbasers

Here's wishing a wonderful Christmas to you and yours.

From The North Pole - Vegas Annex!

Ed

JACK DAVIS CARDS AND BOX: TERRANOVA'S PERSONAL COLLECTION

Here's the box Valentine cards were sold in which contains my cards from the 50's & 60's.

I kept it because I was never sure who drew the illustrations. I thought it was Jack Davis at the time and it wasn't until the current exhibit that I knew for sure.

Terranova47

USA

Terranova47's Bubble Gum Cards

My early collection of bubble gum cards and similar have been kept in a retail display box from said cards circa 1958.

The cards from this box were collected because the artwork looked to be by Jack Davies or similar artist from MAD Magazine. In looking at the box now I see that the cards were under licence from TOPPS the big card company in the US

Tarzan and Captain Scarlett were from the 60's but the Funny Greetings and Western cards are 50's as was the all British Associated-Rediffusion cards of their TV shows, some British, some US.

Associated-Rediffusion was the first venture of commercial TV providing an alternative to the BBC.

The box was stored in a shoe box inside a trunk.

Enjoy!

Terranova47

USA

Brian

EE BY GUM! ITS STUCK!

Breaking away from house, down the midweek booty today I picked up just a couple of cheap trinkets.

An old Waddingtons Battlestar Galactica jigsaw. Cylon Warrior. Did you have one of these?

A bag of old figures, knights and horses, which I've dunked ...

and dried off. Recognise any?

I also picked up some old Seventies greetings cards, which I'm always on the look-out for, as I enjoy sending them to friends and rellies. This was a box of varied greetings and sizes, all very nostalgic.

Quite a few envelopes had either self-gummed to the card top or in some cases completely sealed themselves with the cards inside!

Not completely sure how to separate the gummed edge from the card without damaging the picture. Any ideas?

The pay-off for a vintage greetings card fan like me is an image like this, hidden for decades in a sealed paper envelope yellowing with age, only to be re-discovered by yours truly in a house clearance jumble box in a field this morning.

Now that is a classic Seventies composition. Curls, browns and golds! Do you like it too?

Oddly enough I saw two paperback horse books in the house clearance boxes; Follyfoot, no less, and Black Stallion. I also saw an old boxed Evel Knevel Scramble Van and hundreds of rock music cassette tapes - like I had way back - such as Deep Purple, Van Morrison, the Jeff Beck Group and the Jeff Healey Band, but as I'm trying to cut-down on what I fetch home I resisted temptation!

Would you have resisted?

The Star Trek Mission New York Show Cards

Back in 2016 there was a Promotional set of eight cards for the 2016 Star Trek Mission New York show featuring members of the original cast.

 

I can not say I had heard of this event at the time. I think only Shatner and Koening attended. 

Any thought of a Star Trek Convention brings to mind the ending of the movie Galaxy Quest which to me is the ultimate comment on the original Star Trek series.

Here they are for Moonbase Central reader enjoyment.

Terranova47

USA

Lewis's 1945 WWII Purina Vita-Brits Crispies ‘WONDERS OF MODERN AIRCRAFT’ Cards

For my recent 65th birthday, an old friend gave me this almost complete Vintage 1945 WWII Purina Vita-Brits Crispies ‘WONDERS OF MODERN AIRCRAFT’ Collector Cards book.

After a bit of Googling, I was able to locate images of the missing cards and with a lot of Photoshop work, print out some replacements to fill the gaps.

Complimenting Terranova47's recent Wings of Speed post, here they all are! The Vita-Brits! Enjoy!

Lewis

Oz

Have you got anything like this readers?

SWAPPING CARDS

I saw a student organising his Pokémon trading cards t'other day.

It was fascinating to see and brought back memories of me doing the same in the late Sixties and Seventies.

I'd like to say I collected iconic Topps sets like Mars Attacks and Civil War News but I didn't. My big brother did so I know I saw them in the house. Oddly enough I have owned both complete sets since!

I did collect ABC Batman and Captain Scarlet cards. I also swapped football cards. Maybe Shoot comic had something to do with this.

I remember little folded Super Hero cards as well. I think they were called folders.

Ah, the meek freedoms and simple pleasures of being a kid!

Did you collect and swap trading cards readers?

MJ's Superman And DC Greeting Cards

MJ recently mentioned his Super Powers greetings cards. He's kindly sent me these links to cards like the ones he had. Enjoy!

http://mycomicboardbanners.blogspot.com/2012/05/superman-and-dc-greeting-cards-2.html?m=1

http://mycomicboardbanners.blogspot.com/2012/06/superman-and-dc-greeting-cards-7.html?m=1 

Have you any interesting greetings cards?

Give that man a ceegar!

My recent drive to buy more vintage space memorabilia netted a nice set of Tom Thumb 'Exploration of Space' cards. Slightly wider than the usual cigarette versions, this set of 32 dates from the late seventies and has some classic photographs, such as the 'Blue Marble', but also some unusual shots of Sputnik 3, SkyLab and images from the Voyager missions. Due to the vagaries of the postal service, this set went walkabout for a few weeks after purchase and eventually came back to the seller, as the address on the envelope had been obscured. Luckily, a reposting brought them home safely yesterday.