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Saturday, 10 November 2018

SPACE 1999 ALIEN KIT PICTURE CARDS

Hello Woodsy,

I scanned the picture card insert and the sides of the bottom half of the package.

This reissued model was obviously the brainchild of a serious fan of Catherine Schell.

Terranova47

NYC

USA

NOW THAT'S A STAMP!

Our friend the SpaceX Nova!

Have you any space stamps?

CRACKERJACK WOLFMAN

I had to laugh when I saw this bundle of gumball toys.

i thought the chap at the back was a miniature ....

Have you mistaken one toy for another?

Do you go into charity shops in your part of the world? Do they exist? I know you have Thrift stores in the US. Are they any good for toy collectors? Not to everyone's taste, I personally like visiting them and can easily spend a day with the missus going in and out of them in a new town we've been to.

How about you?

BY GUM THAT'S CRAZY! MY UNUSABLE STAMPS

I had a problem in the local Post Office today.

Earlier in the summer we had bought stamps for a special delivery return envelope for some documents. It wasn't needed in the end so we just saved the stamps.

Today I tried to post a parcel - something I'd sold on Amazon - using these stamps. I took it all to the Posties and asked if they would accept the stamps . I even offered I put them on in front of them.

They wouldn't!

I pointed out that I'd bought the stamps off them a couple of months ago. Didn't matter. The postmaster explained that the 'machine' wouldn't be able to scan them! It had to be a printed 'stamp' label generated by them.

He said they were fine for letters but not parcels. I have 6 stamps at £2.65 each. That's a series of damn big letters!

I'm baffled. You buy stamps at an English Post Office and they won't accept them back on a parcel destined for an English address! What is going on!

Seems Orwellian to me!

Have you come across this readers?

ARE POPPLE PEOPLE PATIENT ZERO?

The other day I posted the set of plastic people and a rocket made by Hover, those erstwhile Project SWORD cloners.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2018/11/hover-puppet-toys-space-set.html

Hover are not well known for originality and here's a similar set by the much better known American company Multiple Toymakers - those Golden Astronaut boys - called Popple People. Were these the source? Or was it Funny Men?

Here we have knights and a circus from 1970 as featured on t'eBay.

I wonder if they released a space version of this? Anyone know?

KEV'S HOVERCRAFTS; MATCHBOX

Another day, another hovercraft. Picked this little Matchbox one up somewhere, but decided to paint it red! Don't know if it's based on a real one or not?

Float on,

Kevin D

Cheshire Base