I picked up this cute rattling bear over the summer.
At the rear it's marked Kleeware, a brand we've seen before on MC.
I thought that's all there was to know about my bear and he would remain a mystery.
I recently picked up this solid plastic plesiosaur from a house clearance chap.
A really gorgeous sleek toy, I had thought it might be a Nessie or sea serpent of sorts, but on closer inspection of the base it turned out to be a British Museum model by Invicta from 1978.
I recalled Invicta from being a kid, as they'd made the famous Mastermind game, which many of us had, picturing the bearded boffin and his attractive assistant.
I guessed the plesiosaur was part of a range but boy, I had no idea how cool that range was!
Googling eBay I was amazed just how many Invicta dinos there are out there. It makes sense, they are solid hard plastic, ideal for display cabinets and will last.
The Invicta Museum range is a really superb and fabulously designed set.
All the gangs there, Brontosaurus, T.Rex; yep, all the big lizards and ...... They came in a fantastic box, as seen in these examples on eBay.
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Some of these are dated 1987, ten years after my Plesiosaur, so it was a range that had legs. It also came with posters and leaflets!
Wow!
I wonder if it was exclusive to the British Natural History Museum shop?
Maybe they still sell it? Is Invicta still around?
Did you visit the Museum and did you have these dinos readers?
There's a travelling antiques valuer visiting our village hall.
A sort of fancy rag and bone man I guess (I remember them vividly as a kid.Do you?), dressed in a suit sat at a little baize topped table.
There'll be valuations galore and hopefully a few ..... purchases!
We've lots of old creaky stuff that needs to go: jewelery, cutlery, nic nacs. You'll have the same I'm sure, gathering dust in the dark.
It's probably of no value whatsoever - our stuff - we've done an auction and this is what's left - so one last blast is worth a punt and the walk to the hall will do us oldies some good.
I suspect though there'll be a queue a mile long as everyone will have had the same idea!
After this, TV's Cash Cow is the next stop!
Have you ever been to a travelling antiques valuation day readers?
This small lonely thingy was in a bag of junk our daughter gave us. I thought it was a remote for something.
But it's an iPod.
A complete mystery to me personally, the Missus seemed to know about iPods, although we've never had one.
Being interested in boomer tech like VHS and Super 8, I wondered whether anyone will collect stuff like iPods in the future?
Did this Apple gizmo last long? Was it a sort of music centre? What did it replace and what replaced it?
Like Mini discs and Laserdiscs, iPods simply passed me by and thus stilk hold some mystery.
Where you an iPodder?
A mosey round the huge Elsecar emporium, despite not buying anything, did throw up a few things to photograph.
A Tufty Club bendy. It must have been a bigger deal than I recall on TV, the Tufty Club. I've seen books, games and now a bendy!
I bought this American key fob for my old UK vintage toy fair stall. An interesting item was my logic.
I got the keyfob on eBay about twenty years back from a seller in LA.
It was listed as a Forrest J. Ackerman key fob on account of the 4E repeated on it, one of 'Forry's many nicknames. 4E = For-ry.
I've never seen another one associated with Forry, so I have my doubts now I've dug it out again.
Maybe 4E was a LA firm after all?
Anyone any clue?
