The title says it all. I have a large collection of random eclectica bought from all sorts of places, some given to me and some dug out of the ground, many bought from car boots, charity shops, fairs and Ebay. I make token attempts to collect one thing but then I see something that I can't live without and the next thing I know is that it is wrapped and paid for. It might be an obsession, but it is my obsession. Click on each photograph and many have the story of how I came by the item, eventually more items will be uploaded and everyone will have a bit of a story to read.
I don't buy to sell but I sometimes fool myself into buying something using the excuse that I'll sell it on for a vast profit. Never happens like that because I generally pay too much so any profit is unlikely, and when I do get a bargain I always want to keep it to gloat over my good fortune. I'll never make a fortune but I'll always have things that I can easily sell at a loss.
- 1930's Hook 'em toy
- 1930's Players Snap Cards
- 1937 Royal Commemorative mug
- 1937 Royal Commemorative mug - base view
- 1937 Royal Commemorative mug - reverse view
- 1940's OWZTHAT cricket game
- 1950's home Bry full beer bottle
- 1950's Shipstone's beer bottle
- 1950's Warwick & Richardson full beer bottle
- 1950's Warwick & Rochardsons full beer bottle 'ole Bill'
- A babies hollow wood rattle
- Advertising bowl measures
- African home-made bent wire seated drummer
- Allsopp glass water jug 1930 a
- Allsopp glass water jug 1930 b
- Alpine Ayingerbrau Lager stein
- Animal Picture cubes
- Antique baby feeder
- ARABIAN wind-up horse and trotting cart
- Art pottery mouth
- Bagatelle Game 1930's
- Bakelite electric 'hot water' bottle'
- Bass Ashtray
- Bench mounted shoe last holder
- Bench mounted shoe last holder
- Betterwear free gifts 1960's
- Betterwear moulded lady dustpan and brush
- Betterwear wooden brush and dustpan
- Black glass Victorian wine bottles
- Blue glass 'thing'
- Boys with Geese ornaments
- Boys with Geese ornaments - base stamps
- Brass coat hook
- Brass door knob early 20th century?
- Brass weights - set of 7
- Bulmers Cider ashtray 1
- Bulmers cider ashtray 2
- Bulwell Parish Church Nottngham, the story of
- Burgess Anchovy Paste Pot Lids
- Butlers Brewery counter Bell c1950's
- Butlin's Beachcomber Bar ashtray
- Calder's Ale printers blocks
- Candle Holder & Matchbox
- Carling black Label Plate
- Casige Childs toy sewing machine
- Ceramic invalid feeder, possibly French
- Chad Valley Foto-Finish 'The Magic Race Game'
- Cheery Coons Club badge 1920's
- Cobblers cast-iron feet
- Cobblers cast-iron feet
- Cobblers cast-iron feet
- Collapsing horse & jockey toy 1930's
- Collard Honiton Pottery wall pocket
- Collard Honiton Pottery wall pocket - base view
- Copper Automotive Oil Filter
- Copper Automotive Oil Filter - view inside
- copralites from Chesil Beach
- Coronation Mug 1953
- Crown Staffordshire ceramic Christmas tree bauble
- CWS toy spinner
- Dalek game piece
- Dan Wieden's Musical Ruler, book and ruler!
- De Bono's Game
- Devon Motto Ware egg cup
- Diddy Men
- Double Diamond ashtrays
- Doulton Jug
- Doulton Jug base incised stamp
- Doulton Jug side view
- Egg cups
- Evans' Cider ashtray
- Fairylite Pyramid Puzzle 1950's
- Flying Santa
- French enema pump/device
- French glass Baby Feeding bottle
- Giant Guinness bottle
- Godwin's glass ashtray
- GPO set of 6 block shaped weights
- GPO set of 6 block shaped weights
- Greensmith's Derby Dog Biscuits
- Grimace balance toy from McDonalds
- Guinness Farmer and cart
- Guinness give-away card
- Guinness Kangaroo
- Guinness Ostritch
- Guinness Penguin
- Guinness Sealion
- Guinness Tortoise
- Guinness Zookeeper
- Guinnss Toucan
- HM Prison lighter
- Hole's Brewery string barrel 1889 a
- Hole's Brewery string barrel 1889 b
- Hole's Brewery string barrel 1889 c
- Infallible resin holder
- Ink drawing dated 1886, family of ducks
- Irish Wade Coronation dish
- Ivory Gymnast 19th century a
- Ivory Gymnasyt 19th century 2
- Izal Rough Cut