One of my favourites.
Milk bottle tops?
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Quote: Aaron @ 13th June 2021, 1:17 AMOne of my favourites.
Milk bottle tops?
I had to smile, as I have collected bookmatches since I was a kid, and have 1000s going back to the 1950s. The first time I have seen them specifically mentioned in a film.
That sounds like a nice little niche collection that can only rise in value now no one makes them anymore (do they?) especially if all the matches are intact. I believe there's a good market for smoking related collections, even old cigarette packets.
Quote: Aaron @ 13th June 2021, 1:17 AMMilk bottle tops?
Probably more a satire on anoraks' collections than a genuine one although they were definitely collected by modellers for making things like the Apollo space shuttle that required as many gold tops as silver ones. My favourites were the silver red stripes, semi skimmed.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 13th June 2021, 7:48 AMThat sounds like a nice little niche collection that can only rise in value now no one makes them anymore (do they?) especially if all the matches are intact. I believe there's a good market for smoking related collections, even old cigarette packets.
You know, I've haven't thought about that for yonks, but it seems there is no one printing them now. It used to be you could have anything you wanted printed - I have some my father had done with his name on.
Actually, they don't fetch much - maybe a £1 or £2 each, so it's hardly worth thinking about selling them, and I do get a nostalgia kick out of browsing through them now and then.
My daughter has expressed an interest in them when I'm gone, so it's academic for me price wise/selling.
Fag packets can fetch good prices though. And early sets of cigarette cards. I have a friend who has a fantastic collection of them going back to Victorian times. AND, a few years ago he recognised a thick paper cigarette card I found in a box of collectables I bought many years ago (pre internet). It turned out to be a very rare Victorian one of a set of 12 and when it went to a specialist auction house it sold for.....................£800!!!!. You could say I was quite pleased. 
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th June 2021, 12:01 AMAlso, it said in the Trivia Notes that James Beck had a part in the film, which sadly finished up on the cutting room floor.
Oooh! Sounds painful!
this is a movie of my childhood
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th June 2021, 12:01 AMWatched this tonight, which is on the same disc (two films per disc) in the box set - the other one being Up the Jungle, which I didn't rate for various reasons. This, was FAR superior. Could some of the reason be the KW factor?
Some great laughs (thought Hawtrey was excellent) and shocked to see that Imogen Hassall took an overdose of pills, aged only 38. Another young actress not able to accept her lot.
Also, it said in the Trivia Notes that James Beck had a part in the film, which sadly finished up on the cutting room floor.
I am going to watch it now - is it on BritBox? If so, I'm on it like a car bonnet. I agree about the beauty of the actresses, as a straight woman I can still admire fantastic natural boobies as does Mr Logic rather blatantly during the summer months!?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th June 2021, 8:51 AMYou know, I've haven't thought about that for yonks, but it seems there is no one printing them now. It used to be you could have anything you wanted printed - I have some my father had done with his name on.
Actually, they don't fetch much - maybe a £1 or £2 each, so it's hardly worth thinking about selling them, and I do get a nostalgia kick out of browsing through them now and then.
My daughter has expressed an interest in them when I'm gone, so it's academic for me price wise/selling.Fag packets can fetch good prices though. And early sets of cigarette cards. I have a friend who has a fantastic collection of them going back to Victorian times. AND, a few years ago he recognised a thick paper cigarette card I found in a box of collectables I bought many years ago (pre internet). It turned out to be a very rare Victorian one of a set of 12 and when it went to a specialist auction house it sold for.....................£800!!!!. You could say I was quite pleased.
Whoa! That's more geekiness than I can cope with this early in the morning.
Quote: Henry Browning @ 12th August 2021, 4:53 PMthis is a movie of my childhood
I don't care whether they're as politically incorrect as something which vexes anyone born after 1990 but I really love the Carry Ons. Well, not Carry on Emmanuel, England or Columbus, but my personal fave has to be Carry on Girls for the sheer oddness of hearing the late, great June Whitfield dub the statuesque Valerie Lyon's dialogue!?