Super late Sixties beer mat promoting Walkers Crisps and Potato Sticks. The photo shows the front and back of the same beer mat. The bold...

Much excitement in the Mendelsson household last week, when this dropped through the post! I hadn't checked ebay for a while for Sasek, ...

Sorting through an old folder of ephemera I found these three luggage labels. The top two both date from the eighties and are from airlines....

Complimentary ticket for Betram Mills' 16th Season at The Grand Hall Olympia, London. The season ran from December 20th 1935- January 25...

On a recent trip back to London, we popped up to the Market at Covent Garden. Monday was the antiques market, and was always interesting and...

Gummed label that was used on rolls of fabric.

Back in the Seventies British Rail ran football special trains, so fans could get to games. It kept the hooligans separate and meant the gen...

These mis-registered 1960s scraps came from Pollocks Toy museum in London. A fabulous museum round the back of Goodge Street, London . The ...

The pick of yesterdays booty. One of a number of beer mats.

Two lovely matchboxes from Spain featuring two Spanish football teams. Made by Fosforera Espanola, they look to date from the Fifties. If yo...

Perhaps one of my favourite finds ever, was this enormous 12 motto office rubber stamp, that my father in law, rescued from the bottom of a ...

Another topical post tonight, as France crash to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Mexico in the FIFA World Cup. Back in 1998 France hosted the T...

Another small collection, that turned up recently, this time of stamp booklet covers. Back in the Seventies, the booklets were dispensed fro...

This classic 1970s cloth kit rag doll was found at the car boot last summer. She came with a similar purple cat. This doll is called Rosita ...

Its just come to my attention that the blog was one years old yesterday. Happy Birthday! We know how to celebrate at Down to the Cellar, so ...

Happy Holidays to one & all! Heres my festive post taken from Grace Gablers 1945 book for Puffin " A childs alphabet". Born G...