The Return of The Hinde

Three more postcards from the John Hinde studio for your consideration. Super saturated and brilliantly composed, they do make me smile! If you missed the first Hinde post you can view it here.

Lyons ice lolly badges

Last week I picked up a lovely collection of Seventies badges. They were fairly mixed, but it was these three, that initially caught my eye. They were given away free, in 1973 with Lyons Maid, Childrens range of ice lollies. There were twelve to collect, and you can see them all here. Its a shame Captian Cody wasnt amongst the lot I found!

The kzwp site is well worth exploring, and according to them, Lyons produced a number of button badges for a wide range of their products. The original prices for the lollies are unbelievable! In 1974 ,the Jelly Terror lolly cost 4p, it had a strawberry jelly centre with a vanilla kreem ice shell and a choc dipped top covered in sugar strands. Wow!

I promise to post some more of the badges later!

Terraced House Books 2

Heres some more books from Peter Heaslip in the Terraced House series.

My Dad, Terraced House Books

Last week I missed the Saturday morning trawl round the charity shops, as I had to work, but luckily Becky came back laden with goodies. Including a set of dual language picture books, in English & Panjabi. Ive been picking up 1970s photographic childrens books, for a while now.

This set entitled " The Terraced House Books " document Britain in the 70s brilliantly! The pick of the bunch was My Dad first published by Methuen in 1978. Written by Peter C Heaslip with photographs by John Bennett.

If you cant view the text, its worth double clicking the image, to get a closer look! Some of the highlights below.























Tomorrow would have been my Dads 80th Birthday. Sadly he died over ten years ago. As a little tribute Ive posted a photo of him, in the front room in the 1950s. He didnt like beer! Happy Birthday Dad!

1970s Post office booklet cover

Another small collection, that turned up recently, this time of stamp booklet covers. Back in the Seventies, the booklets were dispensed from machines outside the Post Office.

How simple, and beautiful, one colour printing on a heavyweight card is, and stitch bound too.
There are a few more examples here.

Admission tickets

Early Lego Duplo figures

Small collection of Duplo figures that date from 1976 -1981.

Miss Twist. C'est Peynet

My parents went to Paris for their honeymoon in 1953, and I was always lead to believe that one of the things they came back with was the Peynet wedding dolls.

It turns out the dolls werent made till later. Born in 1908, Peynet is famed for his books "The Lovers". However in the early 50s Galeries Lafayettes commissioned Peynet to produce a window display for them, the display was so successful that Technigom, a french company had the idea of producing smaller versions in latex, that measured 21cm.

What then followed was over 250 different dolls, that sold over six million. The boxed doll above is Miss Twist, that my wife bought for my birthday. The images below come from a small catalogue that belonged to my father.

unknown spaceman

Two unknown metallic blue, plastic spacemen that turned up last week in the incredible 1p box, over at Martha Trust. Measuring 70mm, they are slightly taller than the average plastic soldier, and with their swept back hair, and space suit, I think they are from the 1950s. Could it be Dan Dare perhaps?















Martha Trust is the local Hospice, charity shop, and its always a pleasure to spend a lunch hour rifling through their boxes. Its so good infact, that some of the third year Illustration students have started a blog in homage, and its very nice too!

Galt Alphabet Plaques

Another great game from Galt. Beautifully printed on ply, each card can be arranged in pairs or groups, and eventually form one long frieze.





















Belows a detail from a couple of my favourites.