Let's buy toys . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 8th February 2020
Chester - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs
The Cheshire Country Club Sports Club, Plas
Newton Lane, Upton, Cheshire, CH2 1PR
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free Parking
Hawkinge - SRP Toy Fairs
Hawkinge Community Centre, Heron Forstal
Avenue, Hawkinge, Kent, CT18 7FT
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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Sunday 9th February 2020
Birmingham - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'NEC'
Hall 18,
National Exhibition Centre, Birminham, B40 1NT
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Fax. - 01604
771 070
Hours
unknown (probably
10:30-15:00hrs)
Admission £7.50, early-bird (from 08:00hrs)
£12, OAP's £7, Children £2
Free parking
[Which also made it into Waitrose magazine this week, which either means BP Fairs are becoming an institution, or
the editors were short on event-dates?!!]
Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Townsend
Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend)
Festival
Hall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 7DJ
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951
072 790
10:00 -
14:00hrs
Admission fee unknown, aaccompanied under-16's free
Free
parking, refreshments
Orpington - SRP Toyfairs
Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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Tuesday 11th February 2020
Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - 42nd
Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)
Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ
Web. - www.newcomenfairs.co.uk
eMail - sales@newcomenfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01226 744 425
19:00 - 21:00hrs
Admission £1.50p, children 50p
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Wednesday 12th February 2020
Burton-on-Trent - Townsend
Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm
Townsend) - Evening Fair
The Town
Hall, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2EB
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951 072 790
18:00 -
20:30hrs
Admission
unknown, accompanied under-16's free
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Thursday 13th February 2020
Theydon
Bois - Joe
Lock Fairs (evening fair)
Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois,
Essex, CM16 7ER
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07866 641 215
19:00-21:00hrs
Admission £1
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Auctions
Saturday 8th February 2020
Bury
St. Edmunds - Lacy
Scott & Knight
Web. - www.lsk.co.uk
eMail - oleggett@lsk.co.uk
Tel. - 01284 748 600 (general enquires)
Tel. - 01284 748 623 (Oliver Leggett - auction)
Toy and Collectors Models
Poole - Cottees Auctions Limited
Mannings
Heath Road, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4NQ
Web. - www.cottees.co.uk
eMail - info@cottees.co.uk
Tel. - 01202
723 177
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Wednesday 12th February 2020
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Sales commence at 10:30hrs
Toy & model soldiers & figures,
kits & AFV's
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Other Events
From Thursday 6th February (yesterday) -
until Monday 20th April 2020
Manchester - Nathan Sawaya (Lego
builder) - The Art of the Brick
Great Northern Warehouse, Peter Street,
Manchester
Web. - www.aotbmanchester.co.uk
[Seems to be a re-hash of the show which
actually started 19th Jan and was flagged-up here then - Fri. 10th Jan.?]
Added interaction/participation building?
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Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th February
2020
Exeter - Westpoint - Antique
& Vintage Home Show
Web. - www.westpointexeter.co.uk
Antiques, collectables and vintage - 400+
dealers
Sheppton
Mallet - Bristol
Classic - Great Weastern Classic Car Show
Bath & West Showground, Sheppton
mallet, Somerset
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Saturday 8th - Sunday 23rd February 2020
Norwich - The Forum - Norfolk
Makers Festival
The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich
Crafting, spinning & weaving, printing,
painting, drawing & sculpting, knitting, crochet & embroidery etc . . .
workshops, displays and traders.
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Overseas Events
Saturday 8th February 2020
Schertz (USA) - Attic Antiquity Dolls - Hill Country
Doll Show & Sale
Schertz Civic Centre, 1400 Schertz Pkwy, Schertz, TX 78154, Texas USA
Web. - http://www.dolldr.com/5.html
eMail - dmeredith@dolldr.com (Dorothy
Meredith)
Tel. - ++8306 065 868
09:00-16:00hrs
Admission $6.00, children $2.00
50 dealers, dolls, bears and miniatures
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Sunday 9th February 2020
Wallingford (USA) - Classic Shows - Model Railroad Show
Zandri's Stillwood Inn, 1074 South Colony
Rd, Wallingford, CT 06492, Connecticut, USA
eMail - LSpinelli49@aol.com
Tel. - ++2039 261 327 (Lud or Tina Spinelli)
09:00-14:00hrs
Admission $5, children 12 & under - free
with accompanying adult
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable, military, historical or popular-/youth-culture type
sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR
FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating
the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing
times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features -
parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event
subject matter &etc. And a link; if the event or your organisation has a
web-page.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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Link
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H is for How They Come In
I found a new old Charity shop, or that is
- one which has been closed every time I've been past it, but which was staffed
this time, and not just staffed, two ladies were running-out of places to put
stuff. They had a drawer of mixed figures for 20p from which I selected this
little lot!
The weird insect with a prehensile tail
looks to be from that McDonald's set
of Smurfs we looked at the other day;
I think the two girls are from a board-game (looking at the bases) and possibly
Barbie-related, although they look a
little younger and more anatomically realistic than Mattel's Miss.
The Sci-fi's are a Hasbro whatsit (seen 'em here before) and a small rubber Cyberman who may be from those advent
calendars from which the Philosophical Toad gave a Dalek to the Blog years ago.
A [probably] Kinder kangaroo and an Indian made up the group, I got him because
although he's a common enough looking figure (from Timpo Swoppets) in PVC-rubber material, he's not the expected Hong
Kong marked offering, but clearly marked 'China'.
Also in the shop was a shelf of what had
been someone's fairy collection, of which this one around the 54mm mark joined
the growing pocketful.
The Asian importer gave up what I think is
another from that Ubisoft lot we
looked at a few years ago, although it's unmarked . . . the fact that it
involves a mushroom (with a pair of eyes pocking out) and a weird sluggington
sitting on it, might have something to do with my assumption!
The evilBay lot arrived, very useful stuff,
two or three posts should be the result.
Invicta Plastics for the British Museum (Natural History); I know, I've got one; but I thought it had
a slightly chewed tail, so considered this an upgrade! In fact; there was
nothing wrong with the last one and I think I might have three, but the others can
make for useful swaps.
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This Week I Are Been Mostly Sortin' . .
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. . . Hay! And Straw!
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Other Toy Stuff
Chocolate
Look what I found in my suit-jacket pocket!
Another freebie from Toy Fair 2020! A chocolate I shall enjoy (well . . . I
already have!) and the Hornby Group
posts (three I think) are in the long queue, that's the tardy queue!
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Barbie
I saw a story about the ethnic Barbie's (mentioned here passim), but
which added that there will be disabled Barbie's
as well, already there is an African-American Barbie with Vitiligo (the contrasting skin-patch thing) and another
with a prsthetic, while plans are afoot for wheelchair and hair-loss Barbie's.
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Other Stuff
Spot the 'deliberate' mistake . . .
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No; look properly . . . !
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One of the snowdrops picked up a 'hat' made
of a hollowed acorn shell! Skin? What are the chances of that happening?
Probably not that great in a snow-drop wood with lot of oaks! Indeed the way
they open and then drop the flower may be a mechanism for shedding such
collected empty acorns or hazelnuts? I blame the squirrels!
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And finally;
Whaaaaat?!!
Sometimes I need a box . . . aaaaand sometimes . . . I don't . . . have you seen it? It's far
too big; I could easily fit in it . . . and
now you've emptied it! Where's the fun in that?
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