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Friday, February 8, 2019

News Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Well, no dates in the end last week, just couldn't be arsed! When you lose 'connectivity' - as our slavery to digital nowhere (now-here!) is dubbed these days - it can be a tad depressing, not that I allow such negativity to rule for more than a moment, but the thought of researching all the shows on-line without the stuff I have here on the laptop was a downer, so I ignored it!

On the bright side with no laptop to distract me, I spent the last week taking 500+ photographs of all kinds of things as I did lots of sorting and consolidating of what is actually three entities; the 'storage' stuff; the 'here' stuff and the unsorted stuff.

Didn't miss much anyway, Bulldog's 'Malvern' and the Kempton Park truffle-hunt were probably the highlights last week, and only three minor auctions. This week is looking-up a bit with the NEC on Sunday (entry-price rises) and a Wallis & Wallis auction, while Gerry at SRP has a new venue which is always worth a punt as a new venue can equate to one or two new table-takers - often local with new-to-market stuff?

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 9th February 2019

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

Faversham - SRP - New event
Bysingwood Road, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7PA
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown

Nottingham - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Nottingham Toy Fair
Bluecoat Academy, Nottingham, NG8 5GY
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown, accompanied under-16's free
Light refreshments
Free Parking

10:30 - 15:00hrs; Admission unknown; Exeter Hall; Free Parking; Kidlington; News Views Etc...; OX5 1AB; Oxford; Oxford Road; Refreshments; Richard Atkins Fairs; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tel. 01869 347 489; Toy and Train Collectors Fair; Toy Fairs; Website www.toytraincollectorsfairs.com;
Oxford - Richard Atkins Fairs - Toy and Train Collectors Fair
Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1AB
Tel. - 01869 347 489
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission unknown
Refreshments
Free Parking

Windsor - Maidenhead Static Model Club - International Toy & Train Fair
Windsor Leisure Centre, Clewer mead, Stovell Road, Windsor, berkshire, SL4 5JB
Mob. - 07825 564 960
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3, concessions £2.50p, early bird (from 09:00hrs) £7, last hour free.
Refreshments

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Sunday 10th February 2019

Birmingham - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'NEC'
Hall 18, National Exhibition Centre, Birminham, B40 1NT
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
Admission £8, early-bird (from 08:00hrs) £13, OAP's £7.50, Children £2*
Free parking
*Note - price rises for all bar children

Colchester - SRP Toy Fairs
Langham Community Centre, School Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PA
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown

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Tuesday 12th February 2019

Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - 36th Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)
Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ
Tel. - 01226 744 425
19:00 - 21:00hrs
Admission £1.50p, children 50p

Hook - Steven Clements Fairs - Hook Evening Fair
Hook Community Centre, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9NN
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
18:30 - 21:30hrs
Admission £1
Free parking

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Friday 15th February 2019

Alfreton - Toy and Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening fair
The Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD
Mob. - 07951 072 790
19:00 - 21:00hrs
Admission charge unknown

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Auctions

Saturday 9th Febrary 2019

Bury St. Edmonds - Lacy Scott & Knight
Tel. - 01284 748 600 (general enquires)
Tel. - 01284 748 623 (Oliver Leggett - auction)
Toy and Collector's Models

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Monday 11th February 2019

Lewis - Wallis and Wallis
West Street Galleries, Lewis, Sussex, BN7 2NJ
Tel. - 01273 480 208
Fax. - 01273 476 562
General Toy Sale

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Wednesday 13/Thursday 14th February 2019

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions (2-day sale)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ
01642 750 616
Specialist die-cast auction

[Further info and imagery may be added here closer to the date]

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Overseas Events

Sunday 10th February 2019

Dublin (ROI) - Chris Dyer Fairs - Dublin Toy & Train Fair
The Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Dublin, Eire
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £4
Just off N11 trunk road

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If you are an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model, collectable 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 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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Cat; Cats On The Internet; Circus Toys; Girly-Girl; Going Going Gone; Humour; Miscellaneous; News; News Views Etc; News Views Etc...; Plastic Toy Circus; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sorting Toy Figures;
We've been sorting stuff! She looks so pleased with herself, not at all bothered she just went over the falls, blind in a barrel!

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A Brown Felt-Tipped Pen; A Green Felt-Tipped Pen; A Pack Or Tub Of Cotton-Buds; A Pack Or Tub Of Generic Ear-Cleaners; A Pack Or Tub Of Proprietary Make-Up Removers; A Pack Or Tub Of Q-Tips; Hugh's Handy Helpful Home Hobby Hints; Instructions; Micro-Armour Poplar Trees; New Paper-Stem Type; News Views Etc...; Old Planet-Destroying Plastic Tube Type; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Warning Don't Ever Stick Them In Your Ears; What You Will Need;
Hugh's Handy Helpful Home Hobby Hints

The first part of a new, exciting, informative, series of . . . errr . . . one!

Part One - 1:300th scale micro-armour poplar trees!

What you will need;
  • A green felt-tipped pen or selection of same
  • A brown felt-tipped pen or selection of same
  • A pack or tub of Q-tips, cotton-buds, proprietary 'make-up removers' or generic "Warning-don't-ever-stick-them-in-your-ears" ear-cleaners; new paper-stem type, not planet-destroying plastic tube type.
Instructions;
  • Do the pen-thing with the pens.
  •  Cut at base of 'trunk', two per stick! Bargain! Oh yeah! You also need something to cut with . . . no! Not an axe, why would you even have an axe in your modelling tools; psycho!
  • Apply to layout/scenery. Oh yeah! You also need some glue.
  • Hide a battery of 'eighty-eight's behind them and wait for the Ronson Shermans to arrive!
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Other News

Dear Collector, this week we are delighted to offer for sale a superb one-owner collection of very early Herald/Zang Ceremonial and Wild West figures dating from 1953 and '54, in bright, fresh original condition, including mounted Life and Horse Guards (early Royal blue plastic) on two-part cellulose-acetate horses and a couple of Guardsmen with "British Made" MZ base markings.

Dear Collector, this week we have for sale a good selection of Trojan Australians and 14th Army jungle soldiers, from a one owner collection, including the rare flame thrower complete with the separate tanks.

Interesting Piece

Obit

FAO Schwarz is coming to London for November


While this - taken  from The Pioneer of India

Hamleys opens 2nd store in BBSR
Bhubaneswar: The London toy shop Hamleys launched its second store in Bhubaneswar at Esplanade One Mall recently, two months after the launch of its first store. With over three thousand products on display, the store offers an amazing selection of toys from much loved home-grown brands and a range of in-house branded toys that include its signature teddy bears, toy soldiers, wooden toys, bath toys and much more. Prominent animated characters such as Tom and Jerry, Peppa Pig, Minions, My Little Pony and others are all friends of the brand.

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/state-editions/in-briefs-in-briefs-2019-02-03.html


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Top marks to Donald Tusk for saying it . . . how it is!

Funny that the same people who think it's OK for the right-wing press to call our judiciary 'Traitors' for following the Rule of Law are now blubbing with faux-outrage at being called out for what they are! All of them squatting on our collective doorstep with their trousers round their knees and their minds in 'effing neutral while they Brwreakshit all over our future!

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