As part of my commitment to community
programming in an esoteric clause hidden in the small print of a contractual
obligation I was completely unaware of until I invented it, I present the Small
Scale World guide to voting in the 2019 General Election . . .
In the meantime, Donald 'I'm so fuckwitted
I told the people of Oklahoma we were building a big beautiful wall round their
state-locked state' Trump, who last week was [also] saying he was the most open President
'ever' seems to have decided he's the least open in half-a-century when it comes
to tax-returns!
Meanwhile over here Boris's Tories and
Farage (rhymes with c**t)'s UKIP/Brwreakshit/NASDP goons are playing musical
chairs, do you even know who's standing in your neck of the woods?
Vote liberal and buy toys!
Sandown this Saturday, it's a week early over
previous years I think? So; don't miss it for a routine which is no more . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 16th November 2019
Exeter - Ray Heard Train & Toy
Fairs
Matford Centre, Matford Park Road, Exeter,
EX2 8FD
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00-15:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free parking, refreshments
Hereford
- Chris Dyer
Fairs
Hereford Leisure Centre, Holmer Road,
Hereford, HR4 9UD
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Sandown
Park - Barry
Potter / BP Fairs - 'The' Sandown Park Show
Exhibition
Centre, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Fax. - 01604
771 070
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission -
Adults £6.50p, seniors £6, children £2, early bird (from 08.00hrs) £10.00
Tons of free parking
Wrexham - Barry Stockton Fairs - Hobbies &
Model Rail Show
Wrexham
Memorial Hall, Bodhyfryd, Wrexham, LL12 7AG
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Sunday 17th November 2019
Chester-le-Street - Jim Corr Fairs
Lord Lawson Academy, Birtly Lane, Birtly,
DH3 2LF
Mob. - 07504 035 955
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2,
'Early Bird' £5
Llanelli - Chris Dyer Fairs
Llangennech Community Centre, Off Hendre
Road, Llangennech, Wales, SA14 8TH
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Malvern - Bulldog Fairs
The Seven Hall, Three Counties Showground,
Worcestershire, WR13 6NW
Tel. - 01373 452 857
Mob. - 07917 125 641
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Adults £4, under 16's free if accompanied,
early-bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.
Potters
Bar - Toy
& Train Fairs (Peter Levinson)
Elm Court Centre, Mutton Lane, Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire, EN6 3BP
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01282 051 518 (Peter or Diane)
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission charge unknown
Spalding - J&J Fairs (J&J
Webb)
Springfields Events & Conference
Centre, Camelgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 6ET
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission - Adult £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st
child £1.50p
Walsall - Transtar Promotions
(Geoff & Linda Price) - Toy & Train Collectors Fair
Oak Park Active Living Centre, Coppice
Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 9BH
Tel.- 01922 643 385 (Geoff or Linda)
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £1.80p, seniors £1.50p, child
£1.00
Refreshments
Worthing - SRP Toyfairs
Charmandean Centre, Forest Road, Worthing,
West Sussex, BN14 9HS
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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Friday 22nd November 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 16th November 2019
Bury
St. Edmunds - Lacy
Scott & Knight
Tel. - 01284 748 600 (general enquires)
Tel. - 01284 748 623 (Oliver Leggett -
auction)
Toy and Collectors Models
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Wednesday 20th November 2019
Warwick - Warwick & Warwick
Charlton House, Scar Bank, Millers Road,
Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5DB
(Auctions held in Court House)
Tel. - 01926 499 031
Facsimile - 01926 491 906
Catalogue on-line, printed version
available on request
Trains, die cast, model soldiers and other
toys
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Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st November
2019
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis
Auctions (2-day sale)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Toy Soldiers military equipment & model
figures
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Other Events
Saturday 16th November 2019
Ignore date on poster
Kensington (London) - London International Antique Doll, Teddy
Bear and Toy Fair - 200 Years of Childhood (Doll and Bear Fair)
Pre-event seminars
Joanne McDonald of Vectis Auctions will be giving a talk on Chiltern Bears
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Sunday 17th October 2019
Bentley
Heath - MGM -
Doll & Bear Fair
Bentley Heath Community Centre, Widney
Road, Bentley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands, B93 9BQ (venue)
Linnet Lodge, The Village, Wembworthy,
Devon, EX18 7RX (promoter)
Tel. - 07818 462448
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission - adults/seniors: £2.50, children:
50p
Free car parking, refreshments
Free Prize Draws
Kensington (London) - London International Antique Doll, Teddy
Bear and Toy Fair - 200 Years of Childhood (Doll and Bear Fair)
Web - www.200yearsofchildhood.com
Tel. I - 01908642111 (daytime)
Tel. II - 01908610883 (evenings and
weekends)
eMail I - hap@mkps.co.uk
eMail II - grandmasteddies@gmail.com
eMail III - daniel.agnew@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07875874854
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Overseas Events
All timings; local time
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 November
2019
Rondebosch (South Africa) - Cape Town Society of Model and Experimental Engineers - Open Days
Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tel. I - 072 787 6709 (Geoffrey de Vartek)
Tel. II - 082 378 2437 (Andre van Breda)
09:00-16:00hrs (both days)
Admission R20 per adult, R10 per child, 6
and over; 6 or under - admission free
Rides (for children) on the 5-inch gauge live steam engine (cost per
ride will be R5 per child, rides from 09:00-12:00hrs and from 13:30-15:30hrs)
York (USA) - Greenberg’s - Great Train & Toy Show
York Expo Center, 334 Carlisle Avenue,
York, PA 17404, USA (venue)
Greenberg Shows, 280 Carlton Drive, Carol
Stream, IL 60188, USA (organiser)
Tel. - ++6302 794 087
Fax. - ++2405 974 482
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission is $10 Saturday (for both days) or $9 Sunday (on-site ticket sales
cash only), children 11 and under free
Free parking
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Sunday 17th November 2019
Soultz (France) - NEF Des Jouets - 18th Bourse aux
Figurines et Miniatures
MAB de Soultz, Rue de la Marne, Haut-Rhin,
France (venue)
12 Rue Jean Jaurès,
F-68360, Soultz, Haut-Rhin, France (organisers)
eMail - nefdesjouets@soultz68.fr
Tel. - ++0389 743 092
09:00-17:00
Admission €2 (€4 with entry to museum)
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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 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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Toy News
Rubik Brand Ltd.
Have lost their appeal to the EU court on
such matters, to regain their Europe-wide protection which was originally
granted in 1999 (years after the invention) omly to be withdrawn in 2017, as
intellectual property rights are supposed to last 70-odd years this seems to
need further investigation, although the original drawings for the mechanism
(presumably in metal) date back to 1947, which may be where the stumble's come
from?
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Good News Story
A Royal Navy Rescue helecopter managed to
recover a radio-controlled 'plane which got caught on top of an old
mine-workings chimney! The Sea Merlin was on a training exercise when the call
came in for help, and the winch-man was lowered to the top of the dry-stone chimney
and recovered the model aircraft.
The owner - Mr. Roger Bath had apparently
managed to crash into the only raised item in the landscape as far as the eye
could see? Members of 824 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Culdrose were happy to
help as it made for a realistic and practical training example.
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Pompeii Under Fire
A sad (or sadish, it's laden with pathos)
story in the Evening Standard the other day, of a piece of great 'British' eccentricity
in danger of being lost forever, now that the Irishman (Co. Athlone) behind the
whole 'edifice' has passed away.
'Gerry's Pompeii was created by the late
Gerry Dalton, and is described as the passion of an autodidact, a monument to
'outsider art', there is much more than I can tell . . . and a fundraising page, give if you can, lots of figures, lots of dioramas, need saving.
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The Works
Issued a profits warning and watched their
shares tumble last week, they're down 1.9% overall on this time last year, but
have over-stocked on Squishies which
have performed 3.6% below target - shit toys, shit performance. And - while the
Works used to feature here regularly from 2008-16-odd, they haven't had much to
interest us for a while now?
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Entertainment One (eOne)
Also reporting 'widening' losses as it
prepares for its sale to Hasbro, the Pepper Pig licensee faced a one-off
payment of £6.8M (small change!) for . . . I think I recall reading somewhere -
a buyout of a German subsidiary or something, all corporate-shite &
bollocks anyway; and Hasbro gets a
bargain!
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Received With Thanks
A Card from the postman led to a quick trip
down the sorting office to retrieve this bunch of plunder . . .
. . . for which I have to thank both Peter
Evans and the good burgers of the Wirral and Merseyside attending the Widnes Collectors and Car Boot Fair, "Warrington's
favorite" - I'm told . . . Cheers Peter!
Also, from the morning's earlier post, I
meant to thank him last week; Nazar Marchenko for translating Russian for me.
And thanks again to Joe Walton for the
other posts this week and Angelo for tomorrow's post.
And I also received some interesting images
from Brian B which should come to something shortly!
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How They Come In
A quieter week (until Peter's parcel
arrived!), but a couple of interesting things entered the collection;
This is an old McDonald's 'Happy Meal'
giveaway, you sit him (Olaf Somebody-sonn?) down and a mechanism jumps him up
again, it doesn't work very well, but may be tired - it seems to be about 12
years old? From the Golden Compass
movie of His Dark Materials (Philip
Pullman), I think it will prove to be in-scale with the board game characters
we looked at a year or two ago.
And; it may be a sign of things to come as
the imagery of the new TV/Streaming series is different from the movie, so
people (fans) may think it's time to clear out the old 'look' and start
collecting a new 'Expanded Universe'!?
Bits and bobs, the wooden elephant has
ivory tusks, but they are home-carved replacements, a bit rough and a bit
short, clearly a Sri Lankan elephant! And . . . three Chinasaurs! With four
from Peter that's seven from four brands in a week, and I only sorted them away
last weekend! It's like cleaning the Elysian stables, except I'm collecting the
stuff and trying to keep it all in the stable; or painting the Forth bridge!
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Staff Issues
Another parcel and other work to rule-s
which definitely aren't in the employment contract for warehouse/clerical!
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Other Stuff
From the you-thought-I-was-exaggerating
department, it's N' euw's and views of the thumb!
The underside's done OK; almost a perfect
weld! But the top's still not right and it won't be until that corner-flap of
nail comes off, which won't be for a while as there's not enough for me to
cut-under the connection 'till it grows out a bit.
So I'm washing it with alcohol and changing
the dressing twice a day! Funny thing though; worth knowing - surgical-spirit
doesn't sting. Warm salted-water (day two) stung to buggery, and in the old
days that iodine-yellow Savlon spray
(which seems to have been banned?) used to smart a bit, but pure alcohol just
numbs it all with cold and kills anything untoward - bloody-good stuff, hic!
Some fungi I shot last Sunday round the
pond, all this rain has proven to be a real boon for them, and there are more
than I have seen since 2011/12 which were dampish winters too, but this year is
better.
