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Albert Tatlock
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On 1/5/2024 at 8:23 AM, rakehell said:
Anyone from our little rabbit hole interested in this -
It's located on the Northern slopes of Penceland. The "Vintage Toy/Collectibles Expert" sounds like a dream job, to me at least. If I hadn't just started a new job, I'd be like a fat kid on a cupcake with that.
Clicking through, we come across this:
Speed, accuracy and a passion for collectables are qualities required by Vectis to enable us to fulfil our vision to become the UK’s largest, premium collectables auction company.
and also this:
Vectis is the largest Toy and Collectables Auction House in the world processing over 50,000 lots annually. We hold over 90 auctions per year, specialising in over 18 collectable genres - and we are always looking to add to the repertoire.
Well, make your minds up, gents. if you are already the largest in the world, why do you have a vision to be the largest in the UK?
I have the largest capacity for ale in the world, and I hope one day to have the largest in the snug in t'Rovers.
Budgetary constraints permitting, of course. The pension doesn't go far these days.
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On 1/5/2024 at 1:54 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
Doddering old duffer? I had you down as 32 Albert.
Not been 32 since '32.
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On 1/5/2024 at 11:17 AM, nmtg9 said:
It's only ten minutes away from me
Arrange a job interview, and when they ask you what your qualifications are, make it known that you can spot a UKPV at a thousand paces, are aware which titles were distributed by T & P and which by Miller, and have access to the accumulated wisdom recorded within these pages.
Bingo, you will be in, at double the salary of the last bloke, who got the sack when his ignorance of the distinction between nd and ND was exposed.
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On 1/4/2024 at 7:39 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
Funnily enough, that's exactly what I was wearing
Thanks for sorting this out.
It is exactly what I was trying to do, but being the doddering old duffer that I am, managed to bungle it.
Still not up to speed with this new-fangled internet thingy, by the time that I have mastered it, they will have invented summat else and I'll have to start all over again.
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On 1/4/2024 at 6:50 PM, Malacoda said:
This is a great stuff. You're really vacuuming into the corners here.
https://merrymaids.co.uk/spring-clean-flash/freddy-mercury-gif/
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On 12/31/2023 at 5:44 PM, themagicrobot said:
If it wasn't for the cute 1/- price this comic would have been ideal for the "please grade my comic" section.
Another 1 shilling stamp, but unusually at the bottom.
The T & P stamp is usually found at upper right, where it would be more easily visible in the spinner rack.
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Frederick Ebenezer Thorpe tossed, turned and groaned, but sleep eluded him.
He was having repeated flashbacks to the previous afternoon.
It was, he lived through the experience once again, just one minute after 1.30 pm on December 24th, when the lunch break in the stamping shed is officially over.
Ethel was gossiping with Myrtle and Cynthia, when the door flew open and a besuited figure strode into the room.
‘Back to work, ladies, back to work’ boomed Fred (for it was he). ‘What d’you think I pay you for?’
Ethel hurriedly slipped her hip flask of gin back into her corset, hoping Fred had not noticed. She was finding it harder and harder to get through a shift without at least a couple of nips.
From the other side of the room little Daisy, the youngest recruit, timidly spoke up: ‘Mr Thorpe, sir, do you think we could get away a little early today, just half an hour or so, so we could finish off the Christmas shopping? It would help so much.’
Fred’s jaw dropped and he felt he was about to faint. Never had he experienced such a mutinous sentiment.
Regaining his composure, he rallied and pointed to the clock. ‘When that says 5 o’clock’ he announced, ‘that is when the shift is over, and not a minute before.’
Slamming the door behind him, he was suddenly gone, but the girls never thought of slacking, as Fred wore rubber soled shoes, and could take them unaware at any time.
Ethel knew that the appeal was foredoomed to failure, just like the request to turn up the heating. Fred had brandished the electricity bills and told the girls that the winter solstice was behind them, and Spring would soon be on the way.
Sighing, she picked up the top copy in the stack in front of her and wielded her stamp. She crashed it down with vigour on the face of Aquaman, pretending it was Fred.
Her Steptoe style fingerless gloves were just about sufficient to keep her circulation going, as long as she kept up a rapid tempo.
‘Just (stamp) you wait (stamp), Fred’ she muttered under her breath, ‘when (stamp) my Pools come up (stamp), I’ll buy (stamp) this place (stamp), then you will need (stamp) at least three promotions (stamp) before we let you be the lavatory cleaner (stamp).
But it was only a dream, she knew. Where else could a girl get a living around these parts? It wasn’t the West End, it wasn’t even the West End of Leicester, just a drab and dingy bit of the sticks called Oadby.
Fred sat up with a jolt. What was that mysterious figure materialising through his bedroom wall?
‘I am the ghost of Christmas 1966’, were the words that Fred sensed, rather than heard.
‘Unless you mend your miserly ways, I will use my supernatural powers to bring about a hiatus in your supplies. Others, including pornographers, will muscle in on your racket.’
Fred trembled and pulled the blankets over his head. When he re-emerged, the figure had vanished.
‘Just a cheese sandwich induced nightmare’, he told himself, ‘that could never come to pass’.
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On 12/24/2023 at 9:11 AM, themagicrobot said:
@Yorick Go for it! This is a "Jolly Miller Production" despite its contents being at odds with the rest of the "Jolly Miller" books for toddlers. It was 1964 and less than a decade since the horror comics ban and yet Len had no fear, including pre-code horror along with the Marvel Monsters.
Here is a real Jolly Miller book. There were many. They probably took all of ten minutes each to write. There were Jolly Miller comics in the early days too.
And here is a similar Miller offering, once again reprinting Atlas 1950s horror, although the cover is from Tales To Astonish # 14 (December 1960).
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Stay alert!
Or you will miss out on such as these.
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On 12/18/2023 at 6:59 PM, LowGradeBronze said:
My old dad used to work for Cadbury's which became Cadbury Schweppes at some point. Then McVities came and joined the party along with KP in their quest to ruin everyone's teeth and waistline.He used to bring home brown paper bags of broken biccies. Those were the days, but you're right they put a stop to it PDQ once a certain new top boss came a calling at the Bournville office. He saw they had table tennis and bowling greens, all provided when it was just Cadbury's, scorned the idea of making employees feel like family and it all came to a very abrupt end. No more broken biccies.
McVities have now been taken over by a Turkish firm, Pladis, but they haven't brought much Delight with them.
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On 12/15/2023 at 8:30 PM, LowGradeBronze said:
I know this is pure speculation at this point, but do you think Ethel or Donna collected comics or at the very least, took some home each week for her little brother. Or would it have been a busman's holiday? Imagine, being so bored of seeing piles of pristine (or very fine to near mint) comics that they did nothing for you! (There are no emojis awful enough to convey that!)
The very nice lady who lived next door to us at this time worked in the nearby McVities biscuit factory and was always bringing round bagfuls of broken biscuits, a staff perk common at the time, which no doubt the bean counters have put a stop to by now.
She also bestowed the occasional comic on me, I remember ASM # 10 being one of them. I already had it, but accepted it and mumbled my gratitude in case she decided to find a more worthy recipient, dental inspections of gift horses not being the done thing.
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On 12/14/2023 at 8:07 PM, LowGradeBronze said:
Sounds like a line from John Cooper Clark
He should have got the Nobel Prize instead of that miserable git Dylan, who did not even bother to go and pick up his gong.
JCC would have given them a thing or two to remember him by.
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Half a mild all round, and a mince pie.
Terms and conditions apply.
Subject to availability.
Do you think I'm made of money?
- Yorick, Redshade, Get Marwood & I and 4 others
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.......and of course, this is the grassy knoll time of year, so if anyone wishes to fill us in on details of anything mystifying in our hobby, fire away.
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On 11/22/2023 at 2:01 AM, baggsey said:
In terms of why DC stopped printing the PV's directly on the comics, it seems to me that a major economic upheaval was in play at this time - the removal of the "pseudo Gold Standard", which had pegged the exchange rate of dollar to the pound as $2.40 = £1 since the devaluation of the pound in 1967. (Prior to this, Bretton Woods agreement in 1945 had set the exchange rate as $4 = £, if I remember correctly).
Harold Wilson, announcing (through his puppet James Callaghan) the decision to devalue from £1 = $2.80 to £1 = $2.40 in late 1967, famously said that the pound in your pocket or purse had not been devalued.
https://moneyweek.com/415830/19-november-1967-harold-wilsons-pound-in-your-pocket-fib
Of course, it meant that the sterling funds that T & P were using to provide us with our escapist literature of choice bought 14% less product, so a price increase at our end was inevitable.
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And here is another labour worthy of Hercules, to assemble a complete gallery of the issues crossing the 9d/10d divide of 1964.
The arrival of Action # 317 was when I first noticed, in my local newsagent, the dastardly deed perpetrated upon the stalwart collectors of the day.
My jaw dropped, and my face must have been a blend of the first and second reactions of Superman as depicted below.
My heart sank as I realised that things would never be the same again. 'Where will it end?' read the thought bubble above my head.
But I had no choice, I reluctantly forked out the extra pre-decimal penny.
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A couple of copies of Action # 323, on the cusp of the handover from large to small T & P 10d stamps.
The second scan shows the small one, faint, but just about visible.
Maybe the new stamps were dished out part way through that month's stamping session, or maybe the small stamp was applied to a latecomer, we will probably never know.
Anyway, that is another task for the completist, to assemble a full house of all the large and small stamps from the issues available in this crossover period.
But surely, there cannot be anyone, even on these boards, whose anorak has such a stranglehold.
Unless anyone knows better, of course.
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On 11/7/2023 at 1:06 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
Only two titles missing from the first four stamp cycles now:
I knew the Dobie Gillis would turn up one day, as I espied one cluttering up a tumbledown shack posing as a stamp dealer's premises on the edge of the local railway line in the dim and distant past, probably 1963.
At the time, however, my interest was confined to the more mainstream titles, so even though it could have fallen into my clutches for 3 old pennies, I spurned it.
Never saw any issues of the two outstanding cartoon titles, though.
The next to fall may be Unexpected # 43, which I added to my collection in about 1965. Alas, it was a victim of a lapse of judgement when I pruned my holdings a few years later. It has since been replaced, but by an unstamped copy.
- Malacoda, Kevin.J and Get Marwood & I
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The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)
in Silver Age Comic Books
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Also to be found in these reprint titles from the 1950s were the ads from Ellisdons.
Here is one of their catalogues from the early 1970s.
All you could ever want in the way of stink bombs, X-Ray goggles, card tricks and whatever else would make you the life and soul of your corner of the playground.
Send your pocket money today! Don't waste it on rubbishy American comics, they are only a fad that you will soon grow out of.