BamberBooks
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| 11 Feb 2020 04:18 PM |
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Initial posting for the 1st of our specialist such sales this year. Got 4 Nationwide pick ups over the next couple of weeks... here's a little preview, will try to update as stuff trickles in....
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 12 Feb 2020 09:32 AM |
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Dropped off this week - an interesting floot standing 1950's cigarette vending machine, in good nick!
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 13 Feb 2020 09:56 AM |
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Pick up trip planned for the week beginning Monday 24th - heading to Birmingham, then down the M5 - anyone want me to call in/ pick up just email or telephone....
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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| 13 Feb 2020 03:50 PM |
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When my dad and I had a butchers shop in the early 1980's at the top of Brockham Lane, Brockham , Surrey that garage - above cig machine - was literally 200 yards around the corner on the A25. Used to sell petrol etc, then stood empty for about 20 years before becoming a computer repair shop. Now for about the last 2 years its a small car sales plot. Small world |
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 13 Feb 2020 04:07 PM |
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Love the attribution Lummox.
In 1966 I paid my first visit as a young schoolboy rock climbing on the Isle of Skye.
One wet day we did a little bus trip around various places on the island and went past what purported to be a petrol station in the Northern (remote) part of the island. I still recall seeing the single petrol pump, with globe atop, stood on its lonesome on a single lane road. Then - decades later.... what should be delivered to BBR for Auction but - that self same petrol pump. When I told the fella I knew EXACTLY where it was from he was absolutely gobsmacked.
Us collectors have encyclopaedic memories sometimes, lol! |
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BamberBooks
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| 19 Feb 2020 09:04 AM |
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Couple of rather exceptional stoneware water jugs lotted in for May....
 
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 24 Feb 2020 12:46 PM |
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Three different advertising cabinets for the planned Wednesday pick up trip so far.... |
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BamberBooks
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| 28 Feb 2020 12:53 PM |
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Wonderful pick ups yesterday - 4 advertising cabinets (too wet to photograph them outside today), a Mitchell & Butlers advertising pub table, several coasters, more enamels, a great clocking in clock, bunch of scarce water jugs & a tip top matchstriker...
  
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 29 Feb 2020 10:40 AM |
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A finger plate & a small Smiths enamel just lotted in....
 
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 02 Mar 2020 08:19 AM |
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DJF has uncovered this old building advert fixture for Barbers Tea - which was a well known brand in Birmingham.
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BamberBooks
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| 04 Mar 2020 04:05 PM |
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Some bits from an ephemera hoard consigned, apologies if I've posted elsewhere thought worth adding here. When this lot came in I said "good golly!" Have ot be vary careful what you say nowadays....
Will add some of the cabinets later...
   
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 30 Mar 2020 05:00 PM |
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It is inevitable this event will need to be rescheduled given the current crisis/ lock down.
Being perfectly realistic at the moment my thoughts are:
1. April Spring Extravaganza now shifts to October - 2 days of auctions/ catalogue awaiting the go ahead.
2. May 31 Advertising & Breweriana Auction will slide into the proposed November date.
3. the 30th UK SummerNational - which would have been the BIGGEST ever Elsecar event... rescheduled (bit like the Olympics) to next July. |
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BamberBooks
Mad Keen Collector
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| 09 Apr 2020 11:28 AM |
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Still pontificating and musing - we WILL be back, stronger and keener than ever!!!
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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| 09 Apr 2020 01:19 PM |
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You can get Pills for that AB !! |
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Alan Blakeman
Tatter
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| 26 Jun 2020 01:30 PM |
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Can't get any pills in the cupboards for bottles of wine, beer & whisky Lummox!!!
Anyway - May didn't take place. In 10 days time we have a large collection delivery from the London area. I am considering making the November date rescheduled to a two day affair, quite likely still absentee/ behind closed doors, solely online - BUT - it will be a BIG SALE. Entries still being taken.
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