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05/29/2020

flashback friday favorite ~ birthday bear

this is a flashback friday favorite post from one of my very first posts here at the lost & found in the summer of 2012, my birthday to be exact, & features one of my most loved toys ~

it's our birthday today, so we chose this little vintage birthday bear. i don't know too much about him, except that he's segmented & seems to be mohair, he's 7 1/2" tall, & his only marking is a felt tag on the back with 'JM 03' on it.

the reason i call him a birthday bear though, is because he has a ribbon around his neck with a tiny vintage pinback button on it..

the button is 3/4" across & has a candle on it, & reads 'in remembrance of your birthday'..

the reverse of the pinback reads ~

David C. Cook Publishing Co.
Elgin New York Boston

assuming the ribbon & button are original to the bear, it seems the maker is someone who made sunday school supplies starting back in the late 1800's & eventually also made games & toys as well..

he is a sweet little guy & one of our favorite toys..

update: have you ever had your birthday forgotten? see this birthday bear featured in one of my dollscapes up at the ghost gallery here called lost toys.. (go oldschool with a pc or laptop & firefox or google chrome browser so the music will play.. phones & tablets steal it away)

ghost & toxic

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02/21/2020

flashback friday favorite ~ gumby for president

this large vintage gumby for president button was a promotional item in conjunction with the release of fhe's gumby for president vhs videotape ~

from 1987 ~

& i'm also fortunate enough to have this vintage gumby for president t-shirt from 1983 ~

i'm fortunate because this cool item was generously donated to gumbyland for safekeeping ~

village mews company ~

art clokey ~

& is in fact signed on the back by art clokey back in the 80's when he gave talks around the college circuit in california ~

toxic attended an honors geology course down at lbcc in socal at the time & was heartbroken to realize she'd missed art clokey's talk there, so this item feels like a missing piece.. a lost & found item in spirit ~

thanks again deborah! this has been a flashback friday favorite post from 2015.. i'd support a gumby & goo ticket! remember to vote!!! ~

bren

Posted at 09:40 AM in autographs, gumby, novelty, pins & buttons, t shirts, television, vhs | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/26/2019

flashback friday favorite ~ radiohead

i have been enjoying thom yorke's latest cd, anima, which i just received for my birthday, so today's flashback friday post is everything radiohead, from a mother's day of the past ~

ok, so today the new & possibly last radiohead album is supposed to drop & i can't think of anything that would make me happier for mother's day! so my focus is all radiohead today, as i've been obsessed with them from the very beginning.. i even have a radiohead themed playroom for goodness sake ~

of course i have all the cds & dvds & i used to get all the rares from a little shop in belmont shore called fingerprints back in socal ~

the king of limbs, in rainbows vinyl & the universal sigh ~

stanley donwood's kid a & amnesiac books ~

vhs, ephemera & promo items ~

pins, badges & buttons ~

my test specimens page ~

i've just listened to the new album, a moon shaped pool, & i really love the ending of the video for daydreaming ~

by the way, have you been to my art gallery? (note: firefox or google chrome browser required here for sound, use an old laptop or pc since phones steal away the music) ~