lost & found vintage toys: raggedys

lost & found 10th birthday!

Hi & Welcome to the Lost & Found Vintage Toy Blog!

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 10th birthday post! ~

i'm a collector of vintage toys, books & pop culture items, including holiday, retro or even contemporary toys that i particularly like. i host a website called gumbyland that i've maintained for more than 20 years, as my biggest collection is of the 50's character gumby! all the items i have up at gumbyland link back here to show off the collection in detail for my fellow gumby fans, but there's much more here to interest vintage kids & collectors, i've posted a toy, children's book or collectible every day since i started this site 10 years ago ~

my bucket list is to try to find all the toys & books i lost in childhood, & whenever i mention the nickname 'toxic' i am referring to my own inner child (yeah i am a little bit dysfunctional.) i've also been known on the web for years as 'ghost' in part because i like to photograph old cemeteries.. & i also paint & write & create art installations, dollscapes, miniature houses & digital art so i have a ghost gallery of my art up at gumbyland for anyone who's interested.. there are links in the sidebar & footer to all my different sites & pages ~

if you're looking for a particular toy or item please try the search box & the categories list in the sidebar, although i've found it doesn't always work to find all of the items i've posted, so if that doesn't work you might want to peruse through the archives.. each archived month has a page with 3 posts & you can click at the bottom to continue through all that month's posts.. there's even an inventory album in the sidebar with thousands of item thumbnails.. & you can ask a question anywhere using the comments, i am usually able to answer by the following day.. i try to go back & update old posts where appropriate so check back ~

vintage kids & nostalgia buffs please feel free to comment on any of the posts new or old & share your memories here.. from here on i won't be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share, including highlights of fun old posts from the archives that i want to bring back ~

my toy room has changed since i first started posting, so this is an updated look (click on pix for the larger size) ~

my toy room is my happy place.. have fun!! here's your own ghostgallery library card :)

ghostgallery library card	2021
ATT: this official card allows carrier full access to the ghostgallery, gumbyland website & all affiliated blogs, links, albums & archives, including toxic vintage library. do not lose.
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Note: gumbyland & the ghost gallery require laptop or pc for essential music, phones & tablets will disable this feature.

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

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— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

Posted at 09:32 AM in books, dinosaurs, dolls, fisher price, ghosts, gumby, halloween, houses, lost & found, old school, plush, raggedys, scholastic, science, sesame street | Permalink | Comments (0)

04/15/2022

flashback friday favorite ~ friends of the library

i've been to the spring friends of the library sale today ~

i find less & less good kids vintage each time ~

but i always come home with some treasures ~

little golden books, scholastic & wonder books ~

i also venture into some other categories ~

like psychology ~

& ghost stuff ~

lol ~

i also have to check out the dvds & comic box ~

i found a signed comicon issue :) ~

& there are always some free postcards & other paper items found as bookmarks ~

btw i'm wearing this cool official retro smokey the bear t-shirt i just got from the landmark project to help support wildfire prevention education ;) ~

#noboringsocks ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from spring of 2019..

bren

Posted at 07:11 AM in alice, bears, birds, books, christmas, comics, ephemera, ghosts, holiday, little golden books, movies, native american, raggedys, scholastic, television, wizard of oz | Permalink | Comments (0)

03/18/2022

flashback friday favorite ~ library sale

besides being halloween comicfest, saturday was the friends of the library book sale downtown ~

i was in line bright & early to check out the vintage kids' books like these readers & little golden books ~

alice pop-up books & more beatrix potter ~

favorites i found include this golden book of human biology & kids' version of the ha rey book i posted here before ~

more art for children & raggedy ann ~

oz & mr rogers ~

of note: this lost & now found book is the very book toxic's mom used to explain the facts of life to her back in the day :D ~

costumes, Stickers & dover coloring books ~

favorite vintage stories & illustrators like arnold lobel ~

wonderful, fun & sometimes terrifying victorian reproductions ~

mad & madlibs, & of course pride & prejudice & kitties :) ~

this is my xmas! my toxic library is burgeoning.. i'll be sharing these & more through the winter, but for now just click on the categories in the sidebar for much more ~