photax
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Post by photax on Jun 5, 2011 7:37:23 GMT -5
Hi ! I want to show you some advertising gift and toy plastic fantastic`s which I found during the last years. I know this has nothing to do with serious collecting, but they are colourful, funny and cheap ;D. Sometimes you can buy them for cents. You may not believe it, but some of them are hard to find. I think most of them went straight into the waste bin. Here is the crazy part of my collection: McDonalds birthday present camera from 1997 and a WD 40 can-camera from 1992. A 35mm Pokemon camera from 1999 and a German Instamatic from the 1970`s. 1995 limited edition Canon Prima with tiger-design by Janosch (Illustrator of children`s books). A 1990`s cigarette box camera and Kodak Peer-100 cigarettes Instamatic camera from a 1976 promotion competition. Several can cameras for 110-cassettes from the 1970`s. 35mm can cameras from the 1980`s and 1990`s. Two tire-type cameras made in Taiwan 1981. A Instamatic dog camera with removeable nose from the 1970`s and a clown camera from the 1980`s. Some Mickey stuff. The big one is a battery operated bubble camera. A 1999 Polaroid Looney Tunes Taz camera. Iceland Air plane camera made by Sparco Netherlands in 1993. A baseball-, a talking- and a penguin camera. This guy is named “Action Man”, he lost his shoes and has a integrated 110-camera. MIK
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mickeyobe
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 5, 2011 9:35:42 GMT -5
MIK,
Not at all crazy.
Fascinating fun stuff.
If it's a camera and you are a collector then it is a collectable.
Mickey
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photax
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Post by photax on Jun 12, 2011 16:59:23 GMT -5
Mickey, this is my opinion also and I like odd things of any kind just like my Donald Duck shaped popcorn machine ;D . They bring some coloured spots in my shelfs full of black "folder-soldiers". I would also like to say a word about the theme of "serious collecting": Just found an offer on Ebay for the Kodak Peer 100 camera ( picture 4 ): Starting bid 195.- USD ! cgi.ebay.com/Kodak-Peer-100-Camera-/300565039886And I have the original packing with film, flash and manual too. Bought many years ago for about 5.- just for fun. The German website "Photographica World" estimates this item with 220 to 250.- EUR. WOW ! That`s a lot of money for a small piece of plastic... MIK I knew that this is a rare one ( about 100 or 200 built ), but
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