I noticed on another thread someone mentioned Balkan Sobranie cigarets and it reminded me of a collecting mania we had when at school. We used to collect ( hoping I dont step on any toes here), fag packets.
Of course back in the 40's there were a lot more cigarets being smoked, and it seemed a lot more brands available. We used to collect Regimental badges also, and cigaret cards, but the cigaret packet thing seemed more of a genuine foraging/collecting activity. When the American troops made their appearance in Sheffield in the late 40s we got the paper packets also, Lucky Strike, Camels, Raleigh, etc;etc. Anybody else get into this when they were kids?
Do kids collect anything nowadays, mobile phones, hairspray containers or anything?

Back in the 60s, Embassy cigarette packages used to contain coupons, which you could use to buy gifts from a catalog. I used to save them. If you literally smoked yourself to death you could get something like a TV with them. Imagine a scheme like that nowadays?

I collect all sorts of solid gold coins, not doing to well right now ,in fact i don't have any, so if any one would like to help:help::help::help:

Back in the 60s, Embassy cigarette packages used to contain coupons, which you could use to buy gifts from a catalog. I used to save them. If you literally smoked yourself to death you could get something like a TV with them. Imagine a scheme like that nowadays?

I remember my dad having loads of them, we used to count them for him, I can’t remember getting enough for a TV though.
:D

I collect cigaratte packets. I cut our the fronts and stick them in scrap books. I've obviously ruined them as far as value is concerned, but they look good and are interesting. I started in the early 70s and have a few scrap books full.

During the war we collected shrapnel, bits of bombs and bullet casings.

I used to collect the cards out of the Packets of PG Tips

I used to collect the plastic tags that used to seal sliced loaves before the sellotape took over. There was a different colour for each day of the week's sell by date. I had a whole pot chicken full of them. How sad is that?

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Working for O-Pee-Chee i built and or serviced all the card cutting machine for quite a # of yrs, at the end of the run i always took left overs for the kids to cut up &mum would dutyfully sweep up for the garbage ,you know like all the hockey rookie card yrs now some are worth 1,000-2,000 for each card so every time cards are mentioned i get a funny pain in th pit of my stom the largest card run we ever had was Bat-man, i worked none stop for over 2 months &imean 24-7 i got short sleep on the medical cot Ohappy times

Cheese labels,stamps, cigarette cards and shrapnel.

Cycling around in the 50's, always on the look out for discarded fag packets. Made regular tours of all the local litter bins, very often outside shops which sold cigarettes etc. Some were hard to obtain - Passing Cloud, Three Castles, Sobranie. Capstan Full Strength weren't all that common. The fun went out of it when, in 1959, I was able to go in the shop and buy them.

Cycling around in the 50's, always on the look out for discarded fag packets. Made regular tours of all the local litter bins, very often outside shops which sold cigarettes etc. Some were hard to obtain - Passing Cloud, Three Castles, Sobranie. Capstan Full Strength weren't all that common. The fun went out of it when, in 1959, I was able to go in the shop and buy them.

I also collected fag packets, but I wasn't old enough to buy cigarettes until the mid-1960s, when I developed a taste for Wills' "Passing Clouds" (the fact that they were 4/6 a packet explains why I never became a regular smoker!) Here are some pictures of fag packets that might take you back... http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7965/pashaciggys7si.jpg

Here's a Passing Clouds pack: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9604/passing1ti.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nepforums.co.uk/thisisnorthscotland/showflat.php%3FCat%3D%26Number%3D2975%26page%3D%26 view%3D%26sb%3D5%26o%3D%26fpart%3D69%26vc%3D1&h=347&w=388&sz=25&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=Q-9rijckB9UZlM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522passing%2Bclouds%2522%2Bcigarett es%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

I used to collect used matchsticks from around the benches on the Bowling greens in Concord Park..I then glued them together and made alsorts of model things like boats, airoplanes, castles, I tried to build a model of Blackpool tower but gave up on it...Also it was a good supply of Ammo for my matchstick gun.

I collect cigaratte packets. I cut our the fronts and stick them in scrap books. I've obviously ruined them as far as value is concerned, but they look good and are interesting. I started in the early 70s and have a few scrap books full.

So what's your rarest? Did you ever get 'Sweet Caporal' in anything other than a 50 box?

Can ayone remember petrol stations giving out the coins for the centenary of the f.a. cup in 1972. I still have the full collection

I collected My Little Ponies right upto about 5 years ago..i have hundreds now...all in the loft!!!

Can ayone remember petrol stations giving out the coins for the centenary of the f.a. cup in 1972. I still have the full collection

I also collected them all but gave them to my nephew. You can see pictures of the coins here: http://www.footybits.co.uk/index.php?cPath=124_45

It might have been Esso that also gave out "make money notes" in 1966. When you bought petrol you were given a sealed packet; inside was either the left-hand or right-hand half of an imitation banknote for £20, £50 etc. If you had both halves you won that amount. People used to advertise for the "other half" of a £10,000 note etc., sharing the winnings.

i collected....

* Erasers - of all different shapes, colours and smells !

* Beermats

* sew on badges depicting the place name of where they were bought

* frogs (not real life ones)

Someone once told me, and I thought he was joking, that his wife collected milk bottles.
The thing is, in the early 80's in Southampton the dairies had milk bottles with a colored advertisement on them. They changed frequently and this lady got quite a number of them together, convinced that someday they could be 'collectables'. She could've been right because they dont do them now.

I used to collect the footballer's pictures from Turf fag packets...even used to go rooting through the rubbish tip at the back of the Bramall lane bus depot :gag: - got a few from there ;)

Anybody remember a stall down the rag market back in the old days, I think it belonged to the Patnicks. Anyhow, he used to have some good stuff on there. He had all these boxes of cigaret cards in bundles, selling them for about 3d (old money). But what grabbed me were bundles again of old magazines. I say old, but they were in almost mint condition. I've always been an avid reader and if ever I'd got a little spare bread I'd spend it on these. He sold them for a tanner a bundle. There were 'Strand Magazine' dating from about 1905, 'Gentlemans Magazine' about the same period, really old but clean 'Boys Own Paper' and 'Scout'. Amazing stuff really, be worth a lot of money now, probably worth more than Mr Patnick was selling them for then. Probably they were part of a house clearance.

I noticed on another thread someone mentioned Balkan Sobranie cigarets and it reminded me of a collecting mania we had when at school. We used to collect ( hoping I dont step on any toes here), fag packets.
Of course back in the 40's there were a lot more cigarets being smoked, and it seemed a lot more brands available. We used to collect Regimental badges also, and cigaret cards, but the cigaret packet thing seemed more of a genuine foraging/collecting activity. When the American troops made their appearance in Sheffield in the late 40s we got the paper packets also, Lucky Strike, Camels, Raleigh, etc;etc. Anybody else get into this when they were kids?
Do kids collect anything nowadays, mobile phones, hairspray containers or anything?most lads in the 70"s collected birds eggs,:loopy:we walked miles searching chatsworth house and wentworth dams were always popular ..

I started off collecting PG Tips tea bag cards - I remember getting a whole set of the woodland wildlife ones!

As I got older I went on to rubbers in different shapes and sizes and all with different smells. I had a Daz soap powder one that really smelled of the soap powder! I then went on to beer mats, though I didn't collect many.

Nowadays I've got various bits of collections though I don't go for anything specifically.

I used to collect the plastic tags that used to seal sliced loaves before the sellotape took over. There was a different colour for each day of the week's sell by date. I had a whole pot chicken full of them. How sad is that?

No it's wasn't sad - it was cool in those days. We used to fasten them around the brake cables on our bikes!

I also used to collect:-
Beer mats
Postcards (and still do!)
Pencil Toppers
Keyrings
Soap
and for ages I collected those triangle PDSA tokens from crisp packets. Needed absolutely loads in order to send off for about ten animal posters.

I collected used postage stamps, the cards out of PG tips, fag packet cards, and best of all Train numbers, I spent many happy hours on Darnall station, the bridge over Shirland Lane and Victoria Station.
Later - Green Sheild Stamps, Embassy coupons and Co-op stamps
I still collect used postage stamps, just that I can now afford a decent album
Marion

Forgot!
Golly's off the jam

Marion

I collected the "Beano" http://www.thebookcave.com/images/Beano.JPG
i had a fine collection, or what would seem a fine collection to an 10 year old, must av ad around, 165ish... Bought it every week, i lved it... Sad thing is On the day we moved house, mi mam sent me off to school... i just had to go to the new house after etc while they took care of everything... the big wooden box i kept all my comics in was left behind...:rant:
I was gutted...:rant: i went back to the old house the next day but it had been boarded up as the old house was due to be demolished..... :gag:

I never bought it after that... i could'nt see the point in startin to collect them again.. and anyway.... there were other things in life... we had nice new Neighbours... who had a daughter the same age as me...;)


girls or the beano....??

should av stayed with the beano...

I collect book marks, the leather ones mainly, from NT. gift shops .
although it's not in fashion at the moment, costume jewellery. also scarf clips.

I collect book marks, the leather ones mainly, from NT. gift shops .
although it's not in fashion at the moment, costume jewellery. also scarf clips.

Sorry, I misread the title of the thread.
but even so I was younger when I collected the last ones.

In the 1950s i was a cub/scout and my elder brother went to the jamboree in Sutton Coldfield and I then started collecting "WOGGLES" which kept your neckerchief fastened. I finished up with 100s from all over world.
As usual i cannot recall what happened to them.

I used to collect models of footballers, (Prostars) up until being about 14. I started buying them when I was about 9 at Euro 96, I got a big England box set, wish I'd kept that in the box it'd be worth some money now. Then as I got older I started keeping them all in their boxes and went to the collectors convention in Birmingham. They used to be all I'd spend my pocket money on in Beatties. I'd get rid of quiet a few now, just frustratng as for most even though not in the box I'd not get what I paid for them. There would be some I'd like to hang onto though they made a special edition set when Man Utd won the treble in 1999, signed by Jaap Stam. It cost me £50 which at 12 which a crazy amount, I had to save up for that one.
For a year or something like that I started collecting football progreammes trying to get all the big games, Champions League Finals, F.A Cup Finals, England Games that sort of thing, favourite ones would be Man Utd Champion League Fianl 99 or Engalnd 5 Geramny 2001.

In the 1950s i was a cub/scout and my elder brother went to the jamboree in Sutton Coldfield and I then started collecting "WOGGLES" which kept your neckerchief fastened. I finished up with 100s from all over world. As usual i cannot recall what happened to them.

I also went to the Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield in 1957 (with the Sheffield 238th cubs). It was the 50th anniversary of scouting - the centenary was last year. And I also started to collect woggles. In my case the collecting began with a special bronze commemorative woggle with the scouting emblem, inscribed 1907-1957. They were on sale at the jamboree for half a crown and I blew my pocket money on one. I never actually wore it, as being made of bronze it was too heavy and kept slipping down. Needless to say, I don't still have my woggle collection!

I never realised 'woggles' were made of anything other than a piece of leather, either plain or like bootlaces woven together.

Most of the woggles I had were leather, as was the standard cubs' woggle (brown leather with the Scouts emblem in gold) but I remember being given a hand-carved wooden one by an Austrian scout, and (I think) I had one or two other metal woggles. I think the bronze one I bought at the Jubilee Jamboree in 1957 was "just for show" as it kept slipping down and so wasn't practical. At least one of this year's centenary woggles is a combination of bronze and leather, which would work better - see http://i13.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/b2/28/9160_1.JPG

and here's a rather snazzy brass one:

http://www.woggleland.com/woggle/photo/WK18_2-BRONZE.jpg

Back in the 60s, Embassy cigarette packages used to contain coupons, which you could use to buy gifts from a catalog. I used to save them. If you literally smoked yourself to death you could get something like a TV with them. Imagine a scheme like that nowadays?
im sure berkely did a similar thing or was it lambert and butler in the late eighties i believe i remember workin behind a cagarete counter and the customers used to ask me to ask other customers to get them to save them for them x yea theyd never get away with schemes like that any more lol

:Di used to collect erasers all difrent ones and difrent smells i had 100s you used to be able to get them from wh smiths i remmeber my my favourite one was a big one that looked and smelt like a bar of chocolate im sad lol
also i colected badges little tiny ones with the band (madness ) on them and i pinned them all to a waistcoat denim jacket , it was totaly covered in them & was my pride and joy:D till some sod nicked it at school :rant:

I also used to collect train numbers on Darnall Station and also Kettlebridge. Also used to collect car registration numbers and also loved stamp collecting.

Being a bit of a pertol head and sharing my late fathers love of the motor car, I used to attend at car shows and vehicle launches such as new VWs and Audi at Gilders on Middlewodd Road.

These events enabled me and a couple of my mates to start to amass a large library of vehicle brochures and they all ended up in a large box in alphabetical order.

I think they are all still in the box in my mums loft. !!

I also used to collect the comic Warlord and went from issue 1 to issue 100 when I gave up.

Forgot!
Golly's off the jam

Marion

Me too, weren't they good? (un pc now though:mad:)

Most of the woggles I had were leather, as was the standard cubs' woggle (brown leather with the Scouts emblem in gold) but I remember being given a hand-carved wooden one by an Austrian scout, and (I think) I had one or two other metal woggles. I think the bronze one I bought at the Jubilee Jamboree in 1957 was "just for show" as it kept slipping down and so wasn't practical. At least one of this year's centenary woggles is a combination of bronze and leather, which would work better - see http://i13.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/b2/28/9160_1.JPG

and here's a rather snazzy brass one:

http://www.woggleland.com/woggle/photo/WK18_2-BRONZE.jpgI had one made from an old tobbaco pipe, it was a carved head of a buffalow with little ivory horns..I drilled through the bottom of the bowl and cut off the stem I remember it ponged a bit..If i'd left it as a pipe it would be in some collection by now and worth a few quid.

I had one made from an old tobbaco pipe, it was a carved head of a buffalow with little ivory horns..I drilled through the bottom of the bowl and cut off the stem I remember it ponged a bit..If i'd left it as a pipe it would be in some collection by now and worth a few quid.

It might still be worth something - try looking on eBay under "decorative improvised woggles".:hihi: