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Post by Dave on Jun 8, 2010 18:52:24 GMT
Any major event that is about to take place will always result in companies looking to cash in where possible and allsorts of merchandise end up flooding the market place. Most of it will be cheep rubbish and not really worth buying, but many must as the same companies turn out those sorts of goods year after year. There will always be some good quality products on sale that are worth buying and keeping forever and some will increase in value as the years go on. Leigh and I both own coronation coaches made in 1953 that cost 21 shilling back then and now fetch £300 plus in action houses (Leigh’s even more as he has the very rare one with the king and queen in it) made then only as souvenirs and I bet those who bought them when they first came out would have never guessed they would be worth so much now. Barton put up a thread sometime ago with a picture of something he once bought as a world cup souvenir; maybe he can remember what board he put it on and put a link to it on this thread. So I have two questions for you all, the first one is have you ever bought any world cup souvenirs and if so for what world cup, what did you buy and have you got a picture of it you can post up or sent to me at the forums email address so I can put it up. torquayfansforum@yahoo.co.uk Question two is what is the strangest world cup souvenir you have ever seen for sale? Below is a picture I took today in the yard at Jewsons in Barnstaple, they are on sale at most building supply companies and I know Brandon Hire shops have them for sale as well. I believe they cost about £49 each and somehow I don’t think unlike the coronation coaches from 1953 that they stand any chance of ever increasing in value.  |
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Post by lambethgull on Jun 8, 2010 19:06:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 19:58:54 GMT
Barton put up a thread sometime ago with a picture of something he once bought as a world cup souvenir; maybe he can remember what board he put it on and put a link to it on this thread. That's good old World Cup Willie from 1966:  I've still got my freebie Coca Cola plastic glass from 2006, a Euro 2004 cereal bowl, an Atherton's Barmy Army 1994/95 baseball cap and a 1993 Copa America cushion - all brought back from my travels. Alas, no 1970 Esso World Cup coins:  |
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Post by loyalgull on Jun 9, 2010 18:55:45 GMT
i have 2 sets of the esso world cup coins if i find them in this cluttered house you can have a set barton downs,going off the world cup a little bit i have also got the sticky badges they did as well,which featured none other than our own tufc,the reason i got them is my mates dad used to own the bovey straights petrol station at that time so i got given them
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2010 21:59:31 GMT
i have 2 sets of the esso world cup coins if i find them in this cluttered house you can have a set barton downs,going off the world cup a little bit i have also got the sticky badges they did as well,which featured none other than our own tufc,the reason i got them is my mates dad used to own the bovey straights petrol station at that time so i got given them Thanks for the kind offer but I'll probably be disappointed after all these years. But if you can post a few on the site, please, that would be great. Coins were the rage for a while - vintage cars and something to do with moon landings, perhaps? I believe the badges were issued in 1971 - Esso? - and, indeed, TUFC's was featured on publicity banners outside garages up and down the country. I remember seeing one twenty miles short of John O'Groats. I was a speccy, swotty fifteen-year-old on a coach tour with my mum who - whenever the opportunity arose - was liable to leave a spot of TUFC graffiti in roadside Scottish toilets (that's me rather than my mother before the Old Grammarian Grammar Police descend). The disgrace of it. |
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Post by loyalgull on Jun 9, 2010 22:09:17 GMT
i have 2 sets of the esso world cup coins if i find them in this cluttered house you can have a set barton downs,going off the world cup a little bit i have also got the sticky badges they did as well,which featured none other than our own tufc,the reason i got them is my mates dad used to own the bovey straights petrol station at that time so i got given them Thanks for the kind offer but I'll probably be disappointed after all these years. But if you can post a few on the site, please, that would be great. Coins were the rage for a while - vintage cars and something to do with moon landings, perhaps? I believe the badges were issued in 1971 - Esso? - and, indeed, TUFC's was featured on publicity banners outside garages up and down the country. I remember seeing one twenty miles short of John O'Groats. I was a speccy, swotty fifteen-year-old on a coach tour with my mum who - whenever the opportunity arose - was liable to leave a spot of TUFC graffiti in roadside Scottish toilets (that's me rather than my mother before the Old Grammarian Grammar Police descend). The disgrace of it. thats right the coin phase went on for a while,does anyone remember the put a tiger in your tank phase?,everyone was driving around with tiger tails on their ariels.Garages like esso and shell did a lot of gimmicks like these,when petrol was 20pence a gallon,i dont think those prices will return sadly |
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Post by Rags on Jun 10, 2010 7:07:54 GMT
I drove past an Esso garage at the weekend and saw a banner advertising 24 World Cup medals on offer. Normally I buy my petrol at whatever garage within 10 miles of my house offers the cheapest price. However, in the face of this blatant promotion, I quickly made the mature, economically-driven sensible decision to buy all my petrol from Essofor the next few weeks.
A few days later I was chatting to a mate who'd had his head similarly turned by such a promotion but he told me that there is no album to keep them in and that the bloke taking his payment at the petrol station he goes to had to root around "under the counter" for the medal rather than have them proudly on display.
I now discover that Esso are handing out one medal for every £15 spent on fuel so with a full collection costing a minimum of £360 (obviously not including the free £15 worth of petrol with every medal!), it looks as if it is a better option for me to buy the complete set from e-bay for £4.99.
But where's the fun in that?
Is anyone here collecting these medals and have a more positive experience to report?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2010 8:40:34 GMT
 A woman stands in front of the wooden statues representing the various soccer teams taking part in the 2010 World Cup at a shopping centre at Sandton - Wednesday June 9, in Johannesburg. . |
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Post by Rags on Jun 10, 2010 8:51:16 GMT
A woman stands in front of the wooden statues representing the various soccer teams taking part in the 2010 World Cup at a shopping centre at Sandton - Wednesday June 9, in Johannesburg. . She has the look of someone who is simultaneously disgusted and flattered by a comment being made to her. I can think of a caption involving John Terry and the status, but I daren't say it as I know this is a family forum...  |
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Post by merse on Jun 10, 2010 9:20:26 GMT
She has the look of someone who is simultaneously disgusted and flattered by a comment being made to her.
I can think of a caption involving John Terry and the status, but I daren't say it as I know this is a family forum...  ...................but she has that "far away look" ~ she's definitely thinking about it. ;D Stuart would only try to tell us those statues were in fact large clothes pegs and start banging on about who sells them. Thinking of John Terry, did you see the aftermatch of when Chelsea clinched the Premiership title? The players were gathering by the pitch ready to take their wives/WAGs onto the pitch with their kids and the TV director cut away to a rather lost looking woman pushing a baby in a pram in the tunnel and I immediately thought to myself "oh no, here we go again"  |
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Post by merse on Jun 10, 2010 9:24:11 GMT
Actually, they didn't need to make one of an England player; isn't that the real Ashley Cole in that picture? 
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Post by Dave on Jun 10, 2010 15:55:12 GMT
So far this week I have seem about 20 England car flags by the roadside that come adrift from cars and I'm a bit surprised how few cars have flags on them. I have seem many houses with flags in the garden or hanging from windows and in last weeks Herald Express there was a picture of a house in Torquay that has had the flag painted on the whole of the front of the house, only the people who live there described themselves as not really being football lovers. I have found what I want to buy and put in my garden and I took his picture today In Taunton at Brandon Hire who I wanted to call on. I'm sure you have all seen these types of things that are connected to an air pump to keep them up.  |
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Post by stuartB on Jun 10, 2010 23:10:31 GMT
Stuart would only try to tell us those statues were in fact large clothes pegs and start banging on about who sells them. who does sell them as I'd love to get some?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 9:24:01 GMT
The Mirror recently mentioned the current value of some of the more well known World Cup souveniers from tournements past. The Esso coins apparantly being less valuable than I'd have guessed.  Programme This 1958 World Cup Final programme was for Sweden v Brazil. costing 9p. It's up for auction in June with an estimated price of £200-£300. Esso Coins A definite must-have back in 1970 were the 30 Esso World Cup collectors coins, depicting the England squad and given away with every four gallons of petrol and are now worth £1 each. STAMPS AND FIRST DAY COVERS The Korea 2002 World Cup minisheet with commemorative stamp is now worth about £4. Then: £2 NOW £4 STICKERS The 2006 Germany World Cup is already finding a place in collector's hearts - a completed Panini Sticker Album. Then £30, now £40. Duracell Bunnies Official commemorative electronic Duracell Bunnies from 2002 Korea/Japan really do have staying power. The toys went along with an advertising campaign showing the bunny scoring goals. If they are boxed and in mint condition they have become soughtafter collector's pieces already. One dealer is currently asking £250 when they originally cost £15. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 9:43:14 GMT
I suppose we have to move with the times but some of the England themed merchandise on sale for this World Cup bears little comparison with an Esso coins collection. I fear that this could leave World Cup Willie redundant.  World Cup Merchandise You Must Have! The England Scoregasm. Where to begin with this wildly uncalled-for sex aid? Perhaps with the blurb, which informs us: "It's the remote control love egg that shows you're a true fan." Do go on. "The remote control works from up to 10m away," we learn, "so hand the controller to your partner and let them surprise you when England score!" And really, what could be more erotic than sitting earplugged and out of sight of a telly, your sexual satisfaction dependent on an Algerian own goal? Very little, apparently. "Go 45 minutes each way with the Scoregasm Love Egg," the manufacturers promise, "and you'll feel like you've won the Cup. Just watch out for that studs-up tackle from behind!" We'll leave it there, on balance. |
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