Expo58

Who I'm I, Well, I'm James Little, I live in Belgium . I live a vintage mid century life. Every week-end you find me on the flea markets around Europe. I can't let something go lost, so I buy and buy... you know what I mean

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New flea market finds

Today we spended some time with Jan and his wife Niki at a big flea market in the middle of nowhere. And yes I did find some nice items from the world fair....

The little ' manneke pis' is a rare find. It has the date 1958 on it and that makes it one of the world fair. I was looking for one like that for a long time now. So happy to add this one to the collection

Matches

So many different matches, every company had his own for the world fair in 1958. Back in those days it was a common way to advertise

Give me a drink.. Or give me two

A nice jenever bottle! With the stone glass... Cheers!

Some new finds

What a day at the flea market, again I finded a boch disc with the atomium. This time the yellow one. I have now the green, pink and yellow so far.

Also I finded a parking ticket with the plan on the back. Never seen that before.

Offer your tabacco with style

Back in the days when tabacco was not the enemy jet... On a tea party it was normal to offer some tabacco. In a nice atomic era it would be in something like this...

Nice find!!

Nice 1958 novelty cuff links. Manneke pis is a old statue in Brussels. Everyone goes to see it ,when visiting Brussels. In 1958 they used the images on a lot on souvenirs. Do the statue is not really from 1958 but much older..

Zandfeesten flea market

I live in Bruges, in Belgium. The first Sunday of July , august, and september there's a super big flea market.

It was a rainy day but still we find some mice expo 58 stuff. A cristal vase and a toy ring.. The ring I had already in silver plastic but now I have the 'gold' plastic one too

Some info on the atomium

Dia slide postcards

back in 1958 you had a special kind of post cards; next to your space to write something you had two dia's

to find those kind of post cards with the dia's still attached is super

Flea market find!!!!

Very rare boch! As part of a series, Boch made a series of souvenir items with images of Brussels but also with the coats of arms of the 9 different states in Belgium. To find the complete serie of the 9 states, just made my day!

Living room

Moving into a new home , wil give you the option to redecorating. So now you will find a large part of my collection in the living room.

Ear clips..

Nice earclips from the world fair. Not easy to find. Exist in different colours , happy so far .. Hope to find others in the future. also read earlier post on the matching brooch. my girlfriend likes to show of with this when we go to flea markets! and she does it with so much style.....