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
I love it when you let me know what you think of the items I post on the blog. click on the pictures to enlarge them.
so leave a comment, and feel free to follow
thanks James Little

Just be smart

Some time ago, I saw a nice advertising lamp in a vintage store... Only 30 were made for promoting the Expo bread in The Netherlands. The price was to high!! Just because the shop owner knows I am a expo 58 collector
Just think and be smart!! I asked a friend to go....... and it worked!! It 's so nice in our living room
The colour stripes are rotating and give it a real nice extra
Thanks Dave for shoping for me.


some nice pics related to expo bread




for my followers in the UK

this is one of the UK's pavilion directories


tin boxes allways a nice thing for people in the UK
the round one is of an English maker



Japan at the worl fair

Items of the world fair in 1958 related to Japan are not so easy to find
the only thing I have in my collection is this booklet.



beer coasters


allways nice to find on a flea market, coasres from the world fair.

Somethings are not for sale

Sometimes you see things used as decoration... So sad ... If I only could take it home for my collection

Some vintage lovers and friends have items that I love to add to my collection... Maybe one day Sam will part with this tie bar


Nice book

A friend send me some pictures on Facebook ; if I want this book? oooh yes! I had allready the French copy, now I even have the Dutch one. Thanks Jean Paul De Bruyn. hoop to see you soon


the dutch copy


the french copy


New world fair 1958 LP

After a long search finally in my collection. The benny Goodman recordings from the world fair in 58
LP in good condition, and not even so pricy... allways a plus

Thanks t speedseekers blog

sometimes when friends see something related to the 1958 world fair, they bring it to me.
A big thanks to kris from http://speedseekers.blogspot.be for bringing me this stampcataloge from 1958;

for my Italian followers



the Italian flag on an ashtray


spoons you could collect with the expobread points
one for every country



pick nick table from martine club


still looking for stamps from Italy from 1958 worl fair
Not sure if they exist but you never know

beer mugs

Mayby not so atomic, but still, these were made in 1958 for the world fair in brussels
I do collect everything from the fair so these also, not the most favorite items but always glad to find something new. 
I have some more but do the fact that they are not so atomic I'll spare you more pictures






the blog does his work

Yesterday I got a mail from Eva, a nice girl who visited my blog.
She mailed me some pictures of 45rpm vinyls; in 1958 with  bread (expo brood) you could collect points; you could exchange the points for vinyl with all the numbre one hits of that time.
I allready had some of those vinyls but those I did not.
When I ask what the price was , she mailed me " no price just a gift".
super!
Throught a common friend the will be delivered to me.
 Thanks to Eva
and Chris from http://speedseekers.blogspot.be




Stamps

Next to the stamps from Belgium , now I got some stamps from Hungary from 1958

just one of those days

When I went to buy a comic magazine from 1958 this evening, I could never imagine what it would bring me.
The magazine was super and the man ( Roel) even had an extra attachement, we started talking and out of the blue his wife comes up with old pictures from the1958 world fair, without hesitating she takes them out of the album and gives them to me, as well as her subscription to the fair. to my suprice it looked different to the one I already had
SUPER EVENING !!!!!
Thanks to Roel and Lutgarde

the magazine


the attachement


personal pictures


her brother with some friends from India at the fair


the subscription to the fair
love the star that her brother made back in 1958; if only he still had it

some small stuff




in my personal collection I have a lot of small stuff, I find them on flea markets and driftstores.
sometimes on ebay or etsy. the star gives away that something is from the world fair in 1958.
so if you find something, let me know
greets for now
James Little

let's play


playing cards issued by Torck,Torck has many toys and furniture on the market.
for the worlfair in 1958 they made a walking stick which is also a chair (pics later)
The cards were a nice gift from David Franco (follower) , he found them on the job.
Working can be rewarding....