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Rick Milne joins Tony McManus to talk Antiques and Collectables. 

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Speaker 1

Five o'clock won't work, and then.

Speaker 2

I broke in umbraa a rusty from we.

Speaker 3

Say here on Australia. Opennight, let us do the thinking for you that what we do why i've track show. Look who it is Alec mill named except collectibles.

Speaker 2

Morning, good morning Kenny.

Speaker 4

Let us do.

Speaker 2

I have to say you better spill for that for that person? If your Luin because not l e w y inn it's a very unusual spelling.

Speaker 3

Yes, yes, it is a Luin estate wines which have been doing some wonderful things. That it's l e e u l e e u w a in luin estate.

Speaker 2

Is there?

Speaker 3

It's spilled l e yea l e e u w i InLu Yeah, and it's good.

Speaker 2

That's good w a one. You're quite right with the.

Speaker 3

Beautiful w a wine. And I mean at that price point for what they do in their Chardonnays and their entry level cabinet for example, and you can spend a lot more, but as a entry point it is a cracking wine. Hello too.

Speaker 2

As a matter of fact, if it comes to that, what's.

Speaker 3

Some good wines in South Australia, some stunning wines. Stunning wines in so well, they've got so much which the McLaren You've got your Cuna warr, you've got your clear and you've got your great, beautiful, juicy, big red wines from the Barossa. Yep, so much wine, so very and then we're all going to die and we go. I wish, I wish I had a taste of that, and it'll be way too late. Lots of lots of people. We jump on board. Don't leave us here, as we always say,

don't leave us until the last moment. We get a whole bank of calls. R in a B ten to the jump on nice and early one double three six nine three. The great brand that you and I know and love for many a year is the brand n It's anoubts and it's Apostrophe. I love.

Speaker 2

She started way back of all places in Newcastle, That's what the That was their very first and was called the Arnott's Steam Biscuit Factory.

Speaker 3

Was it really? And it's steam biscuit steam.

Speaker 2

I have no idea what steam pack and that's I don't know. I suppose how they reduced them at the time, I don't know. But this is a lovely one little girl and she's got a catching the pack, and this is a great catch, and it's really early, a very early one. I would think, probably, I'd never guess the nineteen twenties. What do you reckon? That sort of feels like it doesn't that well.

Speaker 3

You can look at the way she's dressed, if I can just share, So she got a lovely dress on, gorgeous looking. Think she'd only be maybe eight nine ten, something like that. She's playing with the bob of biscuits or throwing it in the air, and her hair is so beautifully done. We don't see that anywhere near as often as we once did.

Speaker 2

No, I would say, probably narine, I'll guess nineteen twenties and are very rare, and of course and probably I'll look it's hard to say it a thousand. Perhaps I wouldn't be surprised it is because it's cardboard, and cardboard was destroyed and you got damaged into her course, so rather than the enamel signs which will last forever, but cardboard didn't quite so much as a big higher failure rate, so therefore they tend to be a bit more expensive.

So i'd think certainly heading that way at least now many hundred.

Speaker 3

Special I haven't done any sufficient research, but I'm thinking, was it there not a relationship at some point between it and Brockoff.

Speaker 2

Brockoff was a Melbourne brand from Port Melbourne and the fellow who owned it, his name was Jack Brockoff, was one of Melbourne's first philanthropists. He was He gave a large part of his fortune away. They may have joined up in you know, later times. I really don't. I don't recall exact I think they probably.

Speaker 3

I think may well have taken them out, That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 2

But yeah, because you don't see brock up anymore. But anyway, they were, so there we are. So that's that's a nice little story that one.

Speaker 3

Yeez, let's take a couple of these calls. We don't want to live in? Why don't we do? Gregg's in shot in the morning, Grego.

Speaker 2

Guys, how can we help it? Wick in books? You don't do. But I've got a Rosawa of guards. Yeah and handwalkom Armstrong Siddy Sapphire, how about that? Wow, that's a while ago. Yeah, well we right about him for a car? Really arm Strong Sidley Sapphire? Would you get fifty to that? And I assume it's going to be in pretty reasonable condition, because often when people had the handbooks, they used to use them when they did a bit of repairs, and sometimes they get a bit of a

bit of oil and so forth on them. I assume yours is nice and clean, and if it is, there are people. They're not bad. But you've got to remember that it's been used to bits so to here, so there's a few little marks here and there on it. Yeah, well, I've got to tell you there be people salivating about this, and because they've probably somebody out there's got I'd love a handbook. I would love so I would suit, yes, these days probably then for something like that. To be

honest about it, I don't recall that. The Sapphire, I really don't recall it. What year can you tell me? I have to be tree.

Speaker 3

It's got to go back just post war.

Speaker 2

I would have thought, were sure, sure, Yeah, I reckon. I would say one hundred plus, and it could be a bit more than one hundred plus. It could be heading towards a couple of hundred. So it's a bit of a bitty glen and there would be people out there looking for that one. For sure.

Speaker 3

We had an Armstrong Greg thank you. We had an Armstrong Siddeley at home. That is Dad found one back and this is going back in the mid sixties. Board at home. We had one of those little car ports, so we put it up. He took the engine out. He had that ability would take the engine out at night.

He would repair the engine and rebuild it would take some weeks to rebuild it using a Lathe put it all back in then completely, you know, do the car, polish it all our brand new wheels and all that sort of stuff, brand new tires, and then sell it for then In those days the margins were not massive, surprisingly, but it was enough to play the school fees for that term.

Speaker 2

And he just he was will he was a master and.

Speaker 3

He loved them. The arms Strong siedy black, beautiful black, big juicy car. It was just gorgeous, quite a beauty. You say that we'll come back. Plenty of calls one double three sixty nine three. You can jump in as well, Come and join us. Tony McManus, Rick Milne is here. Its antiques and collectibles. But don't leave us by ourselves.

And because what happens is I always say we all say it each and every week we get to a round about ten to the hour and the phone disappears and we don't get to all the calls one double, three, six nine three, Getting nice and early Milne, antiques and collectibles, all part of Australia. Every night we catch up with Rick nationally on the program, and now we do that

in what we call the one o'clock hour. For those in other parts of Australia, for example, you would be tuning in soon after twelve thirty would be the time for Rick, and in Wa you'll be listening soon after ten thirty. I've got that right, Is that right? Yeah? I think so. So you've got the gist of it. Rick Milne is a regular contributor and has been for many many a year now. The F one movie, I don't know, we've been following this Rick Milton gets underway.

I think it's been released tomorrow. One of the fascinating things about this is that it's been heavily sponsored, if you like, by because it's about F one, it's been heavily sponsored by a watch manufacturer. Yes, it all links in and so if I said to you, what was one of the first film's first movies that heavily linked in a watch to the film, to the movie or the you know, the series of films as it turned out in the end, what would you imaginely easily think.

Speaker 2

Of Now that's a pretty good question, Bond, pretty good quest question. It would have been I saw him as going back years and years ago. It was about a racing car driver who got I think he got a terminal illness. And I have a feeling it might have featured a very young who was somebody has become very famous since. And anyway, it was racing car driver and they and he was timed in his in his in his races, but he got he had he suffered a terminals. It was called Bobby Deerfield.

Speaker 3

Bobby Deerfield.

Speaker 2

Yes, and I it featured somebody who's very famous now who's done lots and lots of movies, which is I think one of his first films. Look it up, Bobby Deerfield.

Speaker 3

Bobby Deerfield. I will this movie f won the movie that's inspired by f one registered the movie. It's heavily promoted by I WC. I WC watches and they've got various versions that have been featured in the movie. The Pilots Watch the Pilots Watch Chronograph, the Big Pilots watch Shock Absorber to Beyond Skeleton, which would be amazing. Plenty of money for that, I wouldn't think. And the pilot Watcher performance Chronograph, perpetual calendar, digital date month, a lot

of money for those wonderful pieces from IWC. How do I know that? I've just been sent an email from the good people that IWC.

Speaker 2

I wonder. So was it like product placement it.

Speaker 3

Is, Yeah, it would be. Yeah, imagine it would be product placement massively, I would have thought, and they'd be spending a lot of money. Because Apple's done the movie itself with Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2

I've noticed they've done that previously with things like breakfast cereal manner of things that they've placed delicately. In fact, was one definitely done by Royal Dalton, and that was something like a bulldog or something that was on a desk in one of the one of the James Bond movies, as I recall, and it took off. It started selling phenomenally after the movie came out. People saw this thing and said, Wow, I love it, I want to buy one.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it was the same thing with Aston Martin and Bond all those years ago. I mean they were so intrinsically linked forever. Aston and James Bond were one and the same early watch wearing was his role leg So I think in very early Bond movies years later, Mega said well we want to slice of that pie. So they poured in and became very closely linked with Bond films.

Speaker 2

It's amazing how they asked what they call product placement, and the people who who pay for it pay a large amount of money. I know that's definitely that Roald Dalton did with this, this one that was I'm pretty sure it was one that featured that English actress, that very famous English woman who appeared in quite a few of those sort of films, and and it was on the desk and they'd come into the place and they said, oh,

look isn't it that looks beautiful? They may mention of it. Wow, that's was that of success.

Speaker 3

It was the actor you were thinking of, el Pacino, Yes, what there you go? The good Doctor just said a text through el Pacino, Thank you good doctor el Pacino. So what do you would that have been that film?

Speaker 2

Did you mention that would be?

Speaker 3

Oh?

Speaker 2

At least see, I'll say thirty years ago.

Speaker 3

There you go, Justin and Frankston, what do you got for it? Hello?

Speaker 5

Hey, tiny Mac, how are you mate?

Speaker 3

What have you got?

Speaker 5

Okay?

Speaker 2

So I've got.

Speaker 5

Something very rare. I've got a nineteen eighty eight fifty cent point from Australia. But on the reverse it's got what looks to be like a sailing ship, and it's got Australia seventeen eighty eight to nineteen eighty eight, and it's actually got Australia as New Holland.

Speaker 3

There it is the nineteen eighty eight commemorative coin. Presumable.

Speaker 2

They were commemorative coin, and it was one that was available. And look they've done hundreds of fifty cent coins with all manner of things. On the reverse it is from nineteen eighty eight rather than seventeen eighty eight, of.

Speaker 3

Course, wasn't it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, And it'll be just a coin from that year, justin will it won't be one of a kind they've done. In fact, the very first fifty cent coin we had was a round one circular one in nineteen sixty six, worth a bit of money, have ten to fifteen dollars. But it sounds like it should be with a lot of money, but it's not. So there we are, there's the story.

Speaker 3

Good on you, thank you for that. Justin it's interesting too, just going back to the watches for a moment, Rick, is that some of those big Swiss watchmakers now will release a piece, but it will be a limited release, so they may only do fifty five or ninety pieces for worldwide, so they all become very collectible just because there are so few of them being released to the public.

Speaker 2

I don't like that. I've never liked it. And I'm not necessarily talking about watches. I'm talking about anything that they release just a handful of to to make a vast amount of money, because that's exactly what happens, and I'm not for it. I think it's not quite right. What do you feel about that?

Speaker 3

Look, I'm not collector of that sort of those sort of price points obviously, but for those that are, that becomes important. So if Rolelex for example, or IWC for the matter, doing a release, chances are it could be an extraordinary piece, particularly crafted to maybe even wrap around an event or in this case of film, and then people will want to get their hands on it, very.

Speaker 2

Very quickly and they travel. Is the only people who end up with those things are.

Speaker 3

Rich people, well, because they go into the market that those price points. I mean, there's not too many people around that are going to spend fifty sixty hundred or one hundred and fifty thousand or more sometimes for something that desirable.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yes, and you're right, and.

Speaker 3

Just ask Russell Kross.

Speaker 2

I've never quite but I do understand limited editions and I'd rather have, you know, I'd rather have fifty of something than twenty five thousand of something, which they still call limited editions if your don't mind, Yeah, a dumb mine empire. So you know, really I get it that I kind of with something like that worldwide, it really becomes something that a little toward for rich people, isn't it ready?

Speaker 3

Nicholas Brunswick, So hello to Rick Milton, good morning.

Speaker 1

Like yeah, well, got in front of me. It's the Victoria Racing Club Coronation and Birthday Meeting on Friday, sorry, firstday, Tuesday of second of June. An official program might'steen fifty three.

Speaker 2

Nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 1

Did you say, yeah, Elizabeth Coronation and Birthday Meeting.

Speaker 2

Okay, yeah, Look the earlier race books do so rather well. In fact, I have somebody who's a race book collector. In fact, when when we get to it, it's one thing I was going to mention, this's race books. So there are people that collect that's things, Nicholas. And you've just got the one, have you.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it's it's it's about the size of a I know I know what they are.

Speaker 2

I'm a racing person, so I do know that. I do know it. And it's from nineteen fifty three from it was to do with the coronation. Was it on the front of it.

Speaker 1

It's got the crown up the top, it's got the Victoria Racing Club a crown underneath it.

Speaker 2

Elizabeth R.

Speaker 6

Yeah, knows that coronation.

Speaker 1

And birthday meeting on Tuesday the second of June nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 2

That's good. That's probably worth somewhere about around about three hundred. It's a rather a shame you've done some others, Nicholas, because all that I have to say that will be worth more than others from around about that time. But nonetheless, somebody, generally speaking, when somebody has one race book, they've got one hundred one race books. But you've just got the one. It's been past the ice down through the family, has.

Speaker 6

It it has?

Speaker 1

Yeah? Just looking here at race four three twenty Coronation Cup. Remember this horse Durham, Durham.

Speaker 6

Yeah, well that's the top weight in race number four and that was at three twenty pm the Coronation Cup. So it's the full book and it's nearly mint condition.

Speaker 2

Yeah. Well there you go. I have to giving you a price. I hope that's help to you. Nicholas.

Speaker 3

Good on, Nicholas, thank you for being part of the program. We'll do this when we come back here plenty of time. Vehicles jump on board. Rick Milne and his Antiques and Collectibles one double three six nine three, Good morning, gooda. What where have you are right across Australia. Nice to have yours joined the program. Lck Milne is on a little earlier than usual because I think we used to do it too. Now we do it at one o'clock right around Australia. If you'd like to be part of it.

One double three six nine three Rick Red White improves with age and the white liquid not so much Bruno, not quite tr but thank you for that contribution. Another one says, what was the joke that has brock Off as a punch line? I don't know. I wonder if anybody else knows, Rick, what was the joke that had brock Off as the punchline?

Speaker 2

I don't know that one, and it sounds like it might mightn't be the sort of thing we talk about radio.

Speaker 3

I'm to be wrong about that. That's that's I guess.

Speaker 2

By the way, I should mention tourney you've mean mentioned in dispatches, I would have to do a little gig with a little spot with Jackie Felgate and I did so. She they rang and said could you do a little story here, and I said, yeah, sure, happy to do it.

Speaker 3

Just for those for those around Australia.

Speaker 2

Jackie got a good mention there.

Speaker 3

That's very kind, just for those around Australia. Jackie Felgate is the host of the Drive program on three a W here in Melbourne.

Speaker 2

Yes, yeah, I should have mentioned that.

Speaker 3

I'm sorry, No, that's fine. And so so my name came up from jack and your good self.

Speaker 2

See introduced me, and I said, well, I do a program with Donny McManus and another spot with Simon and Andrew and yeah, you did get a mention in there. There we go, very.

Speaker 3

Kind Maryland and Franks in morning your.

Speaker 7

Morning chiny, which goes money? If you're telling me I have a cut the rolltop desk? Is there any value in these books anymore? With the bean brown furniture? I need to get rid of it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, look there is. And I'll tell you what I'd ask you to do. Maryland. I'll put you in touch with somebody if you call me. Rather than me giving out one hundred phone numbers, I'll just give out mine. And if you'd like to give us a call after well in the morning, so we'll see o'clock Eastern Australian time, eight o'clock Western Australian time, Maryland, if you'd like to, I'll give you my number and I can put you in touch the number of zero for one eight three

three nine mm one zero three. And this is interesting. I remember my grandfather had one of those. I loved it. The beauty those roll top desks. How about that? Yep? So anyway, if you do that, yes, this was my grandfather's.

Speaker 7

It's timed you downsize?

Speaker 2

Wow, yeah, I blame it.

Speaker 3

L What what age approximately do you think that might be Marylyn.

Speaker 7

I would have to be over one hundred years old. Then my grandfather got it from the old town that I come from. It was the doctor's desk.

Speaker 2

Well how about that? Well my grandfather had one too, so how about that. That's that's a good story. But yeah, be able to help Marylynd for sure. Or if you give us a call and I've got you've got the number, so after ten, if you don't.

Speaker 3

Mind, Maryland's a great from What were they made? Do we know, Rickle? Did they have various levels of timber to make those beautiful?

Speaker 2

Tell you an interesting story. Some of them had underneath made by commonwealth hands, in other words, made by can we say, white hands. That's what they were saying, because at the time they were also making them in Japan and so forth. But it was a bit on the racious side, but that's how it was in those days. And they did actually say it had well and say it. There was a little little sign on the bottom of the back that said made like common Wealth hands hands, you know, commonwealth labor.

Speaker 3

Do you go huey crazy? Really hueye in Gaula, good morning.

Speaker 4

Good morning?

Speaker 2

How are you? How can we help you?

Speaker 4

I rang before to talk about June Lockoup, but you're still on my thunder, So now I'm talking about my antique that I have.

Speaker 3

What do you got?

Speaker 4

It's a metal I'm not sure what sort of metal for these teapot said, I think it may be made of pewter.

Speaker 2

I'm not sure. Yeah, but it.

Speaker 4

Was maybe in England by Elworthy and Sons.

Speaker 2

Is it quite ornate?

Speaker 4

Yeah, very Yeah, it's got a a lead on the teapot which.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, I know all about it. I hate to tell you this year we but they're almost unsellable these days. People don't never use them.

Speaker 4

When I bet you've never used it now, it's never been used.

Speaker 2

It's been in this family, nobody. It's a teapot that nobody ever uses. They're heavy and they're sort of just a heavy metal, really heavy metal. Very they're very ornate. But there's.

Speaker 4

Also a milk jag and a little sugar bowl as well.

Speaker 2

They're often they're often together. Look they're they're not quite so bad. The the look a lot about one hundred bucks a lot. I have to tell you, they're not. They're just nobody ever uses them.

Speaker 4

They just they never tell it anyway, because it's just been in the family for so long.

Speaker 2

Of course, and it's always the way. But you know, if I have a teapot, frankly that teapot, I like to use it, you know, And I get I do understand why it stays in the family, and it'll stay. It should stay in the family, and it will be it'll be passed down through the generations and that'll sit there. And and you you can't do much with fewter You can't clean it up. It doesn't it's not le stil By one. That doesn't work. It's a much heavier metal

than that. But they are very, very often, very ornate. They look great, but they're just they're just people don't ever use them. Just one of those things.

Speaker 4

Paid for me. He bought it as a church fair and he in nineteen sixty five. He paid one shilling for it.

Speaker 2

That'll be right, one shilling. Well, by the way we might explain, one shilling is kind of the equivalent of ten cents, but of course it's worth a lot more. It was worth a lot more then than ten cents is now. Probably. In other words, he's probably paid the equivalent of about five dollars, not about what it amounts to the day I.

Speaker 3

Got to Hue, thank you. I got to tell you, though, rick a Kappa made in a really good pot is still a wonderful thing to be able to do.

Speaker 2

Only way to go we use, we use. We're teap hop people where we drink greats. It happens, and we've got a robot tea button that's got an infuser and we put two two two spoonfuls in and sort of half a one and it's just the best you've got it, and it's got to be loose to you kind of sorry, sorry folks, but t bears don't. They just don't cut it the same way.

Speaker 3

So for years I'd pined over the romance associated with land Hue tea for nothing else to cut off all those bloody lids and then take into a shop to pick up anyway.

Speaker 2

You used to have to. You take about one hundred hundred ends off them and end up with you end up with something like a tea towel that's worth the greatest in history. You didn't win a mer saydies.

Speaker 3

So memory is there was a little shop down the back of little Berkshire, somewhere really remote. You're going here, I've got my tea bags. Here here's the thing. Ah right, I've got a little bowl, thank you, and off you go. And man was really happy with it.

Speaker 2

It costs you more money to get into town and nothing's.

Speaker 3

Work on the train. But the so I lashed out and thought I'll just reinvent the idea with some land sheu tea. I can't tell you how disappointing.

Speaker 2

It was, that's true. I know somebody collected I tink two hundred and ended up with a crappy old two towel.

Speaker 3

Things we did by promotions. In my hot little hand, I got a wonderful photo. This is of the North Melbourne Football Club. It's a membership card.

Speaker 2

All this I have. I've put this in on be well as a little tribute to my wife, who's a Caangar, has been forever and she had a big smile on her face on the weekend. So good luck to her and good luck to the Cangas. It's a lovely little card. Just by the way, it's an old membership card from nineteen thirty three and they only joined into the it was then the VFL only joined in nineteen twenty five, so they didn't have a huge didn't have a huge

supporter base, and they weren't very successful. The teams that came in battled for years and years and years. There was Hawthorne, North Melbourne and Footscray and they just didn't you know, for years they were just the chopping blocks. They were the last teams for a very long time. So as a result, because it's a rare one, it's worth about three hundred dollars and I would imagine there's probably only who were those days. There would have had

maybe two or three hundred members, that's all. And of course the big teams, the teams that were successful had been there forever. They just made mincemeat of these sort of teams and as a result there was only a very modest number of these around the place. But it's a very attractive little card.

Speaker 3

Well. The revenue around membership these days is so important to measure every one of our AFL clubs, But presumably in the early thirties that would not necessarily have been the case.

Speaker 2

It was only a handful, a handful of members, yep, but a handful yep, really, And it's changed how dramatically and now it's just phenomenon yep, many many ways.

Speaker 3

Lots of text coming. We'll get to them in just a moment, including two hundred and forty seven thousands saying it. Rick starts the program in w way eleven o'clock perth time. Thank you for all those people. I think I said ten thirty for some reason anyway, from eleven o'clock for Rick, which is one o'clock, and another one in particular says Rick is now on one. Any reason for that, well, only because Rick has other commitments at this time of the morning, and so we've moved Rick to one so

we can have an early night. And God only knows he needs our beauty.

Speaker 2

Sleep doesn't work, but it doesn't work, hasn't worked at all of them, right done, he really needs it.

Speaker 3

We'll do this plenty of time. Jump on board, Come and join us one double three six' nine. Three you must have something tucked away in there about which we will love some. Information you can join us to the other side of. This just looking at some of those great, players the one that stands out for me From North melbourne At Rick Milne Glen, archer number.

Speaker 2

Eleven what a player AND i know that, no he was some. Player CAN i tell you very, quickly a very funny story About North. Norman many years. Ago the best player for the team won a ten of biscuits and he was, asked once he'd finished the tin of, biscuits could he bring the tin back so they could get their.

Speaker 3

Deposit there it, is get the tin back for the, deposit.

Speaker 2

Isn't that true? Story true story of the fellow's name Was Liz foot and he was quite a superstar and he had to hate the. Biscuits they had to return it because they could get their money back on the runny back on the. Ten great.

Speaker 3

Story, now tell me about this tiny little camera it.

Speaker 2

Is it is strictly. Tiny if you put your thumb, out it would be much bigger than no, bigger no, bigger tiny tiny. Camera AND i think it's worth and We're i'll be guessing couple hundred, dollars one hundred to turn. Dollars it's a really tiny and it's a it's a real, camera believe it or, not a real. Camera and the next one is even. Better how old.

Speaker 3

Would that be? THAT i, mean that looks amazing branded corn It, YEAH i.

Speaker 2

Would say, Probably i'll say, thirties, thirties. Forties really, yeah, amazing isn't it.

Speaker 3

Just a gorgeous.

Speaker 2

Piece in order you would have he'd get the film into, it they wouldn't. Be my big lumpy hands were no good trying to put the film in that little tiny. Thing and it's really no bigger than your, thumb no bigger than your.

Speaker 3

Thumb it's, amazing no bigger than my. Thumb.

Speaker 2

Yep and the next one is. Great it's a Cracker Jack harmonica's honeycombs of harmony and this little character AND i, reckon he's our little.

Speaker 3

Beauty any gorgeous.

Speaker 2

Looking and by the, way that's not a huge. Sign that's that would be if you put your two hands together side by. Side that's about its, size which is. GREAT i mean the smaller it's a funny thing to, say the smaller sign is the more valuable it is because it's so much easier to place than if you've got some gigantic thing that fills up half the. House that's going to be worth a lot lot less because

it's it's harder to show this One i've. SEEN i sought an anti center for fifteen hundred dollars AND i actually do have that. One as that, HAPPENED i didn't pay that ALL i can tell, you But i've heard it for years and, years and he, is AND i think it's just a LITTLE i think it's a little sort of a sailor or the biggest smile on his. Face hasn't he just a happy little?

Speaker 3

Guys just look at that mouthful of. Teeth look at.

Speaker 2

Them, yeah he, teeth haven't?

Speaker 7

He?

Speaker 2

Yep.

Speaker 3

Yep so you know all those little toys that we would GET i think literally in a wheaties, Box, yes we, did where some people actually get their license from a bloody wheaties. BOX a drive, accordingly, HOWEVER i. DIGRESS i take the. Point but remember, THAT i, mean as a, kid we would live for those little toys that would be wrapped in in some sort of foil or plastic or whatever it, was and you'd have to build it and put it together a little.

Speaker 2

County let me tell you that there are two coffee table size books on the subject of those little plastic, toys and some of them if you've got some color variations of certain crater critters or what they did tuli, birds in other, words like a bird with a Sawt if you've got a certain color one of the, variations they can be worth many hundreds of dollars and there are two absolutely coffee table size, books huge books on those serial. Toys they were so.

Speaker 3

Good have you AND i talked about that matchbox? Cars, no we have. Not are they still desirable in any? Way?

Speaker 2

Yes they are only the ones that were made in THE. Uk you, know it's an amazing. Thing how companies why do they do? It they, think, OH i know what we can. Do we can make them in The philippines or somewhere else for a lot less. Money and as soon as they've done, that they've destroyed their. Brand and as a, result the ones from later years and where you can actually see the toys through a sort of a perspecus cover on the, front they can actually see the.

Toy the early ones you couldn't see them because they were like match, boxes were either. End they had a little, black little brown striker like a. Matchbox that's why they call them match and they are beautiful and the ones that were made In, england they made them beautiful and they were just something. Special and if you've got those, today especially if they're, box they sell for a very big, price very very very very big prices in some. Cases but the ones that they made as see you.

Speaker 3

Later one of the things we spoke about briefly on the program yesterday towards the end of the program yesterday was the lane way culture around The Great, cities particularly In, melbourne but certainly there would have been similar laneway culture

In adelaide And. Perth and how important that lane way culture was those stones and the way that laneway and what was delivered and what sports would have been played in those laneways behind, homes particularly around inner City, adelaide in the City, melbourne inner City.

Speaker 2

Perth, yeah cricket in. Particular, yeah they were the thing for the laneways and the, kids you, know and you'll often see, it especially in kind of the inner suburbs where there wasn't two was no parks or anything like, that so they played down the lanes and it was it and a bit of footy as, well and that Was, yeah it was something you don't these days of. Course,

KIDS i CAN'T i can't. Go it can't get. Dirty you, know you've got to stay in and you, know look at you just what you, know we look at your little, phone do that just be just be a nice clean. Person we've we've lost all of that we've lost getting out and getting having a bit of dirt under your fingernails and having a bit of. Fun that's all.

Speaker 3

Changed AND i sugg yes THAT i was in bast of the little Cafe saturday morning with a couple of people and we're sitting there and watching the other tables around. Us of the other eight, tables with six or eight tables around, us a couple's, there all just sitting, there not, talking watching their.

Speaker 2

Phones, yep. Yep in, fact you wouldn't believe. It we were talking about it this. Morning we went to a little, place a little local and the three tables around, us we're not. Talking they were just looking at their, phones both of, them like two people together in the just in the on their, phones not even talking to each.

Speaker 3

Other rick mill name tells the. Collectibles What's rick looking? For we'll find out straight after, This. Dannie we've got about thirty seconds For Rick. Millan what do you got for?

Speaker 6

Us?

Speaker 8

Yeah rickie just mentioned about advertising. Things i've GOT i am coming to dug out the other. Day so it's from the. Eighties it's a standy which they used in The funglasses, shop which obviously advertised for goggle fung glasses that what's an eagle wore In termato?

Speaker 2

Movie so it's a big pair of, sunglasses is?

Speaker 6

It, no so it's like a cardboard.

Speaker 8

Stand he's, okay, Ye varney as as A terminato were in the?

Speaker 7

Glasses and what how long?

Speaker 2

Ago what movie came?

Speaker 8

Out in the eighty?

Speaker 2

Eight, okay in which case it's going to be worth the one hundred hundred and fifty.

Speaker 3

Dollars well do you think you? Were if you're looking For rick, Here, ricky you can do. That zero four one eight double three after ten o'clock the, Morning zero four one a double three nine one zero. Three we've run out of time where? Coomes so?

Speaker 2

Sorry we have we have we'll do our want to on to next. Week our things we look abo next.

Speaker 3

Week, yeah we'll do that, alright, mate have a great week and we'll talk to you next. Week zero four one a double three nine one zero three At Rick milne after ten

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