Golden Wonder keyring

The final product keyring comes with a wonderful quality of sound. The tiny yellow plastic crisps rattle just the same today as they did 40 years ago. They come from a time before our supermarket shelves were so laden with crisps, and, as elsewhere on contintental europe they were called 'chips'. Funny isn't it how Paprika flavour has still not really become a favourite in the UK. The tactile quality of this item marks it as a real gem.

The second item, a horse head keyring is one with least interest for me. I have never been interested in 'shiny' things, and there is a lightness and cheapness about this ring that is a little unpleasant. However it has served it's time in the bag, so deserves a little exposure to the world for that alone.

Who is she?

Maybe someone could tell me who this lady is?

Product keyrings

Part of the interest in collections is the comparisons between objects within them. The notion of selecting one special part of a collection is meaningless, as the range of the objects included is critical to the whole. Here are some of the products included in the Dutch keyring collection, though I'm very disappointed that the small blue plastic toilet rolls have deteriorated too much to be of any visual worth!

Dutch keyrings

As children we would go shopping at the Etos supermarket in Eindhoven with our grandfather. It was far more fun than shopping at home, as not only did they have sweets behind the counter for children, but products had free keyrings attached to entice the buyer to chose one product over another. Back home in Dewsbury these were kept on a metal coat hanger in the wardrobe for many years before being transferred to a plastic bag and consigned to the attic, back of the drawer, shed. Scott Tracy (I think I'm right here) was such a trophy, probably from around 1970.