Vintage price sticker Info UK Sold

[poncho]

anyone got any info on this 1980s shop 'jennings'

im thinking with a basic yellow price sticker a local newsagents maybe???

 

[Simply Sci-fi]

The Jennings sticker is probably from a toy shop – perhaps the Jennings toy and model shop in Enfield that used to stock a lot of old Palitoy Star Wars and closed a couple of years ago. There was an unconnected Jennings toy shop in Southampton that has long been closed.

There's a memory of a Jennings toy shop that used the same sticker at;
http://bustatoons.blogspot.co.uk/2010_11_01_archive.html

Old price labels are like gold dust, considering that by far the majority were peeled off when the toys were given as gifts. A real piece of history.

Craig.

 

[poncho]

im amazed that someone knew..... how did you know that?
cheers craig

 

[Simply Sci-fi]

I used to source a lot of my stuff at Jennings as I lived fairly close to Enfield. There were similar shops elsewhere that gradually closed one by one.

Unfortunately Jennings in Enfield didn't have any Star Wars much beyond the late eighties. I think the guy in the link speaking about Masters of the Universe must be talking about the same shop, as I too picked up a shed load of those toys too from Jennings in the 90's for my sci-fi shop in Croydon. Jennings also had a lot of Transformers that I picked up too.

If I'd known that it would turn out that nearly every old toy would have a collecting base, I would have bought a lot more at the time. There was Starcom and Ghostbusters stock gathering dust. I picked up most of my boxed Micronauts toys from a couple of toy shop store room finds. Lucky me at the time that nobody else was hunting for it.

Sadly the days of scavenging old stock at independent toy stores is pretty much over.

Craig.

 

[poncho]

I think the guy in the link speaking about Masters of the Universe must be talking about the same shop

hey craig
after some digging around the guy in the link ive found is a graphic artist of sorts and found he lives and is from enfield london and says he bought the piece and loads more from his local toy shop jennings in enfield when he was a kid. this store was an independant toy and model shop so they you go so chufffed to find where my rees yees came from

cheers for the help craig

 

[Simply Sci-fi]

Glad to be of help.

It's great to have confirmation that Jennings in Enfield was the source of your Ree Yees.

It's a shame that I didn't know Jennings in its Star Wars heyday, with it being well beyond my childhood collecting orbit. Back then I just travelled to Romford and surrounding towns.

Those old independent toy shops had a genuine magic about them.

Craig.

 

[chipsteak]

Fantastic.

I've got a minor fetish for John Menzies and Lewis's stickers. They devoted swathes of floorspace to SW in early 80s Glasgow.

 

[Simply Sci-fi]

Sounds like Star Wars toy heaven. There were three major toy stalls in the Rumford Shopping Halls in Romford Market plus the shop Kiddie City, which specialised in acquiring surplus stock. The only representative from a toy shop chain was a tiny Zodiac, which ended up with a whole wall of unsold Ree-Yees figures (That's a co-incidence since the purchase of a Ree-Yees figure started this thread!).
There wasn't a toy shop in Romford which dedicated a huge amount of space to Star Wars though.

It would be great to start an old price sticker thread (unless there is one somewhere?). It would be interesting (?) to find the most exorbitant prices being charged in the classic years and at the end, the cheapest.

I personally don't mind old price stickers but I know others aren't so keen. One worry I have over a few of my MOCs, is that they have an original price label which might reduce their value.

Craig.

 

[chipsteak]

I like stickers if they are UK ones - it's daft stuff like that that appeals to my vintage fixation.

The cheapest ones in my collection tend to be the likes of knocked-down Tri-Logos reduced to 49p circa 1986.