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Very Rare 1950s Enid Blyton Queen Bee PDSA Pennant Letter "Signed" Photo Charity
A very rare collection of 1950s and 1960s 'Busy Bee' memorabilia from the Ma Phil hive in Essex formed in 1953 and acquiring 5 busy Bee gold awards, two glorious pennants and a signed photograph from queen bee herself Enid Blyton. I haven't opened the photograph but it would be my guess that this is a 1950s print of her signature.
Everything is in fabulous condition with a little wear and tear to one of the stars, but the paperwork is all legible and the pennants are perfectly usable.
This would be a wonderful item for a museum or beekeeping group or for anyone collecting PDSA or Enid Blyton memorabilia.
The PDSA Busy Bees office (44 Palace Road, Bromley, Kent) wasn't much more than 10 miles from where I now live! A very interesting collection indeed, though I'm afraid I'm not in the running for it at that price...
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
That Quink ink in the top left of the picture brings back memories of my schooldays when we had to write with an ink pen.
The school provided ink pens, often with duff nibs, or you could bring your own ink pen and ink into school.
Don't know if you're quite old enough to remember those days Anita?
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I'm not, needless to say, but I do fondly remember my dad teaching me to write with a nib pen dipped in orange juice to make invisible ink like Fatty does in The Mystery of the Secret Room!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I used to enjoy doing all the fancy lettering in calligraphy with the broad nibs and Indian Ink. I still have a calligraphy set somewhere. We were taught that in about the second year in primary school.
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pete9012S wrote:That Quink ink in the top left of the picture brings back memories of my schooldays when we had to write with an ink pen.
The school provided ink pens, often with duff nibs, or you could bring your own ink pen and ink into school.
Don't know if you're quite old enough to remember those days Anita?
We used cartridge pens in 1977 when I made the switch from pencil to ink.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I've got a bottle of Quink ink like that in my front room. I remember being impatient in primary school because I was one of the last ones allowed to progress to a fountain pen from a pencil, your writing had to be good to move on from a pencil and mine was awful! The odd thing was, I could write neatly with a fountain pen! Some of the boys used to delight in blotting up someone's exercise book or paper by giving the pen a sudden shake .
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I used to hate writing with a fountain/cartridge pen at school because I'm left handed and not only did I smudge most of my work but I went home every night with my shirt cuff covered in ink, much to my mother's despair.
John, that's bringing back memories of our teacher telling us to 'blot our work' when we had finished the lesson.
Those days with ink pens and the blackboard seem so long ago...
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IceMaiden wrote:I've got a bottle of Quink ink like that in my front room.
Wow!
I liked the exercise books that had lines for good handwriting guide in them, as my handwriting was so illegibubble!
Oh yes! Ours had two lots of lines - one to fit capital letters between and one to fit smaller ones. You had to stay perfectly between these lines, writing row after row of each letter and for every mistake or untidy one you had to do an extra row. I filled about five of these books .
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I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind
Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
And A̶n̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶f̶a̶s̶h̶i̶o̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶
A very interesting collection indeed, though I'm afraid I'm not in the running for it at that price...
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