Showing posts with label Collectibles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Collectibles. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Cigarettes, booze & Vespa?


I just got this jewel. An old ashtray in the form of a Firestone tire where the tray has beautiful drawing of a couple on a Vespa. From the beginning of the 60's? No faro basso, the headlamp is on the handle bar.
Pretty cool, huh?

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Vespa & Lambretta collectibles


Yesterday I found a copy of the Swedish cartoon magazine "Vilda Västern" (Wild West) from the mid-fifties.
Strangely enough they had a collectors series of motorcycles available on the Swedish market at the time. On every backside of the tiny magazine there was either a motorcycle or a scooter. Of course I looked for a Vespa or a Lambretta and came up with this Lambretta 125 F below. Just a black and white picture and some specifications like "123 cc, 4 hp and top speed 70 km/h".
The glass is from the classic Italian beverage maker Cinzano. It's from 2007 and obviously a homage to the vintage Vespa. Hrm, isn't there a bottle somewhere...

The back of a Swedish cartoon magazine from the fifties.