Tacky memorabilia

I admit that I do rather like this one. But I’m not generally a bear fan

And a mourning armband !!!

Royal Purple
I thought it was mourning purple.

It's gruesome , in my opinion anyway.

Queue!

I only just realised it was a Stieff bear.
I suppose they’d want a commemorative bear as a collector’s item. So maybe not tacky as I initially thought it was a random cuddly toy (albeit expensive). Hence the Royal Purple etc. I’d hate one but it will sell.

That is shocking Fleurpepper! I would have thought those bracelets held special meaning for those who stood in the que to show their respects for the Queen.

I'm obviously a very tacky person as see nothing wrong with it!

I think it's the purple eyes Riverwalk - scary!

tickingbird

I heard on some news this morning g that Corgis are now selling for £6000. What is wrong with people?

Is that for a real one or the stuffed variety?

I have a set of Chance Silver Jubilee dishes given to me in 1977, still in their boxes. Now have to decide who'll inherit them ?

£7.90 each at the moment but who knows?

ExDancer

To me it seems somewhat insulting, and I don't know why.

Same here, but I know why.

As for the access to queue bracelets being sold on e-bay and other sites for 1000s, it is so tacky and plain right disgusting, and so disrespectful.

FannyCornforth

*Kalu*, yes, they’ve really gone down the pan.

They have gone down in my estimation now. A Steiff Teddy has always been the gift from DH and I to any newborns in the family. Don’t know if they will hold the same cachet as they once did.

FannyCornforth

I bought this three weeks ago from eBay. Just before HM’s death.
It’s a Stratton Wedgewood Compact celebrating the Silver Jubilee.
It cost the princely (queenly?) sum of £8.40

Fabulous and tasteful. The teddy is just awful and not even a warm, fluffy brown teddy colour! What has a teddy got to do with the Queen or Freddie? And what would you do with it, just let it sit there and take up space? So many unanswered questions which don't matter at all unless you have the need to buy this rubbish.

Kalu, yes, they’ve really gone down the pan.

FannyCornforth

Here’s Freddie

I stand corrected!

I bought this three weeks ago from eBay. Just before HM’s death.
It’s a Stratton Wedgewood Compact celebrating the Silver Jubilee.
It cost the princely (queenly?) sum of £8.40

One of my grandparents dogs was a corgi, in the 50s, named Taffy by my grandfather. He was a loveable little thing I spent many happy times with.

Here are my glorious Jubilee Mice

Here’s Freddie

Grandma70s

I’m very surprised that Steiff would sell something so tasteless.

Very surprised at Steiff! They have never been known to sell anything tacky and this must be a first for them. Disappointing.

tickingbird

I heard on some news this morning g that Corgis are now selling for £6000. What is wrong with people?

Corgis have been an ‘it dog’ for a while now, starting in the States, so I reckon that they were previously in high demand.
This is going to send the prices through the roof.
My late uncle always had corgis, and they aren’t an easy breed

I'm obviously a very tacky person as see nothing wrong with it!

I wouldn't buy one but expect it will be given as a commemorative gift to newborns this year.

No more tacky than a cup & saucer or mug.

It’s very in your face over the top, gaudy and overdone.
Whoever designed it isn’t very good at it.
It would have been very easy to create something subtle, touching and sweetly sentimental.

Not Paddington though.
I don’t like the way that a movie franchise has recently become so entwined with HM.
I think that’s a bit tasteless too now.

I’ve got lots of little bits and pieces of Queen Elizabeth memorabilia, including my Jubilee Mice.
I’ll post some photos

I recently saw a Freddie Mercury Steiff bear advertised in the paper.
I must admit that it really made me laugh

I heard on some news this morning g that Corgis are now selling for £6000. What is wrong with people?

I’m very surprised that Steiff would sell something so tasteless.

I garden for a lady who collects teddy’s. I bet she’s ordered one.
I know that she paid over £1,000 for a rare one.

I start shopping for Christmas in September boring to some I know! I was looking at tree ornaments on line this is before the Queen was ill and died.
I picked a little corgi with a crown on little did I know the queen would die two weeks later. It is only small but a nice piece of memorabilia well it is to me anyway.