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John Bull Printing outfit type things...do they exist ?

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 14:50

I always had one of these as a child and loved them - the black watery spongy inkpad and trying to set the rubber type with tweezers. Can anyone recommend something similar available these days ?

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 15:54

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zippitippitoes · 12/07/2008 15:56

i think i have sonmething like that but i bought it about 1993 for art work

are you sure your memory isnt playing tricks...they are not for the fainthearted are they

the most frustrating thing on earth

did you have a britains floral garden too

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 16:00

no I didn't - what was that ? I had plasticraft kit too !

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zippitippitoes · 12/07/2008 16:03

oh flowerbeds with holes in into which you placed individual flowers with a special tool, made greenhouses from individual plastic elements and trees onto which you attached each leaf

they knew how to keepo kids busy

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 16:03

oh I'd've liked one !

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JackieNo · 12/07/2008 16:04

NOt quite the same, but alphabet stamps?

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 16:05

thanks JackieNo, but not quite what I was thinking of !

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Katisha · 12/07/2008 16:07

I had one of those! Took bloomin' ages to set up a sentence and print it!
Think kids all do PowerPoint presentations instead these days.

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zippitippitoes · 12/07/2008 16:07

ebay

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JackieNo · 12/07/2008 16:07

No, I know. I had the John Bull one too.

Olive's garden sounds like the britain's floral garden thing (I know you're not really after that though).

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 16:09

thanks zippi - silly me, I was thinking vaguely of ebay too

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JackieNo · 12/07/2008 16:11

I was just about to suggest ebay too - had found one on there.

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cranmorefifi · 12/07/2008 17:00

I think I saw one at Cox & Cox? www.coxandcox.co.uk/

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JackieNo · 12/07/2008 18:01

Well spotted Cranmorefifi - here. Out of stock till 'mid July' though, but we're pretty much there, aren't we.

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 22:25

thank you - perfect, expensive but perfect !!

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ingles2 · 12/07/2008 22:35

I bought thid one from Cox and cox. Not as nice as you have to print individually but not as expensive either

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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/07/2008 22:41

have bookmarked both - many thanks

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