The lottery of life

Our shop used to be the village lottery/betting dealer right to the closing of the business. So..of course we had to start looking for lottery/betting dealer (Veikkaus in Finnish) stuff. I would love to get lottery slips from the 50's/60's but I guess nobody has saved these as the dealers got new ones every year. Well, I am happy enough with the adverts we have found.

Smoking is good for you (or for your brand)

Advertising was so much easier when almost everyone smoked. Now people don't even use pens anymore, so what's left to print your logo on?

Just what I need

It is a hot day for heavy gardening. If it were the 60's I could take a sip of Sinalco and get on with shoveling refreshed.

Chocolate and soap

I just love old ads. These are the newest additions to our shop museum collection. The left one is an advertisment for Fazer sweets and the right one advertises soap. We have lux soap bars in the museum so this ad will be a nice touch.

Wall art

We bought quite a bunch of 50's ads that were glued on dark paperboards. A few of them we hang on the living room wall (photo below), the others are in the shop museum.

Would you?

Once again, you have to admire people in the 50's. It is a miracle that they didn't all die young. This ad promotes a poison (Sumusol) that kills all the flies for the whole summer...and the little boy Heikki and his dog Rekku sleep peacefully without the flies troubling them. I would think twice before spraying poison in my child's bedroom...

My favourite

We found this old hard rye bread advertisement in tori.fi. Mint condition is an understatement, the advert is in perfect condition. I just happen to love Ylhäisten näkkileipä hard bread so it was great to find an old advert. The bread is real hard and the best version has a lot of caraway in it.

Accepting cookies?

You very seldom find (cheap) shop adverts nowadays but last weekend we got lucky. We found this old Hanko cookie (Hangon keksi is the company name in Finnish) advert in tori.fi and fetched it from Kotka. It will look great on the shop wall.

Have a sip of Apsi

The last weekend was a good one for finds at flea markets. This one we bought from tori.fi and had to drive to Kotka in a terrible icy snowfall. Sinebrychoff made the non carbonated lemonade in 60's. The metal advert cost a little more than we are usually prepared to pay, but I think it was still worth the price (and ride) as I have never seen one like it.

It's a crime

Did the Lone Ranger really advertise bread? Well, in the 50's he did. Luckily for us as this enamel board from 1952 is truly neat. We found it today at Villähteen kylähullu (link), a vintage store in Nastola.

Jo-jo ice cream

We found this ice cream ad at our attic. Never heard of the brand before so I surfed the net and found out that Ingman started to sell these from 1936. The ad must be newer. Would be nice to know its age.