Celluloid Charm: Rare Dragon

Small but fierce!!

Celluloid Charms: Ring of Charms

What an exciting thing to find....if you're a charm collector I know the feeling you're having looking at the beautiful chunk of delicious tidbits! Happy me!

Celluloid Charms: Popeye!!

One can never have too many Popeye charms....well, unless it's the same old same old basic one that's seen 100 times a day as the top right! Love them!

Celluloid Charm: Musical Bunny

One of my favs and rightly so :)

Celluloid Charm: Betty Boop Googley Eyed Rare

LOVE the googly eyed charms and this Betty Boop is no exception!!

Celluloid Charm: Bunny Green Jeans

Gotta love him!

Celluloid Charms: RARE Catsn

I didn't take this photo, the charm on the far left is not mine but the other two are :). The charm in the center is very rare, I've only been collecting for 3 yrs and I've never seen another....oh man, I LOVE CELLULOID CHARMS....YUM!!

YES, I am delighted to have them in my collection...top drawer, baby!

Celluloid Puffy Charms: Snow White & Seven Dwarfs

This necklace is not mine, it belongs to Jennifer....I had to post a photo because it's rare to find the whole set intact!! WONDERFUL!!

Celluloid Charms: Shirley Temple Uncommon

The tinist inth of a fraction....down to the last detail. Love the circle dots on the dresses, indicative of the charm designers of the day. The petticoats, socks, and gold hi-lights all done so well!! LOVE these girls!

Celluloid Charms: RARE Fans

I just LOVE these charms!!! Such great details, they are most certainly little pieces of art :)

Celluloid Charm: RARE Asian On Hobby Horse

I LOVE THIS CHARM!! This beauty is 1 1/4" and is perfect in every way!! A nice companion to the blue one :)

Celluloid Charm: Puppy Standing

I've wanted this one for years, finally HE'S MINE!!!!!

Celluloid Charms: Nekko Cats

The Significance of the Raised Paw The cat charm on the left is the more rare of the two....glad to have it for my collection!!

There’s actually a meaning behind which paw the cat is holding up. If it's the left paw, this is supposed to attract customers. If the right paw is raised, this invites good fortune and money. They both sound pretty good to me, which is why sometimes you can find a Fortune Cat with both of its paws in the air. Two paws up can also represent protection.

Gumball Charm: Sledding

The little guy in the white snowsuit is one of my two favorite charms from my childhood.....the acutual one in fact! When I saw they were available in other colors....well....here they are! I need a red one!

Celluloid Charm: Asian Messenger Running

Ya gotta love it!

Celluloid Charm: Pink Cupid

This charm was so hard to take a good photo of. The solid colors are the most difficult for me, but look how fab this is!!!

:Celluloid Charm: Kobe Totem Pole

LOVE the detail, particularly the bottom section with the doll hug!!

Going away

I'll be out of town for the next few days, I'm going on a celluloid charm hunt! Cross your fingers for me that I find something wonderful to share with you!!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Puffy Style Nun

Not the best shot but here's another Nun chasrm, love her!!!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Puffy Style Nun

I LOVE HER!! You don't see many of these little beauties around!!

Celluloid Charm: Native Riding Ostrich RARE

Here's one you don't see very often! A native riding an ostrich you've seen, but not this one....LOVE the glasses and the little mustache!! This beauty resides in my top drawer of favorites ~♥~

Celluloid Charm: Asian Face

Oh ya, I love this charm!! I just now opened the drawer, pulled her out and admired her!! She's 1" square and at the back her hair is nicely carved! Top drawer she is!!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Church Building

There's something about building charms that I find very appealing and this one is my favorite, right down to the little cross.

Celluloid Charm: Little Bo Peep RARE

I just can't seem to get the charms to line up straight some days :)

Celluloid Charm: Girl With Basket Rare

A large charm with wonderful details!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Standing Elephant With Hat

Another elephant dressed to the nines, and this one in a tux, vest and top hat!! How debonair can one elephant be?!?!?!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Betty Boop

Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations such as the Rotoscope

Born to a Jewish family in Kraków,[6] then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer. His family emigrated to the USA in 1887 and settled in New York City, where he attended public school; he spent his formative years in Brownsville and Brooklyn. He attended Evening High School, received commercial art training at Cooper Union, and also attended The Mechanics and Tradesman's School. While still in his teens, he worked for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as an errand boy, and eventually became a cartoonist. It was during this period he met newspaper cartoonist and early animator, John Randolph Bray. He married his childhood sweetheart, Ethel (Essie) Gold on December 25, 1905. Shortly afterward he accepted an illustrator's job for a catalog company in Boston. He returned to New York as Art Editor for Popular Science magazine around 1912; he also wrote books, including one called Noah's Shoes

WOW!! The charm is swwweeeet!!

Celluloid Charm: Asian Idol

I see these charms around quite often. There are seven lucky gods in the asian tradition, each has a traditional attribute:
1.Hotei, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health
2.Jurōjin, god of long life
3.Fukurokuju, god of happiness, wealth and longevity
4.Bishamonten, god of warriors
5.Benzaiten (Benten-sama), goddess of knowledge, art and beauty, especially music
6.Daikokuten (Daikoku), god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops
7.Ebisu, god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream

Well there you have it....all I know is I'm happy to have a set of my own...finally :) ,

Celluloid Charm: RARE Cat Wearing Bonnet

And I love her so

Celluloid Charm: Tennis Player Rare

Celluloid Charm: RARE RARE RARE Boy With Ostrich

Celluloid Charm: RARE Betty Boop

Celluloid Charm: Rare Little Jack Horner

Sometime you need a second one just cause they have different colored clothing on :)

Celluloid Charm: RARE!!

This charm leaves me almost speechless...it is currently in my top ten favorites!! I LOVE IT!! Details details details!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Lady With String Instrument

Celluloid Charm: Dutch Couple Rare

This is such a charming charm!! I LOVE it, I've not seen it before as I'm quite new to the charm collecting world! Nice to add it to my Popeye & Olive Oyl charm(see June 23)...so similar!

Oooooo collecting is sooo fun!!

Celluloid Charm: Chicken and Chicks

It took me quite awhile to get this one!

Celluloid Charm: Rare Boy With Green Shorts

Celluloid Charms: Anchors

Celluloid Charm: Asian Lucky God Idol

Celluloid Charm: Rare Standing Elephant With Hat

Put a hat on any charm and it adds charm. love it!!

I was missing as some of you may have noticed. I spent the time with my family and decided I'd leave my postings for when I returned, which was today!!