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NHS

originally a national public service to provide healthcare for the whole population of the UK, now being increasingly privatised by…

VALUES: Total 38 | Total Times 8 | Average 5

Unicorn Hot Pants

Size 12 Adult Metallic Lycra Hot Pants with Rainbow and Unicorn design. Availiable at 'Skates' Cowick Street Exeter

VALUES: Total 34 | Total Times 4 | Average 9

Pink Children's Bicycle

A small Pink 'Sweetie' Bicycle complete with pink fluffy sadle cover, soft purple handle bar grips and shiny break cables.

VALUES: Total 27 | Total Times 3 | Average 9

Vic's Eggs

Six Extra Large Free Range Eggs in a recycled box.

VALUES: Total 27 | Total Times 3 | Average 9

Foam Blanket for the Etching Press

This is a foam blanket, bought from Langans on Fore Street. You can see the date when it was purchased…

VALUES: Total 21 | Total Times 4 | Average 5

Lego Lost at Sea Dragon

Not just any old Lego dragon, but a real beachcombed Lego Lost at Sea one! This little fellow was one…

VALUES: Total 21 | Total Times 4 | Average 5

Cocktail Silk Hat

Mini Button Beret with black and white silk flower and red ostrich quills

VALUES: Total 20 | Total Times 2 | Average 10

Gus Honeybun

Gus Honeybun was a very popular bunny who used to read out children's birthdays on TV and was a celebrity…

VALUES: Total 20 | Total Times 4 | Average 4

Child's Roller Boots

Size 11 hand painted one off Leather roller Boots.

VALUES: Total 18 | Total Times 2 | Average 9

hand made leather sandals/boots

I had these made by a friend according to my specifications about 20 years ago. The design is based on…

VALUES: Total 18 | Total Times 2 | Average 9

Bee house

A little wooden bee house. A house for bees, if you will.

VALUES: Total 18 | Total Times 3 | Average 6

Swimming with swans

Swimming in the Serpentine Lido - in natural water, with swans, in a central London location.

VALUES: Total 15 | Total Times 2 | Average 8

Gay's Creamery clotted cream ice-cream.

Dawlish's finest ice-cream establishment- clotted cream ice-cream deliciousness, in a gluten free cone with extra clotted cream on top to…

VALUES: Total 15 | Total Times 2 | Average 8

Suma-man

A smart brass lapel badge depicting Suma-man. He was a fun character created in the late 80s to add some…

VALUES: Total 15 | Total Times 7 | Average -1

Shell Button Necklaces

Handmade Paua Shell Buttons on cotton thread with a silver tag made in Australia exclusivly for Bunyip

VALUES: Total 10 | Total Times 2 | Average 3

Robin

It's a glass Robin from The House Of Marbles

VALUES: Total 10 | Total Times 2 | Average 3

Hutch

I am light and dark blue dinosaur. I am used both for show and to cuddle at night.

VALUES: Total 10 | Total Times 4 | Average 1

Tennis ball and coffee cup

A typical ball and coffee cup and saucer from Will to Win sports centre and cafe in Hyde Park

VALUES: Total 9 | Total Times 1 | Average 9

Marie

Five year old female black and white domestic short haired cat. Milk moustache, club foot, fluffy and often smells a…

VALUES: Total 8 | Total Times 1 | Average 8

Ayaka Tea Cup

Handpainted Tea Cup by Anthropologie

VALUES: Total 8 | Total Times 2 | Average 4

Betting shop receipt

It's a scan of a betting slip for a £2 bet on a horse called Reach High in the 1.55…

VALUES: Total 8 | Total Times 4 | Average 0

Prosthetic Hand

Full mobility fingers, single motor gearbox opertation.

VALUES: Total 8 | Total Times 3 | Average 3

"Curvy Barbie"

A Barbie Doll with normal proportions. Fuller hips, fuller thighs, normal sized waist - all sold with a notice dipicting…

VALUES: Total 8 | Total Times 4 | Average -1

Sports Direct Playing Cards

Shamelessly branded yet perfectly weighted Sports Direct Playing Cards. Large possibility of conceptually simple and beautiful games can be played…

VALUES: Total 7 | Total Times 2 | Average 1

Soap

A bar of soap originating in the Palestinian town of Nablus

VALUES: Total 7 | Total Times 3 | Average 0

Oak tree

A big old oak tree.

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 1 | Average 6

Nature

Trees, birds, bees. The natural world around us. Laced with intricate, individual meaning for all.

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 2 | Average 3

Biocouture Shoe

The BioCouture shoe speculates on an alternate future where, instead of relying on materials derived from unsustainable petrochemical industries or…

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 3 | Average 0

Basso Scout 1990's Italian steel bicycle frame, lugged

An Italian steel touring frame by Basso which I bought about 26 years ago to cycle all over Europe and…

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 2 | Average 3

The United Kingdom Census

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011 for details Further information at ons.gov.uk and search for Census

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 1 | Average 6

Boris

Boris, friend

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 4 | Average 1

Knited Kitty bottle cover

This item is a new, hand knitted cover for a bottle (eg wine or cordial bottle) It has been knitted…

VALUES: Total 6 | Total Times 1 | Average 6

Museum of Contemporary Commodities

MoCC is neither a building nor a permanent collection of stuff – it’s an invitation. To consider every shop, online…

VALUES: Total 5 | Total Times 1 | Average 5

Gay Pride Souvenir T-shirts

T-shirt from 1994 celebrating 25 years of the Gay Rights movement. Vest from 6th July 1996 Both printed with full…

VALUES: Total 5 | Total Times 1 | Average 5

Bacon roll, cup of tea, can of coca-cola

Refreshments sold by the Cabman's Shelter on Brompton Road South Kensington London

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 1 | Average 4

Willowed ostrich plume c. 1900

This is a willowed ostrich plume that dates from the great 'plume boom' (1880-1914), when the head, wings, bodies and…

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 3 | Average -3

Exeter Radio Exchange, which later became Rediffusion Company

It was a pioneering cable radio service formed by a Mr FD Newcombe. No outdoor ariel was required, it worked…

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 1 | Average 4

The Sardina Camera

A retro looking 35mm camera made by an Austrian company dedicated to experimental and 'off the cuff' photography. It shoots…

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 2 | Average 2

pair of leather objects with tassles

About 30 cm long. double loops cut out of each end with buckles the other end.

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 2 | Average 2

Dartmoor Pony Skin Rucksack

Practical, stylish, comfortable, free range pony skin rucksack raised organically on Devon’s wild moorland. An ideal accessory for the environmentally…

VALUES: Total 4 | Total Times 1 | Average 4

Pencil Sharpener collection

These objects are antique finish, die-cast miniatures with pencil sharpeners hidden underneath. They represent items from a bygone era. Their…

VALUES: Total 3 | Total Times 2 | Average 2

ALbum, Jezabels, The Brink

music purschased on itunes

VALUES: Total 3 | Total Times 1 | Average 3

red snips

Ingenious lever-action mechanism ensuring an extremely favourable lever ratio with very little friction. The cutting force is about 20 times…

VALUES: Total 3 | Total Times 3 | Average -0

galos de barcelos

A small cheap plastic rooster that my wife brought back from a holiday to Portugal that I was unable to…

VALUES: Total 3 | Total Times 1 | Average 3

An empty Bryant and May match box

Another collectable item related to smoking was an empty matchbox. This had the manufacturer’s logo on the front, for example,…

VALUES: Total 2 | Total Times 2 | Average 1

Volumetric glassware

I am submitting a standardised system of laboratory glassware used for measuring volume. What is being sold here is a…

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 3 | Average -3

polystyrene cup and bowl with plastic spoon

white patterned dish with a small cup and a plastic spoon

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 3 | Average -4

Broken music stand

A broken music stand, recently bought from a charity shop (Kidney Research on Sidwell St.) I only realised it was…

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 2 | Average 1

Small Model Cow

A small green decorative cow with orange and yellow butterflies. Given to me by a friend from Austria as part…

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 1 | Average 1

Harris tweed wallet

This wallet is covered in Harris tweed and features the Harris tweed mark of authenticity on the front. Inside it…

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 2 | Average 1

Hultafors craftsman's-knife

Mass produced Swedish utility knife with plastic handle, plastic sheath and carbon steel blade

VALUES: Total 1 | Total Times 4 | Average -1