A couple of rather striking 'bag ladies'.

A single photographic Kodak slide found its way into the Marmaland collection.

The image contained is certainly marmalade related - and also a tad on the saucy side.

Two naked, oiled-up young ladies covering their bits with some Golden Shred bags.

It looks like a fairly professional promo shot to me, possibly dates to the late 70's.

Anyone who has any info about this photo (is one of the models your Mum?) please email me.

Buying (and sometimes not buying) marmalade adverts.

Marmalade related print adverts from period publications excite me - far more than they should.

I am not a big one for the car boot sales, but if I do find myself in a field surrounded by trestle tables and bargain hunters I keep an eye out for people selling their old magazine collections.

There are a fair number of people making a few quid out of breaking up old publications and selling the ads on eBay. Tobacco, vintage fashion and transport always do pretty well.

These people are usually very organised and sell lots of ads for about £2 each - I am 'all for it', and known by some of them as either a 'recorder' of marmalade history (or the weird bloke, what collects the marmalade ads).

Usually I only want to part with a couple of pounds for an advert including its delivery, but I have been know to stretch the budget for a particularly rare, striking or early image.

When this National Steam Car Company - coke-fired lorry with a James Keiller livery appeared this week with a £3.90 start it would be fair to say it turned my head.

But it very quickly went past what I was prepared to pay and finished up costing the winning bidder £38.70.

So I did what I often do when that happens - I cursed the b*stard that bought it, stole a fairly low resolution image and just made do with that instead.

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