The Uncle Oojah Collection

Each row in the following table corresponds to an item pictured in this pdf, Click here to see the images. This represents the sum total of all Oojah items currently in my possession.

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The Oojah Collection

Slide No.	Description
1	Birthday Wishes Postcard ‘The Oojah Sketch’ from early 1920s
2	2 celluloid Daily Sketch Birthday Club Member badges
3	Many Happy Returns Large Postcard 1928
4	Many Happy Returns Large Postcard 1928
5	2 Daily Sketch Birthday Club Members Cards, first is a Donjeroos Card 1927 and second is 1928
6	First Ever Appearance of Flip Flap (The Great Oojah) in the Daily Sketch 18 Feb 1919. Whole Newspaper as well as the Oojah feature, with Cert of Authenticity and Gift Box. (NB British Library has the first two years of Oojah features in the Daily Sketch original newspapers). See Slide 71 for Colour P{late of same Thomas Maybank illustration, in The Once Upon a Time Children’s Annual 1920
7	Daily Sketch Sat 7 Apr 1923 including full copy of The Oojah Sketch supplement
8	Daily Sketch 4 April 1923 including Oojah Feature
9	Daily Sketch 9 April 1923 including Oojah Feature
10	Daily Sketch 27 Mar 1923 including Oojah Feature
11	Daily Sketch 14 Mar 1923 including Oojah Feature
12	Daily Sketch 6 April 1923 including Oojah Feature
13	Daily Sketch 13 Mar 1923 including Oojah Feature
14	Daily Sketch Saturday 14 April 1923 including the full Oojah Sketch supplement
15	John Player’s Cigarette Card of racehorse called Oojah, formerly owned by Sir E Hulton, owner of the Daily Sketch
16	Daily Sketch 17 January 1923 including Oojah (Flip Flap) Feature
17	Daily Sketch 29 Jan 1936 including Oojah Feature
18	Daily Sketch 29 Nov 1934 including Oojah Feature – Jerrywangle’s Fire Brigade
19	Daily Sketch 7 May 1937 including Oojah Feature – Up for The Jubilee
20	Daily Sketch 28n Feb 1922 including Oojah Feature
21	Daily Sketch 1 Mar 1922 including Oojah Feature
22	Daily Sketch 4 March 1922 including Oojah Feature including full Oojah Sketch Saturday supplement
23	More of the above Daily Sketch 4 March 1922 including Oojah Feature including full Oojah Sketch Saturday supplement
24	Daily Sketch 21 Nov 1925 including Oojah Feature including full Oojah Sketch Saturday supplement
25	Daily Sketch 2 Mar 1922 including Oojah Feature
26	Daily Sketch 3 Mar 1922 including Oojah Feature
27	Daily Sketch Certificate of Merit Painting Competition 1920s
28 -33	Oojah House The Story of Flip Flap’s Little Mansion, one-off booklet with several colour plates by Thomas Maybank. Only ever seen one copy on the internet and I own it now. Circa 1921.
34 – 36	2 copies of The Oojah Annual, published 1922 as the 1923 Annual. This is the first ever Oojah Annual. The slightly more worn one has one of the colour plates missing. Otherwise in good order.
37 – 39	One copy of The Oojah Annual published 1923 for 1924.
40 – 41	2 copies of The Oojah Annual, published 1924 as the 1925 Annual. One copy has an intact dust jacket with the price of 5 shillings printed in the corner. Both copies intact with all colour plates.
42 – 44	One copy of The Oojah Annual published 1925 for 1926. Beautiful colour plates all intact.
45 – 47	2 copies of Uncle Oojah/s Treasure Trunk, published 1926 as the 1927 annual. One copy a bit brighter and cleaner than the other. All intact.
48	1 copy of Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1927 for 1928. From this point until the 1937 annual, the annuals were made from lower quality thick pulp paper and tend to be in less good condition than the earlier 1920s annuals. Some are better than others.
49	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1928 for 1929
50	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1929 for 1930
51	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1930 for 1931
52	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1931 for 1932
53	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1932 for 1933
54	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1933 for 1934
55	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Big Annual published 1934 for 1935
56	1 copy The Oojah Annual published 1935 for 1936
57 – 58	2 copies The Oojah Annual 1937 (published 1936)
59	1 copy The Oojah Annual 1938 (published 1937) with good dust jacket.
60	1 copy The Oojah Annual 1939 (published 1938) with Dust Jacket. According to adverts on other annuals this should have 4 colour plates but there is only one. Some images coloured in neatly.
61	1 copy The Oojah Annual 1940 (publ 1939). Colour plate is creased.
62	1 Copy Uncle Oojah’s Annual 1942 (publ 1941) Some images coloured in neatly.
63	1 copy The Oojah Annual 1947
64	1 Copy The Oojah Annual 1949
65	1 copy The Oojah Annual 1950
66	1 copy Uncle Oojah’s Annual 1951
67	1 copy each of The Jack and Jill Annual Book 1956 and 1958 featuring Oojah characters
68	The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book featuring an Oojah story.
69	1 copy The Silver Torch Series Uncle Oojah – Fifth Impression 1958
70 – 72	Once Upon a Time Children’s Annual 1920 featuring two full length Oojah stories including the original as commenced publishing in The Daily Sketch on 18 Feb 1919 with two Oojah related full page colour plates and many other Thomas Maybank Oojah illustrations in single colours plus many other non-Oojah features and colour plates.
73 – 74	Once Upon a Time Hulton’s Children’s Annual 1921 featuring one full length Oojah story. One Oojah related full page colour plates and many other Thomas Maybank Oojah illustrations in single colours plus many other non-Oojah features and colour plates. The Oojah story here has not been found anywhere else to my knowledge, except in original Daily Sketch newspapers from the early 1920s – Flip-Flap in Wangletown
75-76	The Joy Book Children’s Annual 1922 featuring one Oojah story and many Thomas Maybank Oojah illustrations in single colours plus l colour plates referring to non-Oojah themes and stories.
77 – 78	Flip-Flap The Great Oojah pocket sized volume published 1920 with several two-colour plates and several other one colour drawings by Thomas Maybank. This is the first ever Oojah story in full as printed daily in the Daily Sketch and as also appears in Once Upon a Time Annual 1920. No other copies seen on internet. Published in Toronto. Appears in daily episodes in Daily Sketch newspaper in 1919 or 1920.
79 -80	The Children of Funbeam – another pocket sized Oojah book published 1920 this time in New York with several two-colour plates and several other one colour drawings by Thomas Maybank.
81 – 82	The Pygmy Pirates – another pocket sized Oojah book again published 1920 in New York with several two-colour plates and several other one colour drawings by Thomas Maybank. Appears in daily episodes in Daily Sketch newspaper in 1919 or 1920.
83	Uncle Oojah’s Travels – The Ostrich Farm I think published in 1938 but must have been written much earlier as the illustrations are all by Thomas Maybank who died in 1929. There are references to several other titles in the ‘Uncle Oojah’s Travels’ series but I have only ever seen this one and the following one.
84	Uncle Oojah’s Travels – The Princess of Persia again published around 1938 but with Thomas Maybank illustrations from at least 9 years earlier.
85	Uncle Oojah’s  A B C Drawing and Painting Book. In immaculate condition, not colouring or marks of any kind. Apart from rusty staples, almost as new, possibly published 1946 with illustrations from H M Talintyre who took over when Thomas Maybank died in 1929. I paid £200 for this copy! See it on Antipodean Bookseller site – now in my possession. https://www.antipodean.com/pages/books/22006/childrens-kangaroo/uncle-oojahs-abc-drawing-and-painting-book?soldItem=true
86 – 93	A set of framed prints I had done from photos of my collection, for the Uncle Oojah 100th birthday  party we held. External frame sizes given on slides.     NB I am looking to sell the website including domain name as part of the overall package www.uncleoojah.com