People have certainly been known to build collections out of Babycham promotional items or Guinness or Coca-Cola items (all of which have their own sub-categories on eBay) – we’ve just gone a bit more obscure by collecting items relating to the long gone brand of shandy, Chandy.

Our collection started a few years ago with a single Chandy lion figurine. We then started looking for some Chandy branded glasses to go with it (in the same way a few branded Babycham glasses go well with our Babycham fawn figurine), but discovered that the one promotional item Chandy really didn’t go in for was glasses! Instead we found they did lots of other promotional items, which we started collecting with an increasing obsession that now takes in a daily eBay search for Chandy items and a desire to find out about as much as possible about the long forgotten shandy brand that they tried so many ideas to promote in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, only for it to disappear by the mid-1970s.