{"id":10555,"date":"2020-10-08T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:03","slug":"giraffe-bolo-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/giraffe-bolo-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffe Bolo Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/summer85_24\/summer8524009.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From reader Gary Pinkerton we have a rare look at the Summer 1985 (Africa issue) Giraffe Bolo Tie. A bronze giraffe on a suede lace string with copper beads, this was issued in a plastic bag with a printed card inside. Amazingly, Gary kept the whole thing, which we are very grateful to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the catalogue: &#8220;Frankly, we&#8217;d find the Serengeti a bit plain without the gentle giraffe, loping through life with head in the clouds, reaching for pie-in-they-sky and munching mimosa. So we stuck out our own necks and cast him in bronze for a bolo tie.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo1-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo2-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo3-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/giraffebolo4-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From reader Gary Pinkerton we have a rare look at the Summer 1985 (Africa issue) Giraffe Bolo Tie. A bronze giraffe on a suede lace string with copper beads, this was issued in a plastic bag with a printed card inside. Amazingly, Gary kept the whole thing, which we are very grateful to see. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1508,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}