This pair was going to be in a post called
'Cats and Bears', well; the post would probably have been called something
else, but the folder was C&B as they all came together in a 50p-each type
charity shop purchase. But then it turned out the cats were more interesting,
so these two vinyl lumps were cast aside, while I sought something to make a 'T is
for Two . . . ' post!
The sculpting is slightly different on them
but the overall style is so similar they have to be from the same source and -
presumably - that will be one of these hideously expensive, seemingly endless
series of designer-tat sets you see in high-street jewellers - the most honest
things ever said about them having been uttered by Gerald Ratner!
Also they were probably the smaller lower
priced, entry-level pieces in a range with larger examples and great lumps of
PU 'family groups', mothers with cubs and the like? Yet vey affordable years
later in a charity shop! Not 100% sure they're not supposed to be an attempt at
realistic bears, but the foot-pads earned them a place in the 'teddies' box.
This catalogue shot was the other half of
the T-is-for-two post, and shows a few common-enough London tourist keepsakes,
probably carried by other 'names' but wholesaled through the recently folded
MGL.
Similar to the soft PVC household cavalry
and similar policeman we've seen here at Small Scale World in the past, but
poured resin, and the key-ring artwork seems to be mocked-up Photoshop type stuff, but I'm sure they
were made and distributed, and; by more than just Marshall's!
Another charity shop purchase and we were
on a roll - for a bear post!
These two were a further charity shop
purchase a few weeks after the previous lot, slightly bigger and from another
series of over-priced baubles. Different artists/designers I suspect, but the
same brand?
The one on the right came in the other day,
and is shot here to size-up against the other pair.
I think he's a Clinton's Cards thing?* I'm pretty sure I've seen stationary and greeting-cards
with these patchwork/patched-up bears, slowly easing-out the execrable Love Is... stuff over the last decade or
so, even Snoopy-licensed stuff isn't
as common as it was!
*Google says - Me to You bears . . . there's hundreds of 'em!
Finally - I can't remember where this one
came from, the shots were taken on the 19th May, so it could have been in the
PW Show Plunder (Peter, Brian, Trevor or purchase), several large mixed lots I
got from charity shops around that time, or even Jim's box? If it was you -
thanks!
It's similar to the little blow-moulded
novelty bears we've also seen here before, usually flocked, but this one is a
solid-moulded, polyethylene lump and I don't know if it should be flocked. It
is - equally - similar to the 'baby shower' bear we saw here too, so may be
something like that, in which case the flock is ruled-out by the Pink &
Blue rule!
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