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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, February 9, 2019

C is for Cavemen - 3: Questions and Queries

I know we've had one question-time today, but here's another! Cavemen are a periphery interest, I certainly don't go looking for them, but they come in one way or another, and these are toward the small-scales, so were grabbed from mixed rummage trays or came in with mixed lots over many years.

Axeman; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; Cave Man; Cave Man Sobres; Cavemen; Game Playing Pieces; Hunters; Interactive Toys; Jecsan; Made in Portugual; Made in Spain; Monkey; Monkey Folk; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Paul Lamond; Pole Arm; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stone Age Toys; Swinging Toy; Unknown Cavemen; Unknown Toy Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Toy Figures;
I'm guessing these are Spanish (so the dismal-duo might have something to say about them!) or Portuguese, and Sobres of some kind, but they could be bubble-gum, ice-cream or cereal premiums?

The bases are reminiscent of early Pech or Jecsan, with the irregular clipped-corner rock-look, which is not that surprising when you realise they are near-copies of the larger Jecsan set! These are around 35mm, I don't know how many are in the full set but I know I like them; particularly the colours!

Axeman; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; Cave Man; Cave Man Sobres; Cavemen; Game Playing Pieces; Hunters; Interactive Toys; Jecsan; Made in Portugual; Made in Spain; Monkey; Monkey Folk; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Paul Lamond; Pole Arm; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stone Age Toys; Swinging Toy; Unknown Cavemen; Unknown Toy Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Toy Figures;
I would put money (not a lot, but some!) on these being Paul Lamond, if only for their similarities to the Pirate Ron Chiasson ID'd years ago. I have looked for them but only a cursory look and how many potential search-terms are there from Jungle through to Conan via dinosaurs!

Definitely a board-game though, all the boxes are ticked; standard colours, 40-odd millimetres, disc-base and a dense ethylene or polypropylene, anyone got the game?

Axeman; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; Cave Man; Cave Man Sobres; Cavemen; Game Playing Pieces; Hunters; Interactive Toys; Jecsan; Made in Portugual; Made in Spain; Monkey; Monkey Folk; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Paul Lamond; Pole Arm; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stone Age Toys; Swinging Toy; Unknown Cavemen; Unknown Toy Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Toy Figures;
This is a real mystery, I have two or three now (one may be lost between the coming together collections) so it can't be that rare, each came singly, with nothing that looked like it might 'belong', so first guess is it's from some play-set which was otherwise a big plastic fold'y-out'y thing for die-casts?

He/she or it may be a monkey or ape, a caveman or cave-child, a baby Wookie or a yeti in a helmet and seems to have been designed to clip-into something and swing about? Anyone recognise the creature? The plastic is similar to some Corgi stuff - the later, non-PVC stuff.

Axeman; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; Cave Man; Cave Man Sobres; Cavemen; Game Playing Pieces; Hunters; Interactive Toys; Jecsan; Made in Portugual; Made in Spain; Monkey; Monkey Folk; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Paul Lamond; Pole Arm; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stone Age Toys; Swinging Toy; Unknown Cavemen; Unknown Toy Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Toy Figures;
Whether he/she or it's an ape, an ape-man or a pilot in furry overalls, he/she or it was around long-enough, or was popular-enough (as a toy) to be pirated by someone - the plastic is similar in style/colour to Rado copies of Airfix 8th Army or Russian Infantry?

The other is more obviously a soldier or parachutist, seems to be of a similar design or from a similar toy and is in a hard polystyrene, over plated with a chromium-finish. There are small dinks in either hand in-line with the 'bar', so he probably clipped into some kind of swing, or frame that allowed for a 'swinging-action'?

2 comments:

Gog said...

These are also great! I love the sculpts but not so much the colours (and the fact that they are unpainted).

I cannot recognise any of them as a Spanish premium, at least not from 1986 on...

The four guys in the bright basic colours could definitely be from a board game. In that case it would also be hard to find from which one.

Cheers,
Juan

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Gog - I suspect 1960's for the Spanish figures? And yes, finding a baord game (even - or especially on boardgamegeek) whithout title AND maker is a nightmare!

H

Jan - you sound impressed?!!

H