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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.

Thursday, April 18, 2019

H is for Hangers

I don't for sure know the history of these, I believe in some parts of the world 'tree hangers' have some tradition at Easter as they do at Christmas, and they only do at Christmas here because they were imported during Victorian/Edwardian times by our 'German' royalty as an early example of globalisation!

However they (hangers) are now becoming an Easter 'thing' over here, and while it's still only in some strata of society, I picked up a bag of them in a charity shop the other day and we'll have a quick shufti - as it's Easter and they're figural!

Baubles; Blow Mould Rabbits; Blow Moulded Toy; Chicken Novelties; Chicks and Chickens; Easter Baubles; Easter Blow Moulds; Easter Bunny; Easter Crafts; Easter Decorations; Easter Egg Art; Easter Eggs; Easter Hangers; Easter Toys; Easter Tree Decorations; Easter Tree Hangers; Egg Art Designs; Novelty Chicks; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Hens; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tree Decoration;
Only the one duplicate (green-egg hugger) and they are poured-resin with nylon-cord string-hangers. They are what they are.

Baubles; Blow Mould Rabbits; Blow Moulded Toy; Chicken Novelties; Chicks and Chickens; Easter Baubles; Easter Blow Moulds; Easter Bunny; Easter Crafts; Easter Decorations; Easter Egg Art; Easter Eggs; Easter Hangers; Easter Toys; Easter Tree Decorations; Easter Tree Hangers; Egg Art Designs; Novelty Chicks; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Hens; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tree Decoration;
Hollow, blow-moulded rabbits. The technique seems to involve an element of either cutting/stamping or very thin-walled moulds, as two of the figurines have strange bubbles of flash (arrowed) which have a slim join to the product as if the hot polymer has leaked into an adjoining - yet restrictive - chamber, I can't get my head round picturing it to be honest!

They are like the waste you would get from between repeat stampings in sheet material, maybe a measured shot of polymer is blown into a mold as it stamps together - like a glass bottle mould? Or am I talking crap!

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