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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.

Monday, August 12, 2019

T is for Two - Blue Box Mini Farm Sets

A couple of the smaller-scale sets from Blue Box here, and two civilian farm sets, but not the Britains piracy stuff from the 54mm farms, but the mini ones we looked at the loose animals from an RTM or two ago.

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; A "Blue-Box" Toys Series; Bagged Toy; Blue Box; Blue Box 7222A; Blue Box Farm Set; Blue Box Farm Toys; Boxed Toy; Britains farm; Britains Farmer's Wife; Britains Lambs; Britains Rabbits; Britians Farmer; Farm Series; Hand Painted; Make Your Own Play Farm; Merit Cows; Merit Fences; Merit Horses; Plastic Toy Series; Railway Scenics; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Box; about four inches square and the artwork places it among the early 1960's ranges. Contents list is accurate, but the blub is so much salesman's hot air, as is the 'Plastic Toy Series' line; they didn't have series' of any other material at the time!

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; A "Blue-Box" Toys Series; Bagged Toy; Blue Box; Blue Box 7222A; Blue Box Farm Set; Blue Box Farm Toys; Boxed Toy; Britains farm; Britains Farmer's Wife; Britains Lambs; Britains Rabbits; Britians Farmer; Farm Series; Hand Painted; Make Your Own Play Farm; Merit Cows; Merit Fences; Merit Horses; Plastic Toy Series; Railway Scenics; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Also seen in Marx 'Majestic Series' sets (as supplied by Blue Box . . . or Tai Sang!), these are mostly Merit copies (all fencings, horses and cows), with the pigs possibly Blue Box sculpts (they were also issued by Redbox) and the house being one of many, many Hong Kong copies of any one of several German, Austrian or French model railway trackside accessory producers.

The figures are more interesting, as they might have been copied by Marx first (for their Miniature Masterpiece farm sets) and then passed to Blue Box during the Majestic Series negotiations, but equally Blue Box may have pantographed them down from their own 54mm piracies, with Marx doing some parallel 'lifting' straight from Britains, whose figure sculpts they actually are!

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; A "Blue-Box" Toys Series; Bagged Toy; Blue Box; Blue Box 7222A; Blue Box Farm Set; Blue Box Farm Toys; Boxed Toy; Britains farm; Britains Farmer's Wife; Britains Lambs; Britains Rabbits; Britians Farmer; Farm Series; Hand Painted; Make Your Own Play Farm; Merit Cows; Merit Fences; Merit Horses; Plastic Toy Series; Railway Scenics; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
A smaller set, pretty-much the same layout as the Majestic Series set we sawhere, but bagged with a header-card. We saw similar sets with fewer contents, both branded as Success (WH Cornelius - now PlayWrite) and unbranded generics, in the loose figure post. The pigs have escaped - they do that! While Britains features more obviously with the inclusion of copies of their lambs and rabbits in 1:32nd scale.

Note; I may in the past have described the Majestic Series as the Sunshine Series, this was a Wild West line also supplied by Blue Box to Marx, so if I have - soz!

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