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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, October 31, 2019

D is for Dem' Bones - Novelty Skeletons

I can see a point where we will have only one post or subject on an otherwise quiet 31st, when we will look at all the novelty skeletons and skulls, as I can't remember what we have seen, what's still to be seen and whether some of these were seen last year or not?

Bone Shakers; Claire's Accessories; Claire's Earrings; Claire's Novelties; Coffin; Coffin Novelty; Glow In The Dark; Glow-in-the-dark; Halloween Novelty; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Mallows; Mermaids; Novelty Coffin; Novelty Mermaids; Novelty Skeletons; Novelty Sweets; Skeleton Charms; Skeleton Confectionary; Skeleton Earrings; Skeleton Keyring; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sweets and Toys; Swizzel's Mallow; Tesco Halloween;
I think these came from Chris Smith (or one of the other kind donators?), and while they don't actually belong together, they nevertheless go-together very well. The skeleton is missing an arm but from the holes in the other three limbs I suspect he came originally as a sort of string-puppet with a simple cross and maybe four, or five  strings? The coffin would suit a fat man in 54mm!

Bone Shakers; Claire's Accessories; Claire's Earrings; Claire's Novelties; Coffin; Coffin Novelty; Glow In The Dark; Glow-in-the-dark; Halloween Novelty; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Mallows; Mermaids; Novelty Coffin; Novelty Mermaids; Novelty Skeletons; Novelty Sweets; Skeleton Charms; Skeleton Confectionary; Skeleton Earrings; Skeleton Keyring; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sweets and Toys; Swizzel's Mallow; Tesco Halloween;
The coffin is marked-up Swizzles Matlow (who may still exist? You can still get Drumstick lolly's!) and has Bone Shakers on the lid. Inside the lid is a picture which looks like one of those Kinder toys where interlocking flat pieces make-up with ball-and-socket joints to a sort of poppet-doll, but I vaguely recall these as being more candy puzzles where you make up the skeleton as a loose puzzle and then eat him; limb by limb!

MPC's 60mm Vampire is trying to work out how to get in before dawn brakes! Yellow plastic - bugger to photograph!

Bone Shakers; Claire's Accessories; Claire's Earrings; Claire's Novelties; Coffin; Coffin Novelty; Glow In The Dark; Glow-in-the-dark; Halloween Novelty; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Mallows; Mermaids; Novelty Coffin; Novelty Mermaids; Novelty Skeletons; Novelty Sweets; Skeleton Charms; Skeleton Confectionary; Skeleton Earrings; Skeleton Keyring; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sweets and Toys; Swizzel's Mallow; Tesco Halloween;
Both charity shop purchases I think, both 'new' over-stock/clearance, rather than donations from the general public, the Tesco skeletons glow in the dark, the Claire's Accessories skeleton mermaids are either rainbow chrome/anodised or pure bismuth, but can you shape-form bismuth like that?

Bone Shakers; Claire's Accessories; Claire's Earrings; Claire's Novelties; Coffin; Coffin Novelty; Glow In The Dark; Glow-in-the-dark; Halloween Novelty; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Mallows; Mermaids; Novelty Coffin; Novelty Mermaids; Novelty Skeletons; Novelty Sweets; Skeleton Charms; Skeleton Confectionary; Skeleton Earrings; Skeleton Keyring; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sweets and Toys; Swizzel's Mallow; Tesco Halloween;
These have all come in over the last 12-months (I think?) although we've seen the smaller plastic one before as he's a colour-variation duplicate. Not sure where they all came from but thanks to Adrian, Brian, Chris, Jim, Peter and Trevor should cover it, and I may have found some myself!

The skull is a glow-in-the-dark novelty probably from a larger gum-ball machine, while the bigger skeleton seems to be a bookmark, maybe designed for jacket-pockets , collars or neck-lines? Although he looks quite new, he's marked Hong Kong so he dates from when most, or a lot of schools still had jackets!

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