Gutted! My guy is missing a fishing-rod and I
hadn't even noticed; I thought he was holding his catch with a gaff or
something! Anyway, Chris's is also a different colourway, has the same
ring-chain loop-removal scar . . . and a fishing rod . . . fussa-russa!
Chris also wanted to know about this chap, he's
around 60/65mm? I think he looks Fontanini'ish
(precepi
/ nativity figure), but the plastic colour is wrong and the paint's a bit
bright, so possibly a Hong Kong copy, although unmarked? Have you anything to
add for Chris?
Seeing Chris's reminded me I had one (in
addition to the larger Chinoisery one we saw from Hong Kong a couple of years
ago), I think this guy is also Fontanini
and I'm sure the cotton thread is an owner's addition, but I've never had the
heart to remove it!
When I say I think he's Fontanini, he is the same dense PVC as a
lot of their other production, particularly the painted stuff, in a flesh-pink
polymer; which they commonly used, and has the same dark-green base as the
African warriors.
But, it is a solid base (see below) with no
hollow, or marks, so he could be from one or two of the other presepi-makers
in Italy, such as Nadi, but they also
tended to hollow bases and a mark?
That solid base on mine and a couple of
size comparisons for Chris's pair, one with the aforementioned whale! Mine is
smaller, but he comes from a larger set of European rural or 'rustic' types,
while Chris's is in the Chinoisery style of the more upright set of Asian
figures from Fontanini we've also
looked at here, indeed there's a sub-set of fishing-related figures in the Sino-Japanese set?.
It's a Sperm Whale I think, or is it a
Blue? Chris wonders if it's Hill,
purely on the painting, which is similar to some of their animals, likewise I
wondered if it might be Hong Kong from the similarity with some mini dinosaur
rack toy's painting, but it's unmarked (most HK stuff has some mark?), and
reading the current articles by Steve Pugh in Plastic Warrior magazine (issues 175 & 176 - current) on early
British dinosaurs, it's clear the red-mouth thing was a trope across the toy
trade back in the day!
Again, if you can help Chris with either
figure, that would be great.
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