Theo van der Weerden sent this last week as
a follow-up to the previous week's post on ceremonials, four more of Athena's models of Greece's finest in
their finery! The two on the right are the same as two we looked at the other
day, but the two on the left are both colourways of another uniform type, and
also show two of the other plug-in arms these figures come with, being the
standard bearer and 'sword downwards' arms.
The sword might be meant to be held against
the waist/thigh, but their definitely had their hands through the hilt, so it
may be more significant? While - having handled many more of these than I have
got - I know the flag-staff is very thin polystyrene, and you don't often find
it in this condition . . . it's also the spear issued to Athena's ancient Greek warriors.
Ha-ha! A few weeks after I'd Blogged the
weird composition hedgehog in Chris Smith's donation parcel, look
what I found on a shelf in the legendary Peter Evans' abode, and which he
kindly let me photograph - a whole family of them!
Peter did tell me what they were, but I immediately
forgot and had to Google them . . . trying 'Belgium' and 'Holland TV Hedgehog'
with little luck I broadened my reach and found this;
So that's them then! Mecki (and Macki, Micky amd Mucki) the hedgehog[s] . . . Brilliant!
These came in a while back, the Coke-Cola/Fanta premiums (sadly still
no springbok) but with the remains of paint, heavily worn, they were clearly much-played
with and I initially assumed they were home-painted, but given the un-Coke-marked ones have started to turn-up
in other colours and more modern plastics, it's obvious the tools have had a
good life, and I offer them here as a maybe factory-painted issue, maybe
home-painted curiosity?
Around the same time and while I wasn't
Blogging; Chris Smith had also found the hunter that goes with the Hong Kong
African's he (Chris) had already helped with, back in the Spring.
Because I had already got the show-reports
done (with my similar find), these got put to one side, but I shot the bases to show the smoothness
and the translucence of the brown figures, where not enough pigment has been
added to the neutral granules (cost cutting), rendering them 'smoky' in the
thinner sections.
Finally Brian B sent the figure on the left
ages ago and I didn't add it to the recent post on them, as that was plunder . . . while
the old feebleBay image on the right shows what might be the same set but which
is I suspect a 5th generation copy (compare the dickey-bow) of Brian's 4th,
against the 2nd/3rd generations we saw last time (larger hats), of Fontanini's originals. Although with
both Peltro and Kinder (among others) also copying them, whose generation of copy
is which generation, is a moot point!
Many-thanks to Brian, Chris, Peter and Theo
for the input.
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