P is for Plastix

Have we had these before? I think we may have had these before - in the footy 'mini-season' a couple of January's ago, but we're going to have them again as I noticed something while trying to decide whether we'd had them or not, which I don't think I'd noticed last time!

A bog-standadrd'ish set of flat footballers, three-a-side plus a referee, between 54 and 60mm, I probably said last time that I don't know how may poses there were or what other colours you may find them in, but what I didn't say last time is that they are all marked, I wouldn't say 'clearly' but marked they are nevertheless!

Indeed on the fluorescent green and orange-red players it's hard to see and just as hard to read with a jeweller's loupe and pen-torch, but on the referee it's more easy to spot, and can be read, a shadowed cartouche with Plastix within the inner boundary.

Plastix seem to be an Argentine jobber/pirate, they also ran a version of the Dolls of the World (Commonwealth type - still to be added to that page!), but from the poorer [Hong Kong?] tools, or their own copy-tools?

Not to be confused with Superglue-Plastix a Locktite brand-mark (now phased-out but probably still owned/registered by them) for their 'soft plastic' cyanoacrylate super-glue, these figures almost certainly pre-date the late 1990's use by Locktite?

Technically, I think the Europeans would class these as demi-ronde, due to their not being as flat as the German 'Nuremberg' lead flats, but I think of them as flats because they have no sticky-out bits!

And - for those wanting to tick the box, I think I got these from The Swagman's Daughter who trades on feeBay but also has a shop:

www.theswagmansdaughter.com

She may have some left.