I think we've looked at the Fontanini dancers already, and I think
the magnetic dancer was also levered into a post back in the summer, the tank
too has been seen and will be seen again in a minute. The action figure-sized,
non-action figure is - I suspect - a Dr. Who character figure?
While the three aircraft will be married-up
with the growing piles of like craft for future posts, and the large black
oblong is a horse riding ornament of which I have a better one somewhere, so
we'll look at it another day.
The pirate is from Torgano and missing a base, but he's my only one so he stays! The
two mocherettes are among the harder to find so come in useful for the
forthcoming page on such things.
A couple of Blue Box diecast Romans were procured, the seller had hundreds of
them but only the two poses, so I grabbed one of each as it had been a slow
day, and I was watching the pennies.
The figures were piled in an old box, so
had suffered a lot of scrapes and stuff, but worse, most of the pilums were
broken or very bent and while I carefully found two which were OK, they weren't
brilliant and need a bit of hot water and TLC.
As with most of the stuff we collect, and
at the cost of repeating myself for the umpteenth time; these aren't rare, and
we have seen them here before in a boxed set, while I already had an AEC
armoured car, but these two were cheap (the seller had to ring his dad to get
the price!) and that was after I told the chap they were Crescent, but with an odd scale and broken T34 gun-barrel I think
he was glad to find a buyer?
Bibendum; the Michelin Man turned out to be a duplicate, and I think I bought him
from the same seller as my previous 'find' (he's got a box full!), but you
can't always remember everything you have in the heightened atmosphere of a
show, and sometimes a split decision is the wrong call - I did the same thing a
few weeks ago at the November show, with a Thunderbird
figure from Xandria Holland
key-rings!
While Adrian chucked me the Britains lion-cub painted as a tiger!
Loving these two, the capsule-toy type
truck looks like a Mercedes Unimog, but is probably a Japanese or Chinese light-truck
from the 1970's? The house is a solid lump of lead-flat, and with some age I
suspect, but very much like similar stuff which would later be produced as
margarine or similar premiums and the spirit-paint colour on the roof is . . . err . . . delicious?
The floor is often a generous soul, and at
the March show I did quite well with my end-of day sweep, a complete Airfix telegraph pole, British soldiers
from Esci and Hong Kong, a Matchbox Super-King wheel, a train wheel
and the power transfer clip from Hornby/Tri-Ang
equipment made-up a useful harvest.
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