Whether the mould was in Hong Kong or was
moved to Hong Kong is - currently - anybody's guess, just because some people
have attributed HK without recourse to evidence or caviat is not really the
point, the figures exist and while those late painted ones 'look' Hong Kong'y,
there is nothing to say either way!
Indeed; these may be from a late version of
the board game, paint is not necessary for 'playing counters' and while I've
never seen a set with these, equally I've never seen a carded or bagged rack
toy with them either?
They could just as easily have been run as cake
decorations, the same as those very frangible Triang-Minimodels ones - who also have unpainted versions. Note:
the second shade of brown.
There is a clear difference is in the
horses where there are various horse colours (and I must thank Gareth from Morgan Miniatures for
putting a few of these - foot & mounted - aside for the Blog recently), but I don't think there is
any import by it, beyond a bit of variation.
The real American [not a] Hero who gets to
be massacred again and again and again and again and again and again and again
. . . although when I say 'massacred' I mean taught a lesson by the locals
"Never go south of the River if
you're not properly tooled-up and ready for trouble" . . . . everybody
knows that, ask a taxi-driver!
2 comments:
They were sold in header card bags in Zodiac Toys in the 1970s in their 15pence toy line
Aaahhhh! That's useful stuff, thank you kind Sir!
Funny, they keep cropping-up, I have a few images (off of that evilBay), but there have been several mentions of them recently, here and elsewhere, do you know if there's a catalogue somewhere . . . like Lions?
H
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