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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

J is for Jean Höffler - 1: Wild West Jean Originals

I don't have a very good sample of Jean originals, a few odds and sods which have come-in with mixed lots and a bunch of mounted which I think came as a single lot? As a result I shot all the copies and things, but then ended-up with too many images for a post, so broke it into three, leaving the rathey-crappy sample of Jean originals as an intro'!

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
The samples we will be looking at - with a few additions - there are smaller copies, lots of them, but they are of little merit and poor quality so can wait for another day! The trouble with the originals (as far as my acquiring them goes) is that there are loads of them and the best place for a check-list/images is Kent's page.

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
My cowboys; the two prone ones seem to be additional poses, less easy to find and mine look to have never been painted, I also think they were on another tool, while scale wise they are a little larger too, but probably the same sculptor? The white horse has no signs of paint either.

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
Foot Indians; hardly worth showing and no prone figure, but I have the female with papoose which is another less common sculpt so you win some, you lose some!

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
However I can chase down Mr. Custer and give him a good spanking, as I have  a decent load of mounted Natives, albeit rather tatty on the paint front, but rather like Crescent or late Cherilea (&etc!) the later, shiny polyethylene meant the paint stayed on long enough to get them to the shops, and little else! It's fair to say these are play worn, and some of the horses have silver manes!

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
I shot this on John Begg's stand at Plastic Warrior a couple of years ago, and the horses are of note as we'll see some similar ones soon with a question-mark over them. Similar to the Cofalux one, but with a really naff slot-base system for the horse-team.

30mm Figures; Cofalux; Cowboy Horses; Cowboys; Cowboys & Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Female With Papoose; Foot Indians; Hong Kong; Jean Höffler; Jean Originals; Made In Germany; Manurba-Big; Mounted Natives; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stage Coach; Swoppet; Toy Soldier HQ; Wagon Horse; Wild West; Wundertüten;
Variations on a theme; A Hong Kong version in pink (next post) stands with the Manurba-Big swivel-waist and a 30mm figure (another 'left-hooker'), both also used (like the set we're looking at here) as various premiums and in the Wundertüten 'sweetie' bags.

So that's a bit of a box-ticker, but it gets them out there and we'll look at the Hong Kong marked ones next.

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