So, these were the ones that prompted the
utterance that I would return to them nearer Christmas, with Peter sending some
back in the Spring or early summer;
I couldn't find all the ones I know I have
and I suspect some are in the minor-makes A-Z boxes, but there are enough to
work with here and get the foundations across! This is the 'Hong Kong Guards'
box, and from the small-scale only days it doesn't (and couldn't) contain the
big wooden ones, the nutcrackers we’ve seen, the washing-up sponge one
&etc.
This is the smallest iteration of the
sample, placed in a snow dome above a pencil-sharpener, but it's one of those
lame domes with lots of polystyrene 'bits' in. It's not product granule, that's
larger and smooth, this is like they put some small off-cuts in an old Italian
coffee grinder with the very fast blades and shredded them!
Next size up are these, originally earrings
from a David Halsall (still in the tags as Hallsal! I will sort it! . . . Half an hour later - done!), and I
think some of the missing ones are stored under Haswell, which was a sub-brand
of the company now known as HTI. I removed the jewellery component to get two
fat drummers!
These are the biggies, so far only the two
poses have turned-up; sentry/guardsman and drummer/bandsman, whether they are
all available in all three sizes or not I don't know, but they're clearly based
on the lawn blow-moulds so popular in the US and spreading across Britain as if
we have a better planet to go to when we're done buggering-up this one!
At this size you can get them as crafting
accessories, earrings, cake decorations and whatever else anyone can think of
for novelty guards! Added to the collection later, I left the earrings intact
and on their card. You can still find these out there at this time of year,
last year I think I saw the earrings in the British Heart Foundation
charity-shops as factory-clearance/new stock.
Scaler!
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