Sorting-out in the loft and I found a box of old childhood Meccano under the eves, in among which were a few things I recognised as being both non-Meccano and from a long time ago!
Taken downstairs and duly washed, they make an intriguing pile I think?
King Kong from Hong Kong, I'm not telling him he's got a sharpie up his arse!
A little clockwork robot I well remember getting in a Christmas stocking back around 1975, his mechanism has ceased to work, not because the springs broken but because someone (?) forced the winder until it broke its seal to the housing and now just spins uselessly! However he can still help carry a phial of
Airfix paint to the recycling!
Tyrannosaurus Rex from
Addar, his head needs re-glueing, I made him up and painted him (bloodied him up a bit!) during a wet holiday in Alderney many moons ago, his Raptor mate is actually in the collection somewhere and I wondered where Rex had slopped-off to!
The Morse-code signal kit from
Palitoy;
Action Man would settle under the Rhus tree by the extension and fire-off missives about the
Cherilea-Sharna Afrika Korps half-track bivouacked by the cherry tree!
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