Brian said "Last weekend my wife and I went to Florida for a wedding. The town was
Sarasota which contains a group of museums called The Ringling founded by the founder of the Ringling Brothers Circus. One part of the museum is called The Tibbals Learning Center which contains
the massive model of a travelling circus at 1” to 18” scale. My photos do not
do credit to the model so go to the website."
1 & 2 "...show figures on the workbench. They are based on plastic German made
dolls house figures that were obtained in bulk when SEARS stores discontinued
the range. I mention all this in case you can identify the brand? As you can
see working from a photo they are making a diorama of workers standings outside
a railcar."
A fascinating shot of a professional's
workbench, not that a lot of you don't also have tools, paints, reference
materials, lights, magnifiers and several works in progress scattered around or
piled about! Although one feels this table's been tidied somewhat for the
public who are allowed to look.
These look to be commercial Italian
nativity figures, possibly Composition (from the strange angle of the tails)
but could be plastic? I can also see a novel use for kids pink, fluorescent,
craft pipe-cleaners. The camels have also been enhanced with various items of
craft and 'carding' materials, trims and baubles!
These are wonderful, I suspect a latex (?)
wrap-around moulding to convert - again commercial - horses into 'sea-horses';
the mirror crates an army of them!
This is wonderful; I believe the balding
gent showing the kids how a sea-lion is handled was once a novelty pencil-sharpener,
possibly sold by Archee
McFee/Accoutrements, about ten years ago?
Note also how the pinking-sheered edge of
the model marquee almost matches the real one visible in the background and the
top of the shot. I vaguely recognise the girls, are they an old, [failed?] line
of 'pink' Lego?
Many more people along with a fleet of
scratch-built animal wagons with what looks like one of the rings, in the
background, but closer inspection reveals it's the elephants enclosure.
It would be nice to see a few comments on
this one - can you ID any of the commercial figures origins, what interests you
on the worktop, what do you like best, I love the sea-horse army!
Thanks to Brian Berke for sending us
something a little out of the ordinary.
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