At last we get to the justification for my banging-on about Lucky with little or no empirical evidence for the last five posts!
This is the full Lucky base-mark, variations of it are used on branded packaging and
can be found under the bodies of Lucky's
toy vehicles, the vehicles of its own subsidiary brands (Laurie Toys for instance), as well as the vehicles of other brands
or 're-box' importers such as Fairylite
and Clifford.
Here we see the mark employed on one of
today's 'ovoid based' figures, one of the square based figures from the other
day and the underside of my VW Carmen
Ghia, otherwise badged (by its box) to Laurie
Toys - the same mark appears on the floor underside of the accompanying
caravan.
Another figure-set I know I don't have all
the members of, or I suppose 'figure batch' is a better term as all these
figures appear with the other 'batch' figures in the larger sets, even the
firemen sometimes get one of the generic drivers.
Missing from my parade are the guy with a
large 1950's style motor-racing engine oil or fuel (very dangerous if so!)
can/pourer and a guy with a smaller lap-board or larger clipboard than the two
we've previously looked at.
The 'lucky' base also undergoes various
changes as it's anonymised for sub-contractors or other reasons, first the
whole Lucky element (horseshoe and
'L') are scratched out, then a ¾-blank is employed, that's all
cleaned-up and the '№' is removed while the code-number is reversed and centred, finally
the whole base is re-cut to conform more to the kidney-based figures, there
seems to be no 1112 issue of these figures - so far!
540 - Race Official
with Finishing Flag
541 - Kneeling
Mechanic/Scrutiniser
542 - Spectator Camera
543 - Spectator Waving
with Binoculars
Unknown Numbers
? - Guy with Large
Oil/Fuel Can/Pourer
? - Guy with Notice
Board/Clipboard/Lap Board
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