. . . make a bit of money for
chahrridee!
Popped into
Blue Cross yesterday to donate a few books, assistant was near the door, so I handed the books over and left the shop, then thought "I'm here; I might as well have a look", returned to the store and wandered over to the toy section. Saw a bag . . .
. . . it looked interesting. It's a poor shot, but it's been sorted now so I couldn't re-take it!
Rocco (?) knight's horse was obvious, as was the
Timpo Arab, better stuff the other side, but what's that red-yellow and blue lump (left-hand arrow)?
It was only a
Britians ECW musketeer, complete, with two others and a slightly damaged 'Prince Rupert'! Although the sword of the mounted Lobster-pot was a bit chewed.
Another leg turned-up for the standing knights horse after the photo-sesh, but three just doesn't cover the role; "
Need I say with over much emphasis that it is in the leg division that it is deficient, the role requiring a quadridexter!", while the other one has all his legs and no tail, hey-ho! At least the knight is complete.
The plethora of
Kellogg's guardsmen premiums served (with small scale shrapnel) to camouflage the quality of the lot and only two items were in the recycling by midnight, this chocolate brown
Tudor Rose horse (by which time it was in three pieces - brittle as a biscuit!) and the
Herald Indian in the previous shot.
A nice group of
Timpo Arabs surfaced, one straight in the spares box, but the other four and the mounted figure having all parts and good paint. Nothing else exciting here, mostly swaps, but the bear-fighter from
Lone Star is a nice find.
The smallies; basically a clean sample of
Airfix Russian, Japanese and Combat Group, all-three a few short of a full set . . . and a propeller - Fairy-something? Dart?
The bear fighting cowboy thrusts and Little Cub dances away, both this and the mounted
swoppet Indian had/have all feathers and thin or pointy-bits, sheath-knives are present and paint is OK on both, the
Lone Star are more played-with.
Arabs and ECW in close up; a bit of a tug and a trim made the Lobbster's sword more presentable and he will need a replacement scabbard, but I know a man who has a few spares, they are tin-plate stampings so it shouldn't prove a problem.
Two questions remain - no 'khaki infantry', excepting the
Airfix, is some kid somewhere in Fleet playing with a bag of rareish/early British toy soldiers? And why are some pieces played-with to gash-point, while others are quite pristine? Odd - but a bargain! And you could ask why no animals or civilians?
4 comments:
Nice little treasure trove you have here.
Good to get the Rocco knight unbroken, and both the horses, even if a bit damaged.
>>And why are some pieces played-with to gash-point, while others are quite pristine?
The figures may have come from different sources and been bagged together by the shop?
Good point Dave - well made! I hadn't though about that, they come in in ones and twos with other things, very likely the answer and it explains the lone O-Gauge mechanic!
More Rocco later today Brian.
Cheers Jan, it's all grist to the mill! Churned-up, ground-down, mixed with words and baked into Blog-posts!
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