I picked these up on eBay a while ago (so
some of you may have those photos in your files!) mainly because they were
going for a realistic sum; otherwise I only download the photos!
A mix of ex-Britains and other makes farm stuff in generic packaging and it
looks a bit like Blue Box but it's not;
it's of poorer quality to start with, although it wants you to think it is -
with the blue/white/yellow thing going on.
But first point of interest is that there
is a mix of items decorated with hand-paint, spray-paint or unpainted in
unrealistic-coloured plastic.
An ex-Corgi
calve also copied by the aforementioned Blue
Box in this set, same artwork but the pictures changed to match the
blisters, each shaped for specific contents. Again a mix of contents; the
unpainted poultry in primary colours were also issued with some of the small
scale sub-piracies figures we looked at here a year ago.
The second point of interest, this card
shares 'thumbnail' background pictures with the other two, and carries the same
artwork, but is over-printed with a Linda
branded header. Linda did carry some Blue Box but they also carried lesser
stuff so that's no surprise, but it's nice to get the Branded version of a
generic.
Indeed the main reason for purchasing them
is that while downloading the images of sets like these is useful, it's only
when you can inspect them up close and personal that you can use them to ID
lose stuff in the HK animals box/tub, especially when you get different markings in the same set, or the painted/unpainted joint-thing!
No comments:
Post a Comment