ABC is for Agricultural Blister Cards!

Nothing exciting and not even much of a box-ticker as two of the sets are generics and the third an import piece, but there's a couple of points of interest in them and any event; in Rack Toy Month you're gonna get the odd dud!

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!