Marked MADE IN HONG KONG down one leg, the
horses are nicely finished but poor copies of the old Bergan Toys horse, although the riders are from Ajax poses, and a quick study of the
horse - especially the mane - reveals it's a copy of the Ajax copy of the Bergan
horse, specifically the Ajax 'Large Horse and Rider' range.
The un-carded bags don't have any
staple holes or tape marks, being heat-sealed like old bread-bags! Therefore
they probably [almost certainly] weren't mounted on a larger backing card either
but rather; sold from a shop stock box, or transferred from a generic shipping
carton to point-of-sale 'bin' type thing?
One of the bags wasn't sealed very well at
all, and had opened itself with a little help from Royal Fail so the Indian can run free, his black Mustang carrying
him majestically across the central plains his ancestors enjoyed; the cowboy
will remain a prisoner where he will be unable to wave his 'legally-held'
firearm about with quite the gay abandon he might otherwise claim a
constitutional-right to so do!
Left over from a post a while ago (the shot
was in another folder and I forgot it!), these are cheaper Hong Kong copies loosely
based on European posts, the upper pair being found in a similar bag to Brian's
two; it's a copy of the Britains Trojan
horse with a swivel-waist Indian harking back to Crescent I think.
Below the 'mint' pair; are a few that appear
vaguely related, from the right; a same size - as the Indian above - cowboy,
again swivel-waist, but with heavier leg sculpts and factory paint. To his left
are two smaller swivel-waist clones, following the pose, paint (and plastic
colour in the case of the middle figure), these will be copies from a smaller
firm of the larger figure, just to grab a slice of commercial-pie!
The middle guy being a direct clone, while
the chap on the left only has paint on the upper half and seems to be an
earlier version of the unpainted foot-figures we looked at here and which were carried in Baravelli
sets Indiani e Cowboy - I noticed the
other day that that's still 'Barabelli' to the PSTSM!
2 comments:
The swivel cowboy rider on the left looks a bit like a clone variant of the Lido swivel rider with a gun added to his right hand.
He does Dan, yes! There's a fair few around, I think one of the French companies copied him too? I have some Italian ones about 35/40mm but they are 'fat' solids (as in eaten too many beans!), but the poses are all alike!
H
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