Muttonchoptastic!
Gisela
Graham, purveyor of fine wholesale ornamentation to
the gentry and anyone else who'll give her a few shekels for it! She is to
Christmas; what Dorothy Perkins was
for summer dresses, or to Christmas trees; what Cath Kitson is to tea-time and cushions!
Charity
Shop!
We had two of these when we were kids, they
came in our Christmas-morning stockings and were a tiger and a zebra, I don't
know what happened to them but I've always missed them as they sat above the
curtain-rail for the whole of my remembered childhood with a Wade drummer-boy, some Whimsies dinosaurs and wild animals
(also Wade!) from Christmas crackers
and a few other figural 'objéts', probably where I got the
collecting-bug from?
In
Operation!
I don't know what these are called in
common parlance, do they have a name? Pop-ups, poppers, droppers, drop-downs,
bowers, take-a-bows, collaps'ers, spring-ups? They are 'Pop-up Toys' in the tag list . . . all two of them!
I bought a Yeoman of the Guard one a year
or two ago in Wilkinson's. Now, they
say "More than two is a collection"
so, that's another sub-branch/sub-section/sub-genre I seem to have embarked
upon!
It's only 24 days 'till Santa comes!
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