Mid sort; my assistant (knowing what I'd
said re replacement) immediately took a nap in the packing and played no
further part in the proceedings!
It's basically a junk lot, but they are
always useful, for instance the - quite common - Hong Kong copies of Jean's Wild West figures which are
normally polyethylene, came here in Blue PVC/vinyl which was new to me and will
add colour to the common cream/brown sample!
The little yellow 'plane is interesting,
unmarked and fitted with an eye/loop possibly for one of those 'take-off &
landing' games with a long arm? There were a few more of those 'Euro-flat' Wild
West with the little 'chad' bases (not in shot) and the five-inch'ish Mountie
seems to be one of the HK copies of Reliable-type
originals? He'll need a horse.
The parcel, being 'ordinary post' must have
already been in the system when the Gem
footballer's posted the other day, but there was a nice early (large based),
unmarked (Cullpitt?) goalie with his
jumper in the same puce green paint as the two I mentioned the other day. A
paint-less, semi-flat Tirrailier would seem to be French, a Hong Kong
paratrooper, Marx Warrior of the World
Federal Officer, 2 'crazy clown' horses and a blue sea-dragon are other
highlights!
Some of the stuff was a bit grubby, so the
ear-buds are for cleaning as I go, and there were lots of other useful things
in the lot including another of the Cherilea
mounted 60mm knights with that dragon-decorated lance - he needs a base, and I
now believe (I got quite excited when I got a whole one) that they were in the
late (1970's) fort [play-] sets issued/branded under Cherilea-Sharna Ware - the one with
the tall hexagonal towers?
Also publishing on the Blog while I think
this parcel was in transit was the pencil tops 'top up', so as it will be a
year or a few before we look at them again, I'll chuck these two up here
quickly - the Worzel Gummidge is marked Hong Kong (and
suggests an Aunt Sally is probably out there somewhere - have you got
one?), while we saw The Flash when I first visited pencil tops in a multi-post
'round-up' a few years ago, from a set with various super-peeps and man-bats.
This was a nice find; Cherilea bass drummer - I think we've looked at the figure sans
drum with alternate aprons, but this one has a drum and nice paint! There was a
lot more and I had no idea it was on its way!
It's very hard to thank people properly for
these kinds of gift lots, as they will re-appear one or two figures at a time
for years to come, as they 'make-up' sets - added to my own purchases, or
contribute to comparisons in posts not even dreamt of yet, but I am always very
grateful for 'junk' lots! They all add to the whole.
Jim was careful not to include his surname
or a return address, so I will thank him in person when I see him next as he
obviously wishes to remain otherwise anonymous - as quite a few contributors
do; some more so - no publicity - but Jim's known to a couple of the Sandown
Park 'crew' and for them, to Jim, many thanks for a lovely surprise; hopefully
I'll see you at PW, if not - the next Sandown?
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