Although - he beats me hands-down on typos - as does his assistant.
However, if it's 'finds' he wants, along the lines of his piss-poor output
(rather than my usual thematic or subject-specific posts), it is 'finds' he
shall have!
These all came in the other day with a
no-other-bidders (or one-other bid? I can't remember) speculative-offer, couple-of-hours-to-go auction on evilBay, for a mixed job-lot of mostly farm and zoo
animals. I actually took the punt for the Lido/Kellogg's
animals in the lot; of which there was a large double-handful of both sculpt-types.
You could see the Britains horse clearly in the lot, all cut-about with a Stanley-knife, but the rider (Sheriff of
Nottingham) was half buried in Hong Kong horse flesh, hens and hippo's. His
paint is OK (I've seen - and got - better) and he's complete, but weirder still
was that the Speedwell Sheriff's
mount was among the said Hong Kong horse flesh, sans rider, but the tail's there!
Here they are together with the previously
posted (here at Small Scale World) better paint figure and correct horse from
the master collection, on the screen behind them!
They don't make a good combination, he
looks to be riding while suffering piles . . . Ooh, me' tag-nuts . . . ouwh, me' daggle-berries, yeh, verily - me'
arse is on fire!" and is sitting, apparently bracing himself against
the stirrups with a gap between his bottom and the saddle. We looked at the
correct Speedwell rider for the horse last time as well.
In the same lot was this Crescent grazing horse, normally I
wouldn't show shite like this to you but . . . if it's a 'find'; a 'find' it
is! Someone has made a horse blanket from a sticking plaster - and quite
effective it is too!
They have also added a walking halter (???
I know f-all about horse tackle!) from button thread, of the sort we used to
move our Aberdeen Angus' around - if they let us, if not they kindly dragged us
where they wanted to go! The knots are even in the correct places.
I've already removed them; the plaster had
been there so long both it and it's glue had all gone brittle, and it came off
in hundreds of tiny little pieces, but some surgical spirit got the plastic
back to 'original' in a jiffy!
Sticking with early British polymers, the
same lot also contained two pieces of FG
Taylor's later plastic farm (you may have noticed the metal version of the
nesting hen came-in with the last lot of Sandown plunder), with the piggy-wig
being a very poor moulding (in otherwise good condition - or it will be after a
clean!) and a rather insipid shade of pinky-mauve, either the mould was too
cold, or the injector head wasn't hot enough and what are known as 'jetting-'
or 'blush-' marks are clearly visible all over the pig.
These are similar to the Rena birds, and while looking like some of
the Macau-made PVC stuff are actually marked Hong Kong. I've seen them
described as 'Dolls House' birds, but I think that was just feebleBay
bottom-feeding through speculative-hopefulness rather than salient detail!
There are at least two more to 'find'; a
crested macaw-looking thing and something purple with a nest, they would have
been sold blister carded as a set, as rack-toy novelties or - possibly - cake
decorations?
These were in the box too, another part set
(of pairs) or parts of two sets? There was another duck, but he clearly went
with a bunch of the horses and donkeys (by base mark and less subdued colouring) while these
are all marked China and decorated - bar the hen - in a rather insipid scheme. I'll keep one of
each for the master collection, and shuffle the rest off to a charity shop. . .
. . . from whence I got a nice card fort
with figures today (Monday 17th), I also bought another mixed lot of farm and
zoo on feeBay for four-quid, all piled in a basket and photographed through the
holes! We'll see what's in it, maybe get another 'finds' post out of it, or
five? These bits-&-bobs posts are easy (probably why TJF sticks wi'em!),
and if you'd prefer them I can do three or four a day for err . . . like . . .
err . . . forever!
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