The UK's
Lever Brothers (Progress, Sunlight, Vim) became the
Anglo-Dutch Unilever some time ago
(1929) and they have been in just about everything consumable, including a lot
of premium issuers (tea, coffee, margarine, ice cream, and the washing powders
that issued these), so while these certainly date from after the merger
(1960's/70's?), the brand was obviously still a part of the UK arm, premiums
found with Lever on the base can also
be found with Primo in the same
place; Primo was a European washing
powder brand I believe.
The fact that they both owe much to Crescent figurines is also A) no
accident and B) further sign of their having originated in the UK. They are
quite chunky and toward 70mm which probably helps take them out of the
'straight' plagiarism zone!
Posed like-for-like on the left and more
frontally on the right these are the two donors and you can see that they
pulled from both the 54mm and 60mm sets from Crescent, adding a US/NATO type ' M1' helmet to both which further
carries them away from the realm of piracy and more toward l'homage!
Corporate Stuff
Lever Brothers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_Brothers
Van den Berghs - https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Van_den_Berghs
When you read a headline like "Unilever to Acquire Ice Cream Business Owned by Kraft Unit of Philip
Morris" you realise just how murky the corporate multinational world
is! Philip Morris make cigarettes
FFS!
Equally; there's some irony involved in posting this the same day a
report by a cross-bench group of MP's is issued recommending the phasing-out
(or outright banning?) of cartoon characters and promotions on cereal packets!
Apparently the Jolly Green Giant (Santa in his day job . . . think about
it . . . "Ho Ho Ho!") will
survive to promote his 'healthy' vegetables . . . even though they are syrupy,
tinned vegetables with probably similar levels of sugar-per-spoonful as some
breakfast cereals, while the world swims through an ever growing sea of guns
and waste plastic - way'ta'go MP's!
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