So, we'll have a few quickies this
afternoon, follow-ups and further stuff or loose-ends tied off, with something
a bit more substantial tomorrow, but that's not to say today's late-postings
aren't interesting, they all are! And again, like the other day - all
contributions.
Paul sent this the other day, which I think
is a scan of a photocopy of a photocopy of the 1966 catalogue. It clearly backs-up my thoughts on
the figures being Lone Star supplied
(and 'possibly' Lone Star branded) as
they are, but more importantly seems to suggest my memories of red and green
ones has some merit too.
And they are bright red and green like the
yellow we looked at the other day, they are toys, not 'toy soldiers' and as
such were issued in bright, primary colours - I bet some a blue too?
It's hard to tell form the illustration,
but it seems they clip to a wooden (or rubber? Plastic?) block with a sturdy
wire-rod set along one edge so that the figures (sorry; "Redskin Targets"!) fall backwards
when hit by the cork, if you choose to use them rather than the card targets.
We can see at least four poses, a fifth may
be behind the card, but I don't think the kneeling one is included, so that
probably was my imagination!
2 comments:
Hi, thanks for the great page, I am fairly new in collecting so I am catching up, I have 6 different poses (4 red and 2 Yellow) one of the yellow figures is kneeling, firing a bow. Stephen
Cheers Steven, I've got to do a follow-up on these as one or two have come in now, giving all poses and proving both colours seem to have been used for all six, with their target scores, but they are all over the place at the moment, and it may be a year or so before I can do that!
H
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