. . . to take delivery of these! I'd mentioned
to him that I was after some more Bata
(pronounced Barter, not Batter - I know because they had an interview with one
of the UK Work's foremen on the World Service the other day (try 'Eye-Witness
History')) and he kindly found these within the month! There are four OK and
four with minor damage (missing extremities) which is pretty par-for-the-course
with these early rubber figures now.
Technically they are Czech (or
Czechoslovakian) figure production, but there's every possibility the moulds
did the rounds of each Bata factory,
so British ones may be British-made? One of the things I learnt from the
recently broadcast interview was that in some parts of Africa bata
has become the generic term for shoes, so common was the brand locally in the
mid-20th Century!
To the Bata
Adrian had added a bunch of mini/micro aeroplanes, a couple of mounted Rocco guardsmen and a few Hong Kong
bits. We will return to the small pile of mounted Wild West in RTM in a week or
two, well; few days now!
However the caveman joined his mates for a
quick photo-shoot, I suspect these are by/from LP/Lucky Toys (now known to be - LB (LP) - Lik Be) as they have similar codes to the other figures from
the range (excepting the spacemen) and in a similar format to their 'Funimals',
but I haven't - as yet - identified the dinosaurs I [also] suspect they should be
accompanied by?
They may - of course - be gum-ball machine or capsule-prizes though; due to their small size (50mm), which would make them
stand-alone 'novelties'.
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