Straight piracy of the Britains Hawaii pair but with one of the more ornate Hong Kong palm
tree's you'll encounter, all mounted on a little base as a vignette, and while
it may have been available as a novelty toy all over the place, I guess sold in
larger numbers as a Hawaiian tourist trinket, or in similar territories for the
same reason?
The 8 components; the girl is attached to a
small spring, which is wound into the larger base-hole (so she can jiggle and wiggle her little tush with a flick or a shake) and she has a separate
skirt - I don't know if they come in other colours - while the tree is well-burdened
with coconuts!
Other piracies of Britains native dancers are available, and here Maid Marion has
popped-over to see what all the fuss is about! She has a green base so probably
also belongs with the more normal Robin
Hood cake-decoration copies (we've looked at a bagged Friar Tuck here in
the past) but was in the bags with the Hawaiian pairs as triple-figure sets,
again - like the Robin Hood figures -
cake-decorators seem to be the target customers.
I have a darker-skinned girl (should that
be duskier? Do the 'PC-Brigade' even allow "dusky maiden"? Probably
not!) with a damaged foot (no spigot), she has a yellow-plastic skirt too.
While on the end of the line is a very poor
3rd/4th generation copy, probably from the same source as some of the equally-poor African Warrior copies you find; certainly she has the same uneven 'made
in Hong Kong' letter-stamped on her base in a sort of 'typewriter' font.
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