Bought this at that last Birmingham show in
2011, and though I'd not sorted it, but I had slipped it into the mixed
civilian and sports box, mainly because it had come apart so was easy to slip
down the side of the tubs with the pack of figures on top of the mixed circus
tub! Luckily it still holds together for a photo, and I scanned it flat at the
same time.
Three rings; mostly the same-old-same-old
copies of Crescent's set, seen before
here in miniature and under Maysun
and generic HK marks, these are generics, indeed, the performing seal has no
marks at all.
But there are other items of less obvious
piracy; I love the polar-bear playing the horn, while the animal trainer is
looking a tad French or American in origin? I thought the clown might ride the
elephant, but actually he only falls off the elephant, but he does stand-up
independently, so 'just' a clowning clown!
I have lost track of these, I have a bunch
with the unknown dancers, a bunch with the unknown cake-decorations, a bunch
with the unknown novelties and a bunch of small-scale/mini's, she has been
copied so often it's silly; with Britains,
Fontanini and Gem (in addition to Crescent's
dancer) to plagiarise, there's bloody hundreds of them!
The day anyone gets a Tiger to balance on
four balls for even an instant is probably the day he or she dies a wild and
savage death - from a thousand claw-strikes! I think someone misheard an
antiques-dealer talking about 'lions-claw ball-feet', too funny? Bear's bloody
brilliant!
The monkey can't ride the horse as it's got
Crescent's great ostrich-plume
'palm-frond' growing out of its back! However, he does manage to ride the
elephant quite well! You can see from these 'bag-opening' mint figures (lots of
paint-chips in the bottom of the bag though) that the glossy-plastic monkey has
probably been bought-in from a different source to the chalky elephant?
We've seen these two before, they came-in a
year or so ago, but they do suggest that the contents list of the above set may
be fluid and changeable from batch to batch or even box-to-box?
Crescent clown and 'berserker' conspire to deal with the piracy! And you
thought Crescent's clown had a stupid
nose!
Because the circus tub was underneath; Not
a full set, but under the paint of the bear and the clown are four matching
yellow polystyrene (hard plastic) figures who must belong to a larger set.
One's first thought is cake decorations,
but they've been glued onto something . . . in fact . . . I vaguely remember
removing them from some article or infant toy, I recall the lions paw
disintegrated and I had to build it back-up from three crumbly pieces! So there
may be something in the files? Music-box, clockwork toy, covered-lid, something
like that?
The clown looks well-pleased with himself,
but I think the tiger's too close for a clean-shot in the time left-available
and a flag saying 'bang' never saved a breakfast from happening - the bear
knows exactly what's coming . . . ulp!
Cum'mon lazy-bones', you've got a show to
put-on!
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