Top left is a Hong Kong-made cake
decoration fisherman on his little boat, based on earlier lead models
originally used to decorate bonsai or miniature rock-gardens. Bottom right we
have the small vessel from the Atlantic
'Mao and the Chinese Revolution' sets
while the other vessel in both shots is a celluloid 'ivorene' touristy keepsake thing
(like the little wagons) which may be factory painted, but I suspect a
war-gamer's brushwork; from the matt-finish and accuracy!
Seven pieces for the factory glued one, the
other having five-pieces for self-assembly in a plastic which doesn't like
gluing! The first - fisherman's boat - is
a single moulding with a wire rod, a second wire-rod for fixing in the gravel/cake has been removed.
And the ironic thing is, while I think of
them/present them as Vietnamese, one's actually Hong Kong-Chinese, the others
Japanese and the third an Italian rendition of a Chinese boat and all pretty fictional/out of scale with the real things; but they look
the part!
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