H is for How They Come In - 'Jims Box'

I was looking out for Jim at Sandown Park, but he found me first and literally dumped this in my lap! I wanted his surname or eBay 'handle' by way of thanking him properly for the box that arrived here back in the summer and out of the blue, but he's happy with Jim, so Jim it is, and many thanks to him for another pile of useful, interesting, odd or gap-filling stuff!

As it opened, and less a couple of interesting bits which were obvious on the top! What can you spot? Dongle-archive ready to the left and the 'Pirate Day' opening article being finished on the screen!

First sorted into basic piles, in order to get the box out of the way, it was animal-heavy, but I think that's Jim's main trope as far as collecting goes, the O-gauge level crossing gates will be a while in the spares box I fear, but it's all grist to the mill, and one day it may be perfect as a background in a photo-shoot!

Further sorting, because all the animals are split between the storage lot and the attic lot, and with both a bit disorganised, for now I've just done them by type, and will sort them all again properly later. I've already had a good look at the piggy-wigs though, and a small post is forthcoming!

Some of the more interesting or unusual pieces, we've already had the Lone Star Indian and the Hing Kong blow-moulded Alienaut! An early Lego tree and flat rubber-sheep marked Mercis TV 1977 (some 'Pugwash' type cartoon?) were highlights along with a Lone Star knight in an odd colour plastic.

The three I picked for the post - a hard-styrene highlander from a hollow-cast mould, I think I may have one or two in storage, but haven't found the highlander box yet, I'm hoping (and suspect) mine is/are darker painting?

The Jesus/Disciple/Saint figure is also hard styrene and a copy of a Marx piece I think, while I got very excited about the blacksmith, thinking it might be an unidentified Speedwell, given its similarity in size and sculpting to those diminutive medics we looked at recently, but a quick check on Barney Brown's site reveled it to be T... &/or B... (with tatty paint) but still; new to the collection!

The local berserker gives an idea of scale/size, while the highlander shields the holy man! The reason I think I may have the odd highlander is that these three are all within the size I used to collect-to; 50mm.

Cheers Jim, they may be your chuck-outs, but they will prove invaluable to the Blog; piggy-wiggies in a day or two!