T is for That's That Bloke From May! The One With The Magnet!

Did you spot it earlier?

I'd done all the photo's, all the image editing and most of the blurb, when I thought "He looks familiar, but he's not quite Dinky? Hold on; I've thought that before . . .?" I thought! Dug the old pictures out and sure enough . . . he's now in the Reisler tub!

Confirmation shot! The farm hand from Riesler was the figure used on that magnetic rubber advertising premium we saw a while back, from a Formeta. And; while I had found several Formeta's, none of which matched the logo, I seem to recall one or more were from the Low Countries?

Where Reisler clearly had contacts - if not an active sales team - providing these (not uncommon) carded-sets for Bois Manu (a furniture and shop-fitting design house exhibiting at the Expo '58 World's Fair in Brussels) in Belgium. Clearly a tourist keepsake, similar to the stuff you found in London from Timpo or Cavendish, but smaller; these are all 40mm.

 From the left

Flight attendant; traffic cop; police detective/Gendarme (?); motorcycle patrol-man; ceremonial Guardsman and a 'Red Cross' nurse.

From the left

Belgian Bois Manu Export figure; Danish version (both that softish but soluble polystyrene Reisler used), then three polyethylene (PE) figures; Danish policeman, 'Friendly Force' dispatch-rider; 'Enemy Force' dispatch rider.