At the back right is the Resin one we saw a
while ago, still available from The Works, leaning against her is a small
gum-ball/capsule machine charm in a hard, undecorated styrene.
To their right (the viewers left) is
another resin lump, a recent purchase from Penn
Plax and one of a set of Disney
stuff for fish tanks, note how much better finished it is than their treasure
chest, or Easter Island statues.
In front of that lump is a little
polypropylene 'Polly Pocket' type thing of the same Disney Ariel/Little Mermaid figurine, probably Bluebird/Kenner
for Disney Stores? The tatty-paint pair between the two Ariel's are
polyethylene Hong Kong lumps from the 1970's, I suspect they belong with a
group of rather eclectic sculpts which include a turtle with gwee-tar and a W-shaped
sea-serpent?
At the front is a clear-blue, polystyrene,
cocktail-glass decoration I rescued from a party in Berlin in the 1980's (and
one of the oldest-sitting non-25mm figures in my collection), unmarked but
likely a Hong Kong generic, although the Germans had lots of plastic novelty
makers a few years earlier, so it could be domestic production?
The other bright-blue tailed-girl is an
unmarked - probably 'China' - mermaid, similar to but not Soma (who's mermaids' are better sculpts), she's probably from a
generic 'Toob', rack-toy or possibly via cake-decorating? She's a modern
substitute PVC-like rubber/elastomer.
You can judge the scales from the
approximately 28mm Polly Pocket alike.
That's a mixed menagerie of mermaids!
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