H is for How They Come In

Wednesday left me loaded with goodies, after purchases in most on the charity shops, ten minutes up the high street (I'm a bloke; in-scan-grab-pay-out, I don't mess about) added several books to the library, a 2nd hand copy of District 9 on DVD and this little-lot!

A Board game (£3) and two 'after' Fontanini Chinoisery statuettes, I say after as they are both unmarked and while the bases (polystyrene) and steel screws are reminiscent of the Italian maker's output, the two figures (polyethylene) are of poorer finish, so I suspect Hong Kong despite the lack of a marking; they were three-quid the pair.

One of those awful costume dolls; 'Empire Made' almost illegible on the gold-card ends, the whole sealed so you'd have to destroy the container to get him out, but he IS a lifeguard, so into the collection he goes; they were only asking 30p!

A handful of animals for 50p rounded-off the loot.

The animals were an odd assortment . . . two Impro pre-historic's, I have a tub of them somewhere which I have seen a couple of times, next time I see it I'll combine with the dozen or so I had accrued here and we'll have a proper look at them, a generic hippo' and a Playmobile wild boar made up the self-seal bag.

There was supposed to be six figures in the box, there wasn't! There was, in fact - 47 figures/36 sculpts! Again I have a whole tub of these so I'll return to them in the fullness of time, I think these are all from the first 60 of what became 240+ items I think, again; I have the notes on a dongle!

Oi . . . soldier! Haircut!

Then today - at time of writing Thursday 30th - I picked this little fella up, although at 95-mil (all-in) hardly 'little', he's a tree decoration who's lost his hanger/loop and will go in the box with all the other Bearskin'ed Guards.