Ppffh is for Phidal Fairies

Another of the part-sets of Phidal which turn-up in charity shops, these were a September purchase, and I'm missing a fat cat (who may have since come-in, in another lot!), a ladybird and two other fairies, a gold/yellow one in a long ball-gown and another brown one with a red/orange handbag!

It's OK Marm, I've got the interloper;

these board-game players get everywhere!

Phidal on the right (I think it's the eponymous Tinkerbell?); allowing for the fact that A) she's wearing eight-inch stiletto's and B) is totally fictional, she'll do for 54mm at a push, and 58 or 60mm perfectly!

The sample as found, like most Phidal, they are nice sculpts well painted for the price bracket 5/10-quid, Dollars, Euros . . . everywhere! When a sample is as clean as this you do wonder if the missing figures were lost, or kept as favourites?

Front and back covers for a little more visual info! What is starting to annoy me is the number of people selling these for twice their face value (or more) on evilBay, claiming they are 'unknown' or 'vintage' or - the great favourite - 'cake decorations'.

If it's one lot among a bunch of unrelated clothes lots, books etc... you can understand; they genuinely don't know what they are and maybe hoovered them up at a car-boot sale (or Charity shop!) looking to turn a little profit, but when they have all the sets from the last three years, on a drop-down-menu, single-listing, they are simply profiteering!