T is for Two - Gem Sports

Not exactly as 'substantial' as I was thinking earlier, but hopefully it will occupy five-minutes of your afternoon with mildly interesting stuff and there's another scheduled for 6pm!

Gem, Gem Models-for-Culpitt and Culpitt's 'Netball' (basketball) players; GeModels on the left and the Hong Kong copies on the right, both pairs came with the illustrated poles, which are a Hong Kong piece, not the Ge-Model original, suggesting that Culpitt had commissioned the replacements and was sending them out to Baker's and Cook-shops, while they still had some Ge Model's stock left. Is that all the Gem spellings?!

Although usually sold from those compartmentalised Perspex or styrene towers, wall-hanging dispensers or small drawer cabinets, you do find various cake-decorations pre-packed in little bags - this is a crinkly, cellulose 'stamp-collectors' type with Gem originals in.

The Gem's are manufactured in a soft polyethylene plastic while the Asian clones are made in a hard polystyrene polymer, and note; it has a silver Gem pole, in both cases the HK-copy figures are smaller and less well-formed, but then these are not Mr. Musgrave's best work either!

You may by now have realised I've brought all the cake decorations together! I'm actually still sorting them all, but I was pleased to shoot this as I've been grabbing the pugilists whenever I've see them, for years now, each time thinking, "Have I got that colour?" or "Have I got one with white shorts?" (Durh!) or whatever, and never quite getting/ending-up with a pink-monkey!

I finally got a Caucasian the other day at Sandown, so this is - if not definitive - the best I can currently muster! Strangely he's the only one with painted gloves, but back then (1950/60's) most gloves were still heavy brown leather and as this was obviously a 'two colour' paint-job, making the gloves another colour would have entailed a third colour . . . As the late G. Bush once memorably stated - it's the economy . . . !

There are differences in the sculpting which might point to a two-cavity mould-tool?

Other side; plain base; box . . . -ers ticked!