It's Little (and not so little) Bo Peep,
and the other peeps, they've all lost their sheep, what the hell did they think
they were playing at? You take out sheep with no sheepdog, the outcome is a
foregone conclusion isn't it? Didn't they do a taking-out-sheep course, or
something? Jeez!
Gem Model's Bo Peeps vary in shade from cornflower- to powder-blue, and seem
to go from large and all-matt paint, to small and glossy, with the final issues
having no chalk or other paint-adhesion additive, but two extra paint colours .
. . swings & roundabouts?
They're
at your feet! I've posed the chalky Bo with the
larger (also chalky) lambs, and the smaller glossy Bo (a Culpitt commissioning thing?) with the smaller glossy lambs, I'm sure that's the
correct order!
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was as
white as snow, she threw it up into the air and was arrested, charged, found
guilty of animal cruelty and banned from keeping sheep for a period not less
than five years.
I haven't found a smaller one yet, the one
on the right looks smaller due to it's being a tad bent, and the effects of the
angle of the photograph, shown only to illustrate the fact that base colour
could vary.
Little Boy Blue, he lost his shoe? Lost his
horn? How could he lose his horn with all those pretty ladies in the meadow? Or
did he blow it . . . I think he blew-off his horn for the Ladies, didn't he? See
- I told you he was blue! He only went and brought a cow to the party . . .
what sort of idiot brings a cow to a picnic AND a lamb?
None of these lambs are tagged, I notice;
it's going to be madness trying to sort them all out at going-home time! Chaos
. . . the meadow in Nursery Land is bloody
chaos - I tell's yer!
Well . . . I found them - and I wasn't even
looking hard! The older, larger sculpts are on the outside, the smaller, later
sculpts are on the inside. In the catalogues (post 1979) Code F11 (which had
been 'Running Lamb') became 'Lambs', I suspect that it was a pair of the smaller
animals?
Lovely carded versions of Bo' and the Blue
Boy are to be seen in the Plastic Warrior magazine 'Special Publication' on
Gem (pp.11).
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