The family shot! Manurba's nativity set is a sharply-sculpted, traditional group of
eight figures, the animals being drafted-in or provided from the based, brown or gray sets
of farm (sheep, goats cow, donkey) and zoo (camel) sets available
previously/separately from Jean Höefler (who also carried these figures with their stable/Krippen) and as other toy lines; so are not
illustrated in this post.
The LBJ appears to have been pinned-out for
the ants or something and both parents are looking slightly vexed by the
situation. They'd be better occupied swaddling the little chap, before he gets
a chill (or eaten by ants) and we all need another pan-dimensional mega-being
to believe in!
The third chap looks to be a Barberry/Corsair
type, which at least places him in North Africa or the Levant and - therefore -
slightly more realistic in a set which always makes the same white-Euro-Christian-centric,
historical-mistakes! Strangely - in reference to today's other post - this chap
has some similarities with and was clearly lifted from the Nardi 70 and 100mm plug-together versions.
Not having to worry about the animals, Manurba made up the mould's eight-sculpt,
cavity-count for what was likely to be a single-shot tool with the ubiquitous
shepherd and a serving wench, she being also more in the Italian presepe
tradition.
Both are standing over small saplings'
cut-trunks, presumably over in the Holy Land they took trees indoors at census
time and hung stuff in them? Even before the land was Holy, although it is full
of caves, so maybe . . . !
Marked W.Germany
and with a variety of hollows or mould-tool release-pin cavities clearly
visible, that's them, there; Manurba's
nativity set.
2 comments:
Do these figures have some weight to them?
Yes Jan, or as much as any, they are quite solid lumps with the cloaks an'all!
H
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