The 'odds' first and from the left; The
Doll which came in a Charity shop purchase just before Christmas, only because
I'd got the same doll in a household cavalry uniform a few weeks earlier, but I
have no good excuse for that prior purchase! Next to him on the plinth is a wooden
pop-up, which was from Wilkinson's (Wilco) I think, I also think we've seen
it before?
The third figure is [more!] resin, and only
joined the team a couple of weeks ago, Peter Evans gave him to me in London the
other day, he's presumably a current or recent Tourist thing, but -
interestingly - is in the uniform of the old Elizabethan tower-guards, although
at that time they would have been guarding the city gates, Bishops' palaces and
Windsor castle as well - I imagine?
The fourth was among the first of Britains 'New Metal' figures back when my brother and I were just getting out
of toys in favour of hard rock, beer and cigarettes! He has a small square base
in a Deetail style, but is himself all-metal
with a plastic partisan that seems impossible to replace.
Then the Hong Kong one we saw recently and
lastly a little PVC/vinyl-rubber key-ring tourist keepsake (his loop's been
removed - it arched over the top of his headdress) I picked-up years ago as a
small scale curiosity.
The Charbens
one is an odd cove, he has the sort of googly-bug-eyes you might expect to find
on Hong Kong sub-piracies, not home-grown figures, but there you go! The
unpainted figure is a re-issue and the one on the far right seems to be an
attempt to re-ignite the spark of tourist trinkets inherent is the figure,
using the recent re-issues, but may just be a gloss home-paint in the
Hollow-cast 'Toy Soldier' style.
The group together make a nice sample of
different treatments, which I've lined-up in what might be the age order, with
earlier, better painted to the left and latter re-issues to the right?
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