F is for Follow-up - Novelty Highlanders

Having looked at a pencil-sharpener here among the key-rings and things, I've since found a pencil-top . . . all I need is a highland piper eraser - there must be some - and I'll have a full set for the start of the new term!

Rather than the splayed-legs and 'up the jacksey' of a lot of these figural pencil-tops (He-Man, DC superheroes, The A-Team's BA Baracas), this one has been given a Dalek 'skirt' to hide his modesty! And - despite being a several-generations-down-the-line clone - you can still clearly see the Britains Herald DNA in the pose.

40mm from the bottom of the Dalek skirt to the top of the Busby and originally manufactured in a softish PVC, which is hardening with age.

Further to the Hilco post I found a pin and it fits, I know it looks as bit loose in the photograph, but I can assure you it fits snuggly, like a glove, settling-in with a nice, satisfying click! I suspect however the original was a little longer though; this is a standard, modern seamstress's pin.

When we were kids (those of you of a certain age will remember, but for the younger loyal readers-) there used to be charity 'flag days', where you gave to a representative in the street with a donation and were given a token of your gesture (a bit like WHW!), usually a flag (I remember white ensigns for the RNLI and wings for the RAF Benevolent Fund), and they had longer pins to deal with the paper/flag and the giver's lapel, I suspect Hilco used one of those for a slightly more realistic length? The pinned-flags were replaced in the 1980's with stickers, and then - in recent times - the dreaded, door-stepping 'chuggers'.

They may well have blunted the end though?