H is for Hard-plastic Hussar!

It's beginning to look as if just about everything Fontanini produced (most of which they themselves produced in several sizes, materials or finishes) between about 1965 and 1985 were pirated in Hong Kong (in several sizes, materials or finishes), this is yet another!

From the commoner sculpt-set of Napoleonic troop types and in the style of the blow-moulded knights we've looked-at in the past, the main difference is that this isn't a blow-mould, being a solid, very-dense, polyethylene lump. Finish is the same as the knights though with a metallic bronze/gold dry-brushed over a flat black.

Over eight inches with the base the figure is a good seven-odd.

The base does seem to be slightly hollow, which may be due to shrinkage (the result of injecting such a large piece), or the use of a blow-mould/Rotary-mould tool with a large shot of plastic designed to be slightly hollow for cost, but tough-enough to survive handling? The little sticker is a generic version of the ones used by HCF, but lots of from-HK import novelties had the same or similar, still do, but now they read 'CHINA'!

The depth of the plinth and strange pinch to one end may be a sign that the statue was pleased in some kind of receiver or holder of some kind, maybe a piece of kitsch furniture or a lamp stand? The Sabretache has a florid, copperplate 'A' on both sides - as per the Fontanini original.