T is for Two - Wild West Oddities;
You may remember this shot in a
'forthcoming from the storage collection' post I did back in the late
summer/early autumn of last year? When it went into storage it was about 40% of
my large-scale Wild West (along with the cowboy tray), now [they] are probably
no more than 20% of the unsorted and considerably less than 10% of my Wild
West, but the whole Wild West 'thing' is rather on the back-burner . . . and in
a big heap in the attic!
Anyway; there were some interesting things
in the shot, and I've arrowed two, it's the chap on the right I got a little .
. . err . . . 'chuffed' about, looks to be a bog standard Crescent Indian, but the light's making him look awfully like a very
'red' Indian!
No - he actually IS that red! I was talking
with John Begg and Steve Vickers at Sandown the next day and mentioned I'd
found this the day before and they thought it was a test-shot, but I wonder if
there was a contract-manufacture production-run of them, as I believe they do
turn-up, pretty regularly, if only from time to time?
As you can see the base is unmarked as well
and he has the sandy or sand-blasted surface detail which you find on some of
the Guards and Khaki Infantry and that I tend to think of as earlier production,
but without much evidence beyond a hunch!
What I was actually looking for - One of
the Vichy image-pirates was asking after one of these the other day and someone
mentioned Kinder, I knew I had them
somewhere, but both incomplete . . . have you got one - or the other - with the missing drum or
whatever plugs into the head . . . feather, full bonnet? Send a shot of it in
and it can be shared with everyone.
50 and 54mm approximately; I'm pretty sure
they are Italian with the smaller one supplied to Kinder, probably pantographed down from the larger one by the same
manufacturer to fit in the egg/capsules. They maybe Res Plastic but they are both unmarked and dozens of companies
supplied the novelty market in Italy, selling in capsules or little card boxes.
If it was Kinder it may have been around 2005/8 as I can't find it in the
2001 or 2004 O-Ei-A PreisfΓΌhrer, not that they are that accurate! But then Erwin 'makes-it-up-as-he-goes-along' Sell says I haven't got
a Library - so I must be lying altogether about having either of the volumes!
July 2022 - A similar but glossy, yellow one is now known to be by Locati from Italy; similar capsule toys.
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