Recent acquisitions either side of an older
key-ring from storage, the resin one on the left is quite well done, with a
subtle facial paint in a porcelain doll style and probably pretty contemporary
if not actually still on sale back in 'The Valleys'!
The bell is only there because it was cheap,
I won't be building a collection of them; there are thousands! My Granny
(Walter) had a collection of them on her Mousy-Thompson sideboard, fifteen or
so, which she used to buy one per year on their annual holiday to Blackpool (I
guess they took day trips over the border!) and when we were kids we would ring
them all and line them up by tone, next morning they would all be back where
they started - poor Granny!
Anyway I don't know what happened to them
when she passed away, so I thought I should have one for sentimental reasons
and when I saw one in a charity shop for 50p, it had my name on it.
The key-ring is a Hong Kong sourced, and
marked, piece of PVC Vinyl-rubber for the tourist kiosk/gift-shop trade of the
1970's and is a not too shabby 54mm sculpt. I need to give her a pitchfork and
a dozen half-starved, sea-sick, revolutionary French, for her to frog-march
down to the town square . . . pun? What pun!
We've looked at another Welsh lady here in the past and I meant to add the Charbens
one to this post, but forgot to, so we can look at her another day!
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