How it was presented on the feeBay,
contents had come loose due to perished rubber-bands, but it was otherwise in
one piece and an interesting combination of Britains
piracies, a Jean-copy totem-pole,
scaled-down, and the tee-pee.
The remains of the elastics along with the
marks on the three brown pieces, all having a simple HONG KONG. The tee-pee has
a MADE IN HONG KONG, which is double/part-triple stamped on the inside of the
rear wall of the tee-pee, and almost impossible to photograph, so you'll have
to believe me (except TJF the poor love; he'll have to wait until someone he
trusts holds his hand and confirms the detail!), but as a small scale
collector, for years, over years, I'd hoovered-up about ten of them, loose, and
I can assure you they all have the same mark.
Put together, as it was before old-age attacked
its integrity - lesson for us all there I fear! I've seen the other bits before but the Jean rip-off is new to me, it's quite reduced in size I think (I'll
do a comparison at some point) and painted, but then so were early Jean issues.
I'll be looking for a loose one now as having put it back together I can't put
it in the side-collection of totem poles.
All back 'in one piece' on the right; when
I take these apart I ease everything off the opened staples, leaving them in
one side of the card, and making a note of which-way round the bag was and
where the folds were.
When I put it back together I ease each
layer of the bag onto the staples, ensure any folds in the bag have laid-flat
correctly, then slip the other half of the card onto them and close them (the
staples) down again.
The main image shows what was probably an [earlier]
donor for this set's 'second-generation' copy teepee; it's larger, has
different painting, better etching of detail and a HONG KONG mark on the
outside rear. We have seen later, mono-coloured versions of this tent from Rado and someone else here in the past,
while full-size copies also exist.
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
Brwreakshit's been-kicked....further down-the-roaaaad!
Happy Birthday to me!
And it was days ago so none of that mawkish
shit in the comments! But I'm off the hook now, it can be someone else's day,
if it ever happens!
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