This is the Plasty set; a resting foal or pony, three sheep in two poses, ex-Britains farmer (reduced to around 40mm)
and a goat, along with piracies of Merit's
fencing in white plastic with rustic artwork of a generic European nature, the
hanging-card being more Franco-Spanish, the inner-liner having the look of
Northern Europe or the Low Countries.
The horse replaced by a cow in the Ri-Toys original, these (the cow and horse)
are better examples than some, but only equal in finish and decoration to the
wider-found Blue Box mini farm sets
they are - basically - pretending to be. There's also a third pose of sheep; a
ram, all three based on Britains
sculpts, as are the cow and pony/foal.
This is one of those posts that reveals the
wheels-within-wheels that is the toy industry, with everyone seeking a slice of
a small, finite pie which peters out earlier and earlier with each generation,
they will happily get into bed with each-other for a shekel . . . as Airfix probably already owned Plasty by the time the upper set hit
stores (the two sets aping the earlier sets by Blue Box, as supplied to Marx),
yet they (Airfix) had their own
small-scale farm set which Plasty
could have used? With or without paint!
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