Anyone who collects large scale space is
going to say yes to robots and aliens, even if they have large holes in their
heads! Copywrite to Wilton in
Illinois, but happy also to claim Hong Kong for their origin, they are novelty
cake candle-holders.
These will be contract manufactured in the
colony for the American firm, what is now known as 'OEM' (original equipment
manufacturing) contracting, back then it would have been 'exclusive' of some
kind; commissioner exclusive, exclusive contract, something like that, it just
means the contracting company is not allowing a generic run of 'their' product;
not 'made by' Wilton, but made for
Wilton - and nobody else.
Mr
Men pencil tops, along with the candle-holders
these were a find at May's Sandown Park toy fair, where I was supposed to be
having a quite time after PW, a
fortnight earlier, but still managed to find 17 rack toys, these two lots and a
handful or other stuff!
I recognise Mr Tickle and Mr Bump and
suppose the yellow one to be Mr Happy,
but I haven't a clue as to the green one - Mr silly hat? Oh! Is he Mr Silly, there was one, wasn't there?
I have to confess they sort of passed me by
as a kid; we had Beatrix Potter to
learn to read (new one; once you could read the last one through, out loud),
then it was on to Victor and Valiant comics with their cruiser-tanks
and Messerschmitt
fighters, or Look & Learn , Tell Me Why, and World of Wonder!
What I really like about these is the
stands, why don't you always get stands with a set of pencil tops? I wondered if maybe they were damaged spring-jumpers,
but there's no sign-of or place for either a spring or a sucker.
T is for Two . . . actually six!
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