How cool is this? Not-very I know . . .
it's a Hong Kong cheapie and the three pen-holders aren't even glued in-line
and facing the same way! But the figure is nice, although a larger-scaled
novelty which will only interest the more eclectic collectors, but then; I am
one, and I snapped it up as soon as I saw it.
Box is a bit water-damaged, and as well as
carrying the HCF mark of novelty tat (becoming
a regular here at SSW), it also carries the originator's mark (AH or HA) on the end flaps, although not sadly in the catalogue Bill B
recently posted online, but then it looks to be a 1970's item.
You can see from a comparison with the smaller
Chris/Adrian figure - from the previous post - that he's around the 90mm mark,
and he has a separate, soft polyethylene plug-in hat and a similar staff finial
which is not the correct design for a Yeoman Warder's 'Partisan', yet neither
is it the white tower or an obvious axe, nor does it resemble the halberds of
the Gentlemen At Arms or anything from the ceremonial elements of the HAC,
Artists Rifles and /or Loyal Archers (or whatever they're all called), so a bit
of artistic licence there, I feel?
The left-off-the-last-post shots; a bit of
vintage metal with two hollow-cast Britains
yeomen on the right and a Wendal
figure in aluminium to the left. The latter having a slip-in wire partisan, the
weapon's head being also cast in aluminium, with alternate base styles in the
second image, while I think the sandy-coloured base is the earlier of the Britains pair.
Due to the tourism nature of their market I
don't think either are particularly rare examples of their maker's figures.
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