C is for Confederate Rack Toys

Or Confederati! These are so generic they are archetypal, yet they are distinctive enough to be ID'd if they ever turn-up in a old HKTDC catalogue/Toy Fair yearbook, so one lives in hope!

I'm assuming it's Italian - the Confederati? If it's Hungarian or Slovenian or somewhere else, for 'Confederate' I stand to be corrected! Italian toy soldiers usually use Sudisti (Southerners), but we use Confederates, Rebels, Johnny Reb's  and 'The South', so presumably other tongues have several monikers too?

We looked at couple of foot figures of these, loose, as part of a minor round-up/overview of ACW swoppet-types years ago here at Small Scale World, and I commented at the time that they were more unique than some of the others, but had very long legs compared to their bodies, I can now report (as you can see) that the mounted figures suffer the same affliction!

Is it just me or does the artwork look more 'Westpoint' than confederate rebels? The legs, horse and bases are polyethylene, while the bodies, heads, saddle, blanket and horse furniture are PVC, the heads having moulded-in or integral kepis, not the usual plug-in or pop-on headdresses.

Foot base has a HONG KONG, the mounted base the full MADE IN HONG KONG, neither shot is that good, but photographing jade-green through cellophane is neigh-on impossible!