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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

F is for Follow-up . . . to some stuff we just had!

When posting the 'big set' from Peter Evans the other day, I was talking from the position of thinking these had been posted previously; they hadn't! Taken almost exactly a year ago (14/08/18), they obviously fell by the wayside, so we'll quickly look at them to make slightly more sense of the other-day's post . . . and to make up for the lack of figures in the first post!

Ackerman; Army Men; Army Set; Armymen; Fritz Helmet; GI's; Hawkins's Bazaar; HTI; Made in China; Made in Hong Kong; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy Month; Rack Toys; RTM; Shilling Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Toys; Strawberry Group; Supreme; Tiger Imports; Tiger Toys; Tobar toys; Toy Major; US Infantry; US Marines; US Plastic Soldiers;
Obviously the new - mid-sized - polyethylene figures aren't here, but the other two types are, and this is otherwise a duplicate of the fuller image we saw last Friday.

Ackerman; Army Men; Army Set; Armymen; Fritz Helmet; GI's; Hawkins's Bazaar; HTI; Made in China; Made in Hong Kong; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy Month; Rack Toys; RTM; Shilling Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Toys; Strawberry Group; Supreme; Tiger Imports; Tiger Toys; Tobar toys; Toy Major; US Infantry; US Marines; US Plastic Soldiers;
The original larger sized figures all share a base-marking/code which is the same on all the poses unpainted and some of the painted ones. It reads MADE IN CHINA 593 - [A-F] with each figure possessing its own (cavity number?) code; 1-6, the numerals reverse-stamped and matching the A-F

Ackerman; Army Men; Army Set; Armymen; Fritz Helmet; GI's; Hawkins's Bazaar; HTI; Made in China; Made in Hong Kong; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy Month; Rack Toys; RTM; Shilling Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Toys; Strawberry Group; Supreme; Tiger Imports; Tiger Toys; Tobar toys; Toy Major; US Infantry; US Marines; US Plastic Soldiers;
The exception - some of the painted figures lack the main mark - I don't think has any significance, but if the other (currently marked) poses turn-up similarly blank, or if the same (unmarked) figures turn-up with marks it may point to multiple contracts, one of which might have stipulated no marks? All the smaller yellow/black ones PVC aren't marked, neither are the new polyethylene ones in the previous post.

As to branding, the large PVC sets were originally handled by Ackerman here I think (who have a history of importing from Supreme/SP Toys), the tank we looked at - shelfied with the larger painted versions - was Ackerman or HTI (but I can't find the post), while the base numbering is similar to some stuff contracted by Toy Major, Strawberry Group and Tiger (again; all known for connections with SP Toys), so I'd expect them to turn up in Shilling sets and possibly past Tobar output? They're not rare!

The smallest set (black and yellow PVC) got their own post I think, but I can't find that either (did I forget to tag a rack-toy post in the past?), and the new ones were posted with some tenuous branding on Friday last)

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