These are they! Factory painted in a dark
chocolate brown (and blue!) on a pinkish-fawn base material, it's a hard
plastic; probably polystyrene, but some of the properties of a clean Bakelite, the sort used for visible
electrical's in domestic settings, plugs and switches. They are smallish, about
50-mil - I didn't measure them and they've been put away now!
The three on the left were also in the bag,
while I had the one on the right, all copies of Lido-made US originals. These
are the poorer copies, unpainted and in two variations, smooth bases and
hollowed bases with a HONG KONG mark; the smooth-based figures are marked on
the body - see below.
The better copies are hand-painted and can
be found in soft plastic or - as here, carried by Wilton's - in hard plastic, these are very similar to the American
Football set we looked at the other day/will look at in the next few days
(delete as applicable!) and might be from the same source. These also carry a
small HONG KONG on the base - see below.
Loose odds include a soft plastic version
of the previous figures, a figure who may or may not be a baseball player (he
has some properties in-common with some novelty soldiers I have with separate
clip-together belts and stuff), but I think he is, his heat-shrinkage damage
making it hard to read the details!
The other two are probably gum-ball
capsule-toy inserts, with a glossy 20-odd millimeter one and a larger, earlier
looking chap who I like as he's a
catcher (?) preparing the 'secret hand signal' for the pitcher!
Markings, or lack of them left-to-right
from the top, Ajax are blank, marked
and smooth based Lido copies, the
other marked, flat-base (Wilton) and
the three smaller novelties.
The body-mark of the other Lido-copy,
compared to the hollowed-base one; orange is another colour that's hard to
photograph, but it is there! Like American Footballers they are not numerous
this side of the pond; it's not our game!
Speaking of American Footballers - meet you here again in an hour-and-a-half!
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