T is for Two - Blue Box Mini Farm Sets

A couple of the smaller-scale sets from Blue Box here, and two civilian farm sets, but not the Britains piracy stuff from the 54mm farms, but the mini ones we looked at the loose animals from an RTM or two ago.

Box; about four inches square and the artwork places it among the early 1960's ranges. Contents list is accurate, but the blub is so much salesman's hot air, as is the 'Plastic Toy Series' line; they didn't have series' of any other material at the time!

Also seen in Marx 'Majestic Series' sets (as supplied by Blue Box . . . or Tai Sang!), these are mostly Merit copies (all fencings, horses and cows), with the pigs possibly Blue Box sculpts (they were also issued by Redbox) and the house being one of many, many Hong Kong copies of any one of several German, Austrian or French model railway trackside accessory producers.

The figures are more interesting, as they might have been copied by Marx first (for their Miniature Masterpiece farm sets) and then passed to Blue Box during the Majestic Series negotiations, but equally Blue Box may have pantographed them down from their own 54mm piracies, with Marx doing some parallel 'lifting' straight from Britains, whose figure sculpts they actually are!

A smaller set, pretty-much the same layout as the Majestic Series set we sawhere, but bagged with a header-card. We saw similar sets with fewer contents, both branded as Success (WH Cornelius - now PlayWrite) and unbranded generics, in the loose figure post. The pigs have escaped - they do that! While Britains features more obviously with the inclusion of copies of their lambs and rabbits in 1:32nd scale.

Note; I may in the past have described the Majestic Series as the Sunshine Series, this was a Wild West line also supplied by Blue Box to Marx, so if I have - soz!