A late'ish (for that era's production or
course, the company is still going!) version of the 50mm US infantry in their
unpainted form along with the ubiquitous Blue
Box copy of Crescent's WWI 18lbr field-artillery
piece and a set/runner of gold-bronze shells. A shilling was pricey for 1969;
we were getting - intermittently - sixpence . . . if we 'were good' and if it
was 'the holidays'!
Dated to May 1969 (it's just had its
fiftieth birthday!), and stated (in Mr. James Opie's unmistakable hand) to have
been purchased in Stephens of
Droitwich; oh, for a time-machine and ten minutes in that emporium with a
handful of sixpences - huh!
This is the one I
mentioned the other day as possibly being also the soirt of card some of the
ACW sets may have turned-up in?
The [clearly not that] hard-to-find small
scale (only scale for these!) resistance fighters, who always seem to come accompanied
by a Bedford RL troop-carrier/GS lorry. The artwork on the mounting card is the
same, but there are differences between the card's other graphics, with the
all-celluloid/cellophane box having the information from the outer of the
window box round the sides on the insert, while the insert for the window box
has plain blue edges.
I say that as you might otherwise think is
was a simple matter of changing the outer, but in fact they are tweaked
versions of each-other. The sample bottom right (no price label) is a spare,
for swaps, should anyone want it; something of similar age/value/condition will
secure - eMail me, in the next week or so.
A comparison between the two to prove to
those who think they didn't exist; that they did, although - of course - I had
Blogged them, as Blue Box, several
years before a certain newbie started informing us - as fact - that they weren't!
Thanks go to James Opie for some of these too.
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