Cake decoration seems to be the final
arbiter in how many fishing types we end up with, and past cake decoration
rather than current I fear, but trends are a moveable feast and fashions
change, small dioramas where long-ago replaced by piles of fruit in gelatine or
fancy icing waterfalls!
From the left we have a typical 1960/70's
cake decoration (marked SK.No 169.S) in
hard polystyrene plastic (with a soft polyethylene rod) of the kind carried by Culpitt here and Wilton across 'the pond'. then two Lik Be (LB) fishermen,
one a harpoonist from a whaler (not a country Mr. President!) and one
sports-fisherman with a huge tuna over his shoulder, then the Gemodels figure also carried by Culpitt, but not - as far as I know - Wilton; all three polyethylene and finally a PVC key-ring novelty,
sans hoop.
George Musgrave's Gem fisherman; many colours (as per the golfer and diver figures),
and he seems to have given-up casting his hook in favour of adopting the
aboriginal practice of spearing the fish with the thin-end of his rod . . .
and; let's be honest; he looks very pleased with the undeniable result!
Back when I was a small scale figure
collector (and a bit of a philistine) I used to remove the key-ring loops! It
still needs touching-up with a bit of
paint, but these days I wouldn't indulge in such vandallistic practice!
Spellcheck says I just invented 'vandallistic', should it have one el or two?
Questions, questions!
Fishermen!
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