Did I mention this the other day? It may
have been in an eMail to someone, anyway this came back from September's
Sandown Park toy fair with me, I think Adrian had put it to one-side for me,
and it's a little charmer!
Around 25mm-compatible (allowing for an
air-filled rubber suit), and blow-moulded celluloid or cellulose acetate (so
probably Japanese), he is weighted in his feet and was probably one of the
up-and-down with a cork's pressure type of bottle-novelties?
Not long after the little-one joined
the . . . skool? I think 'a skool of
divers'! Brian B sent the shot on the left, his latest find in the cannon of
air-hose, bath-toy, divers, here compared to the old packaging (on the right, also
sent by Mr. Berke; a year or two ago) from the same Tobar stable.
Brian has also sent this in Support of the
ITLAPD Captain Pugwash shot you may remember; he has shelf-captaincy of a right
old motley crew of victorian sailors and deep-sea fish-tank ornaments!
Looking for something else I found this
chap in with all the naval, marine and assault-boat stuff, when the divers have
their own box, which we have pretty-much mined for it's goodies, over the
years, so I thought I'd better shoot him now while he was here as it were!
'E
has a long hole up 'is jacksey Pa! It's too thin
for a pencil, so I suspect either a stick to anchor him into the aggregate at
the bottom of a fish tank, or an aeration-hose for the same end-destination, as
he is not dusty; those pale marks in the folds and crevices are limescale which
didn't come-off with a cursory wash.
Finally; and because they have gone together
in the past; and because I knew I'd find a use for that race-game central
divider, I give you the gate-guardians at the Magical Museum of Multicoloured
Miniature Mersibles, Sub.
One from Chris with all-four of its sticky-out
bits intact, one from a job-lot, 'streamlined' for err . . . silent-running!
And both - new colours!
Cheers A, B and C!
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