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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

S is for Sun Fung . . . Not! (Probably?)

Well, I mean Sun Fung might be a stand-alone manufacturer, but the lack of a logo in the full page ad' suggests they were probably some sort of 'middle-man', you know the type of thing; contract-agents, Hong Kong-based wholesalers or shippers of some kind? The stuff seems pretty generic and to have been seen in other guises?

Fire and Rescue; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Firemen; Hi Quality Toys; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Made in Hong Kong; No. 813; No. 818; No. 819; No. 821; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Toy Figures; Police Figures; Police Toy Figurines; Policemen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sun Fung; Sun Fung Plastic Pty; Vintage Hong Kong Toys; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
Anyway it's another name in the cannon (and the Tag List); let's have a look . . . the above was cropped out of the larger inset-image and shows some figures as 'added-interest' or 'enhanced play-value' accessories for what look to be all or mostly plastic vehicles, and it's the firefighters we are going to concentrate on today.

Fire and Rescue; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Firemen; Hi Quality Toys; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Made in Hong Kong; No. 813; No. 818; No. 819; No. 821; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Toy Figures; Police Figures; Police Toy Figurines; Policemen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sun Fung; Sun Fung Plastic Pty; Vintage Hong Kong Toys; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
I only have two I can say may be from the Sun Fung stable and one of them doesn't have the necessary paint! Both are manufactured in a softish polyethylene; one a match for those illustrated above, the unpainted 'other' being possibly a later one?

Fire and Rescue; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Firemen; Hi Quality Toys; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Made in Hong Kong; No. 813; No. 818; No. 819; No. 821; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Toy Figures; Police Figures; Police Toy Figurines; Policemen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sun Fung; Sun Fung Plastic Pty; Vintage Hong Kong Toys; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
But . . . I do have these, in three-colour paint, over pink polystyrene and with an extra pose (we will study in a mo'), they are not quite the same with the bases on the 2nd (fire-axe guy) and 3rd (air-tank guy) figures from the left turned 90° from the Sun Fung ones, the pose it's hard to make-out in the advert' is the carrying a medium-sized (age 7-10) child guy, while the kneeling pose on the far right is . . .

Fire and Rescue; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Firemen; Hi Quality Toys; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Made in Hong Kong; No. 813; No. 818; No. 819; No. 821; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Toy Figures; Police Figures; Police Toy Figurines; Policemen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sun Fung; Sun Fung Plastic Pty; Vintage Hong Kong Toys; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
 . . . carrying a baby? Carrying a dog or cat . . . or other pet (large gerbil?), carrying a small monkey? A piece of vital fire-fighting equipment? The Mystical Zoldorathian Girdle of Power? He's carrying something and has chosen to kneel on a piece of debris!

Fire and Rescue; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Firemen; Hi Quality Toys; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Made in Hong Kong; No. 813; No. 818; No. 819; No. 821; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Toy Figures; Police Figures; Police Toy Figurines; Policemen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sun Fung; Sun Fung Plastic Pty; Vintage Hong Kong Toys; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
These two sub-Lucky copies aren't the orange ones above, although the kneeling guy in the advertisement seems to have been reversed in the studio so would look similar to this chap, the standing one has a different base.

In preparing these recent posts I've found around (it was dodgy counting) 59 samples of un-ID'd road-workers/mechanics in the small-to-medium scales box, some several hundred figures, and 20-odd in the larger-scale tubs, so plenty to go on and I added two samples (four figures) from Chris and Peter from the last few months, along with two Blue Box variants; also from Peter, and one day we'll have a session on the figures rather than the brands!

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