H is for How They Come In - Last Week

So-  to the parcel I picked-up last week; in the main courtesy of Peter's finds at the Widnes Collectors and Car Boot Fair, although I suspect he added a few bits from elsewhere; the two carded Chinatoy sets for starters!

First sorting; bits we won't look at closer, below, include a Soma Robin Hood (top, yellow), a couple of US police (from or via Jaru?), a stack of Chinatroops marked SH which I'm pretty sure are the Shin Hing I shelfied a year or two ago (large tubs in Smyths).

While top right is a lovely thing; a Peruvian worry-doll type couple, but clearly a couple (they are stitched together!) and formed into a pin-badge, presumably so you can mutter you worries to them as you go about your day, rather than shoving them under a pillow?

The hippo' is nice, but unmarked and of a style (in PVC) which could put him back in the 70's or have him being made in the last few years? The key-rings are getting their own post! The knights are Timpo copies, but marked China (there are earlier HK versions) so probably, technically; Toyway copies! However, both horses are complete and with caparisons, so a nice sample.

Piles moved about, so I could take a few photo's and my assistant came to see if she could help, as you saw the other shot in the sequence last Saturday, you know as well as I do what her idea of help is - bury your head in a  jiffy bag and go to sleep!

The two bears are bisque or a similar fine, sandy porcelain, but - more importantly - marked Taiwan, which is nice as I have very little from there. The tiger is a current Kinder Egg premium (although they're not really premiums as you pay for what you get!), and one of the more realistic ones, so are quite cartoony.

Three earlier (2013) Phidal's, DC I think (Superman characters?); two nice, but late and poor finish, Hong Kong copies of Britains Herald Indians, an air-or-oven curing clay snowman which could be a kids home-made, but has signs of a few semi-professional 'techniques' so may be an attempt at a commercial/craft product?

On the way to the sorting office to pick-up the parcel I found one of those free pencils for order slips from Screwfix, and put it in my coat-pocket, as you do; waste-not, want not, so when the monkey pencil-top was revealed ten minutes later, I wanted not for a posing instrument!

He's also a consummate example of modern over-moulding with black highlights on pink bits over a brown 'ground' and no paint.

A tiny glazed duckling! What else can I say, it's tiny, it's glazed ceramic and it's a duckling, possibly a Khaki Campbell with those markings!?

Four Smurfs which I think are Kinder and a pile of similar cobalt critters, which I have obscured, as I already had a post on these in the queue, having found - initially two - now five in total, and thinking I might be looking for a sixth was very pleased to find these; hoping I might find the 'missing pose' among a handful of assumed duplicates (recognising at least one).

Only to find six of them are new, so McDonald's (for it is they who are responsible) must have issued two (or more) tranches? There is something else interesting about them, but that's for the forthcoming post.

Thank you Peter, what we haven't looked at here will be sorted  like-with-like to build on future posts, and both the key-rings and Smurfs are a'forthcoming!