S is for Several Similar Sleighs

Just a quickie really, as you may have noticed this week has been a  bit slow, and while there's a bunch of stuff cropped, collaged, ordered and [nearly] ready to go, all the posts lack blurb, so I'm not sure what's going to get up before Tuesday, but a rest is as good as a break! Anyway, this was started last year and I finished it the other night.

Three seasonal sleighs, intended to slice through fondant or get stuck-fast in royal iceing, and two copying the original, but which is the original? The one at the front is marked CHINA, so has to be modern, but I suspect a Hong Kong version will be out there, and is probably the original. By co-incidence, the sizes are approximately N, HO/OO or O-Gauge!

As I mentioned; the sleigh is marked CHINA, Santa' is unmarked and both are polystyrene, while the deer and reins are polyethylene, with the left-hand deer marked 44 (x2) & 55, the right-hand animals bare 10, 20 & 77, all marks are found in the top of a hollow body-cavity, like Hong Kong horses.

The whole of this assembly is in polyethylene, the sleigh marked MADE IN HONG KONG NO 33C, nothing else is marked. Quality is poor and the sleigh has been shortened in proportion, so looks stumpier and the deer are quite cartoony.

A shot I took last year which may as well go here as I forgot to take the teeny-tiny one apart and shoot it unassembled, and it's now been put away and I want this finished and out!

I can tell you it's (the N-Gauge one) marked with a reversed 'R' and part 'C' which can be seen on the sleigh, there may be other fragments under the lump of hot-glue/wax obscuring the under-floor, the sleigh is hard polystyrene, the deer are soft polyethylene and the (upper, clear) reins are a nylon or rayon; like fishing line or that clothing security-tag type polymer.

Not following the same sleigh design, but 'based on' if the colour-scheme is anything to go by, this is a single moulding, and is probably aping an earlier chalkware or bisque type cake decoration.