Until quite recently (17th/18th, maybe 19th
Century?) the was no orange as a colour, things were either red or yellow (gold
in heraldry), and looking at this you can see where they were coming from, I
mean; clearly on one level it's orange, but equally and in certain light it's
really a bright scarlet!
11 pieces (I've lost a ski from the parts
shot!) come - still on the runner - in the little Bonux bag along with a
random, loose horse, and clip together with studs and holes. The driver has a
separate arm with literally; a 'whip hand' but lacks any feet, to speak of!
Most of the cake decoration sleighs are
beyond doing much with, due to their design or cartoonish appearance, but this
could easily be thrown against the German panzers at the gate of Moscow; winter
of '41 in a war-game.
Indeed; the floor's big enough to take a
mortar, with the crew on the first bench and ammo/supplies piled on the second
seat? The driver would need a helmet though or a little red star on his flat-cap,
give it a go - a self-propelled mortar . . . but you can't have mine; you
vandal!
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