I dug the old 'other poultry' box out of
the garage and found a Fontanini
goose in there! Sorting the TBS stuff into the box and blow-me there was a
matching turkey! I have no idea if they are from a farm series or make-weight,
non-speaking, bit-part actors in a Nativity set? But they are rather nice,
probably not Simonetti's work; they are fuller-figured, and the sculpting
'fluffier' than his stuff tends toward.
Meanwhile I picked these up about six
months or a year ago (from Adrian I think), they had a little label in their
bag saying Ohio Art and I wondered if
they might actually be Auburn, but Auburn's are slightly different,
although I guess one influenced the other - were Ohio the plagiarists?
The two lots together; while the Fontanini are big, the smaller birds
from Ohio are bigger, you could tuck
that chicken under Action man's arm and he wouldn't look incongruous . . . well; he'd
look like a chicken-thief!
Not the easiest material to photograph,
off-white polyethylene, but I did what I could; they even have the little
tick/crab/spider with its six legs!
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