So I've had a few days off - Crimbo stuff to do - and the world doesn't seem to have changed greatly, Mark-of-men-of-tin' seems to have invented a new country, which is fun! And I've got a few bits to schedule today for the next few days, but I'm easing off for Christmas, now I can see I won't manage 600+ on the posting total!
Picked
this up the other day for reasons that will become obvious and it may still be
findable if you fancy one, however - I can't remember what the title of the
publication was?
One of those carded novelty sets taped to a
kid's magazine, you get an Iwako
style ladybird, two of the two-part polystyrene figures common on these mag's
and a hiding tree, all credited to Kennedy
Enterprises of Avon. I think it was a CeeBeebies mag, but it went in a bin
so quickly I didn't register it!
Peter Rabbit and Mr. Todd, the
Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman! If nothing else they will join the Phidal and Timpo figures in a future Beatrix Potter figures' round-up.
But this is what decided me on an impulse
purchase which had me buying a five-year-old's publication on the way back from
town the other day and dumping it unread in the bin outside McColl's . . . a 'hiding tree', which
while being an amusing novelty plaything for five-year olds, also looks like .
. .
. . . the sort of thing both sides would
hide near their trenches under cover of artillery barrages in World War One.
Here posed with a South American copy of an Elastolin composition figure, you
can see it would look better - or just as good - with a 54m figure!
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