The plunder pile; Apart from the bits we'll
be looking at in a minute highlights include an ivory camel (Chinese or
Indian?), a blow-moulded buffalo/bison (probably Japanese), some Crescent hollow-cast, some HK circus
gap-fillers, some railway figures in metal and plastic from several makers and
a Tudor Rose jeep. Bags of animals
include Airfix HO-OO copies, nice
unpainted Hong Kong and more Olá ice
cream premiums.
Yeah! The problem of having an unwieldy
queue of articles and part-articles, is that by the time you Blog something
you've shot, you've already Blogged it with newer shots! But he's in
'closer-up' this time, a weighted, blow-molded, novelty diver around 30/35mm.
What on earth to say about this? I am assuming,
one of the recent Corgi-branded,
ready-made, die-cast aircraft, of which there have been hundred in the last
decade or so? I initially wondered if he might be from the old '80 Days' balloon
kit by . . . whoever it was by - Pyro, Monogram, Revell? But it
appears to be factory-painted and the ladder - at least - is in a nylon or PP,
harder to tell of the pilot, as he's covered in paint!
Anyone recognise the figure? Many thanks to
Adrian Little for finding him for me, but what to do with him; there is no 'Figures
above or below aircraft - Unknown' zone, in the collection!
All the space or sci-fi elements, the -
probably - Argentinian monster from Godzilla
or Atom Boy or whatever Japanese
1950's anime he comes from, has been seen here before, but after he'd been out
for quite a number of shows I convinced Adrian I could give him the best home!
The rocket is actually Hong Kong, but a cut
above the usual two-part-with-cap-firer affair; having semi-flat or relief
astronaut-sculpts appliquéd to the hull, a more ornate than usual
engines-skirt, and a heavy nose with plastic cover for external fitting of the
caps.
The two smaller figures may be Cracker
prizes (but not the set mentioned in PW magazine which are different sculpts
and a little taller. In metallic blue and green polystyrene, they could be US
Dimestore, the aforementioned Christmas cracker fare, or French copies? And may
be based on the Cherilea hollow-cast
downscales of Archer's biggies?
While the truck is marked, but I didn't
note the marking (might have been Ideal?),
and have now put it away, so we'll have to get the maker when I blog a bunch of
them together one day. Looks like it came from a space-port type play-set, but
was probably also sold singly as a dimestore stand-alone, and was a find from
the 'temporary market' on the terrace before the doors opened.
This is rather nice, but I can't get a
maker for it, it's a bit Jean-like,
and is in soft polyethylene, but I just couldn't get it to stick with any ideas
I had. Similar - in some respects - to the Vitacup
figurines, it's well sculpted and the antlers have survived; so not brittle. It's quite Linde premium-like, and you can find it passed-off as such, but it's not listed on STS and lacks the Linde mark, it's nice anyway . . . any ideas?
2022 - now known to be Siku, soft ethylene versions of the Vitacup, with some different poses (the unknowns in one of the Vitacup posts!) More work needed to work out which is which, pose wise, but material wise soft = Siku, hard = Vitacup which Siku must have supplied?
Floor sweepings; the erzgebirge tree was nice,
and does anyone recognise the glue-in (but possibly factory painted) feathers
for a native American's headdress? Two light-sabre's; one Lego, the other from an action figure, a possibly early Meccano crane block/hook and a ball
puzzle were also worth the reach down to the floor!
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