Having seen my two grow to three in the
article preparation and five by the time I'd finished, all foot; it now seems I
have one of the mounted figures, and with the two feathers not the lasso pose I
think I've seen as a cowboy? Maybe they issued it as both by removing the feathers
from some as cowboys? Anyway it means they're not outnumbered by the cowboys.
Neither he nor the horse are marked as far as I can see.
Below him is what appears to be a factory
painted, Hong Kong copy of the Crescent
firebrand figure, but via Texas and
following the pattern of theirs with a single foot-plug - removed from the
right-hand example, sadly neither example came with a base, but it may be he
plugs into a wagon or something?
Hoovered-off feebleBay back in 2012, this
is marked APS rather than Texas, and is very different to the Britains/Timpo type arctic sled at the
other end of the link in the last post, this being more Santa's sleigh (. . .
or a dog-taxi!), which is ironic as Theo sent me the original shot by way of a
Santa follow-up!
APS is the parent or umbrella for Politoys,
who also used Policars and Texas as brands and became Polistil (when switching to die-cast;
steel=stil?), as all abbreviations stand for something APS must stand for something but as far as I know, no one as deciphered
it yet, the S may be for S.p.a.. (like our Ltd, or the German GmbH or USA's LLC
etc...), the P probably Poli- or Poly-something which leaves the A, possibly
united, or amalgamated or something like that? Does anyone know?
Anyway, the 'general' toy range often gets
marked with APS in a round-angled triangle, with you can see here (just not in
detail) along with the same MADE ITALY as the Texas figures the other day.
Also - Angelo is not one to sit on his
laurels, and has already sent me another very interesting set of images, as I also
have some 'Italy' marked stuff, of the same or similar subject matter,
there will be a bit of correspondence before it publishes, but next week
sometime, maybe!
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