On the left is Britains set of coconut
palms which was based on their old Hollow-cast palms, if not actually from the
same mold-tool? Much copied in Hong Kong we have two better ones from Blue Box
(For Cheyenne among other sets!) and a more recent generic both of which
designs have bracing across the trunks, probably to try and prevent warping
upon removal from the mould?
The three together; you can see how much
smaller both the copies are and the loss of detailed etching on the 2nd
generation copy, which is also manufactured in an insipid, wishy-washy polymer
which would benefit from a paint-job.
Charbens cheeky chimp climbing for coconuts! Actually he's easy to remove
resulting in a far more useful tree in any scale which - going on the size of
the monkey - is otherwise, a very small tree in quite a large scale!
Above; we have variations in the bases of
the Charbens trees which 'had some
work' at some point, I'd like to think one was from a hollow-cast mold or
something, but the hollow-cast tree was quite different and had no stupid
monkey!
Below; are two designs from that Manurba (Manfred Urban) / Heinerle süßwaren Wundertüten (confectionery surprise bags) / Dom (Domplast-Domplastik)
group. They did produce a larger double coconut palm and a banana palm, but I
either don't have them or have put them in the Manurba box, which is still buried in the garage! A rather nice
tree-fern (Australasia) and a fruitless 'generic' palm.
I think this is Starlux, but the mark (in a little recessed cartouche) was
obliterated by glue or early-removable from the tool, so it could be Befoid or Clairet? Any way it's supposed to be a coconut palm, by the look of
it?
A Modern hollow-backed pair of bass-relief
coconuts from some 'armyman' set; it may be a make-weight in some pocket-money
rack-toy thing, but it adds to the collection of palm-flat flat palms!
4 comments:
Think your Starlux one is probably a date palm? The fruits look more like clusters of dates, which can be an orange colour before ripening.
Andy! Oh Andy! I was gonna' write date palm (because of the cluster AND the colour, but then I looked at the size of the fruit (under the paint and strange red blobs) and tried to put myself in a 1950's toy-makers shoes, so plumped for coconut (more versatile (jungle, Tarzan, pirates dinosaurs, zoo), but yeah . . . you'r e probably right! Arabs and FFL it is then!
H
Bonjour à vous,
Le coconut où plus surement le date palm a été fabriqué par une firme française de grand talent : GUILBERT
Très bonne journée.
GTO - You stole my stuff and you stole it for years, don't think you can ever freely comment here - piss off, piss-ant.
H
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