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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

P is for Palm-flat Palm Flats

Another one which missed tree week, although the planting in the UK (it was 'our' tree week I think?) of palm trees outside of the South Cost, Scilly- or Channel Islands can be a bit of a fool's errand, but as the climate inexorably changes I dare say the line of success is moving firmly northwards!

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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?

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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.

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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!

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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.

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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?

"Blue-Box" Palm Trees; "Blue-Box" Palms; Blue Box Palm Trees; Blue Box Palms; Britains Palm Trees; Britains Palms; Britains Trees; Charbens Palm Trees; Charbens Palms; Coconut Palm Tree; Coconut Palms; Date Palm Tree; Date Palms; Dom Palms; Domplast; Domplastik; Giant Fern; Made in China; Made in England; Made In Germany; Made in Hong Kong; Manurba Heinerle; Monkey Palm; Monkey Puzzle; Palm Fern; Palm Tree; Palm Trees; Small Scale World; Starlux Coconut Palm; Tree Fern;
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:

Andy B said...

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.

Hugh Walter said...

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

gto said...

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.

Hugh Walter said...

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