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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.

Monday, December 2, 2019

R is for ♪♫ Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, Keep Them Novelties Rolling . . . Crackerrrrr! ♫♪♪

Just a quickie, it was going to be three images but really a single collage is more than enough on these here-today (or here the 25th) gone tomorrow (unless you archive them for a future Blog post. Doh!) Christmas cracker and capsule frivolities!

46mm Novelties; 6 Assortment; Baffalo Novelty; Bear Novelty; Bear Toy; Bison Novelty; Bison Toy; Buffalo Toy; Camel Novelty; Camel Toy; Christmas Crackers; Christmas Novelties; Cracker Novelties; Cracker Toys; Elephant Novelty; Elephant Toy; Finewell Universal Limited; Fultoys; Horse Novelty; Horse Toy; Lion Novelty; Lion Toy; Novelty Animals; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Novelty Toys; Ramp Novelties; Ramp Toys; Rolling Animals; Rolling Novelties; Rolling Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SS2259; Tom Smith;
The single horse is the 'vintage' here, it's been in the collection for years, the Bear is a more modern addition to the stash and differes from the others in being more one-sided, with a smooth back and a contoured front, against the rounded outlines on both sides of the others.

I found the Fultoys on-line, the image is from their current range (part of which is probably bought-in) and you can see they are simplified copies of the earlier horse - and his friends? I'm sure other brands could be associated with or found to have handled these, Tom Smith for sure!

24-days and you too may have one and just the sort of thing you may find flying out of budget crackers at a 'works do'.

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