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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

S is for Sally's Silver Band

A box-ticker, but one I'm happy to have as it's a lovely set, and happy to keep brief, as it was fully covered in Plastic Warrior magazine not that long ago and I don't know enough about silver bands, musical instruments (as we've seen before!) or even the Salvation Army!

Army Band; Band Master; Bandsmen; Bass Drum; Bugle; Ceremonial Band; Church Army; Drummers; Made in Hong Kong; Military Musicians; Miniature Bandsmen; PVC Plastic Toy Figurines; Sallie Army; Sally Army; Sally Army Musicians; Salvation Army; Salvation Army Band; Salvation Army Ceremonial Bandsmen; Salvation Army Trade Department; Side Drummer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Standard Bearer; Trade Department Hong Kong'; Trombone; Trumpet; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
The 'Salvation Army Trade Department Hong Kong' apart from being a mouthful of words also sounds frightfully grand for an organisation I can't remember having ever seen associated with another product? But there you go; possibly a phantom brand for reasons of tax or charity status, or maybe a/some Christian Chinese produced them at cost or paid for the contract or something?

Army Band; Band Master; Bandsmen; Bass Drum; Bugle; Ceremonial Band; Church Army; Drummers; Made in Hong Kong; Military Musicians; Miniature Bandsmen; PVC Plastic Toy Figurines; Sallie Army; Sally Army; Sally Army Musicians; Salvation Army; Salvation Army Band; Salvation Army Ceremonial Bandsmen; Salvation Army Trade Department; Side Drummer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Standard Bearer; Trade Department Hong Kong'; Trombone; Trumpet; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
Figures - vinyl/PVC - are a tad on the large size, coming in at around 65mm, although you can see they are not the same height, with the lone side-drummer quite noticeably smaller than his band-mates at 62mm all-in. That's them, ♫♪♪♫ Onward Christian Soldiers ♫♫♪ and all that; Christmas is coming!
Original copy and images published by & (C) - Hugh Walter at 12:30 PM
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