We'll look at them all in a minute but I'll
just draw your attention to the Panda on a park bench as I rather cut his
head-off without noticing in the second image - nothing lasting, just poor
photography!
He's sitting on a park bench and reading a
copy of the China Daily! Whether he
represents the detent following Nixon's visit or one of the many baby-panda
exchanges of my childhood, each of which, single or pair, used to generate more
headlines and column-inches that Trump and the Windsor's do now, put together!
Equally he could be an early Beijing tourist
souvenir, his China Daily has very
Chinese stories?
If we work snail-round,
anti-clockwise from the panda (you can see what I did there!) we have 'enry
from Westair in a 70mm poured-resin with
factory paint, another micro-racing car (we've seena rather chewed pale-blue one in polyethylene,
this one's styrene; cracker's the pair, I suspect) and a police-bear with Harrods on his tunic!
A safari bust from the Egyptian toob, two
'winterval' cake-decorations either side of St. Francesca Romana the patron
saint of drivers, who has a dash-board sucker (starting to perish with age but
still usable), and might be made of casein under the paint? Below the Iwako eraser (sample from Toy Fair 2020 in the wrong shot!) is a
small vinyl, probably from a safari set or Jurassic
Park knock-off in Matchbox 1-75, Majorette or Hot Wheel size?
A small carousel/roundabout from a funfair
as a bracelet charm, a probably-Kinder
penguin and then two characters from the Wind
in the Willows. I think they are from one of those board games I keep
bookmarking and doing nothing about, like that Dougle game, Chris sent some-of the other day! Anyway, there is
probably a Mole and Badger to find?
Snow White and the six dwarves! . . . in terracotta;
she seems to be a new'ish sculpt (with a very porcine face), but I think the
little fella's are cast from Marx's
Disnykins and I will track down the seventh . . . some day! One of my great
regrets [now] was selling a set of all eight in Japanese blow-moulded
celluloid, but they went to a good home and I didn't collect that scale at the
time . . . hey-ho!
Three cartoonish Buddha-types, clearly
enjoying life, in antiqued 'ivory' plastic take us back to the top where we
find a rural or farm-couple spinning wool, a memento from Junin, Peru, they are
constructed in the same way as the teeny-tiny worry-dolls, but much larger and obviously
another touristy thing.
Finally another, new Phidal busy-book character; I have ceased to be amazed at the
number of these, I'm pretty sure he's not a duplicate and I saw another (new)
one on the Toy Project's stall the
other day, so heaven knows how many sets there have been now? He's (Iron Man) standing over two of the 40mm Papo-Mini sea-monster/pirates in the
centre.
Another fine sample of eclectic stuff, mixed
toys and novelties, tourist souvenir figures, trinkets and mementoes in fabric,
metal, various plastics and terracotta to filter into the pile, with some
definitely destined for a return under one theme or another and as always; many
thanks to Peter.
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