Not a patch on the sublime Britains Herald sledge team (which I
don't have!), but aimed at a different price-bracket and consequently cruder,
yet more robust, is the Timpo arctic
sledge with Esquimaux/Inuit musher.
13 pieces (unlucky for some . . .
especially if items are missing!) go together to make up the model, which was
sold assembled. One of my dogs is the wrong pose, but one of his feet lines up
with a hole in the base so I could bluff the assembled shot below.
It's a stunning piece, even it if lacks the
subtlety of the Britains one,
although you have to ignore the totally inaccurate arrangement of the dog-team,
who are always in-line, lead by the pack leader and spaced so that they can't
reach each-other with a bite!
The traces simply loop loosely over the
dogs heads and given that both horse leathers and these dog-leads are known for
their increasing brittleness these days, I was treating them with such care -
so's not to break them - they kept popping off; as I got a couple over the
heads one would come loose again, it was like a fiddly game of whack-a-mole!
The Britains
set was different from the others by depicting Western explorers rather than
native peoples, the green one is a Marx
reissue and I think the brown one holding a fish aloft was by Ideal, also an American
make, also a reissue?
The musher can take the same snow-shoes as
the rest of the line, and; once equipped with a knife, makes a good bar-brawler
or bear-fighter!
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