Proving the old adage (we'll it's an old adage
here as I keep saying it, it's one of the reasons I have so many 'eemies' (as
they call theirs) in the 'old guard'!) that none of this stuff is rare!
I grabbed this the other day, the seller
had two left at time of writing, grab-one before they're gone!
And before we go any further it's worth
reminding you of these posts;
Then click 'newer post' or;
and then click 'older post'
How they arrived, in a little poly-bag like
this they could have been aimed at cake decorators, Christmas crackers (so I'll
stick Culpitt and Tom Smith in the tags), arcade crane-machines
or travelling showground hoopla stalls? The point is, this is the third
iteration of the two 'sets' of these, which ten years ago were 'rare' and only
visible as a couple of thumbnails on TSHQ, but which are now becoming 'old
hat'!
It's so cool! The mice needed some straightening
with hot water (and I mean 'hot', this is polyethylene, not PVC, so a boiling
kettle poured down the reins/traces for a good 15 or twenty seconds, then
pulled taught and pressed against a piece of cold marble (cutting board) or
steel (draining board), needed two goes, but right as ninep'nce now!
♫♫♪
"We will pull it, we will drag it, to the party, how, how, how . . .
we will pull it, we will drag it; lets get going, now, now, now" ♫♪♪♪
Obviously with this kind of ex-shop stock,
it tends to look like it was made yesterday, and while it probably is later
than the stuff we looked at last time, it's clearly marked 'No307 Made in Hong
Kong' down both sets of the hard polystyrene suspension, so it must be at least
30 years old?
2 comments:
Hugh
Nice find. I am very fond of small parts needing to be assembled. (I love your title 'P is for...')
Jan
Cheers Jan, they were a bit pricey, but lack of rarity is not the same thing as availability, and when might I see them again? And - if I ever find them in a different colorway . . . I can start building a fleet of leguminous limousines!
H
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