As loyal readers know I didn't start
collecting large scale (apart from a composition Cossack, Tim Mee Jap' and a couple of hollow-cast on display in my old
kitchen) until after I started the blog back in 2009/10, so I've only been at
this 'full-on' malarkey for a decade, but I seem to have picked-up a few Wild
West women and when I was sorting the Wild West a couple'o months ago, I shot some
of them together before splitting them up.
Not only are they mostly Marx, they are
mostly Dale Evans . . . how boring! No, but several of them are, and from the
left we have;
Marx 60mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [early] Playsets
- PVC vinyl-rubber*
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, earlier, painted
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, re-issue
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, re-issue
Koho 70mm Calamity Jane - polyethylene,
early, painted
Marksmen 60mm - ex-Marx Town - polyethylene
re-issue (via Rado/Ri-Toys)
Marx 60mm Townswoman - Town sets - chalky
polyethylene (Swansea?)
Marx 60mm Cowgirl - Ranch Cowboys - polyethylene
(re-issue?)**
Marx 60mm Cowgirl - Special Town + Sets - PVC
vinyl-rubber (paint may be home-added)
*early version, later mouldings had an
added base/stand
** I don't know what she's supposed to ride but she fits several of my hippo's and a extra-large lion!
I also have this poor casualty, and she's a
casualty twice-over having been apparently sculpted as a casualty, and then
lost a hand and a foot due to the brittleness of the material coupled with
rough handling!
I am assuming she's a [Ron] Barzo piece, being sculpted in a two-part epoxy/PU-resin, but she
could be a garage/aftermarket or home-sculpted piece? If Barzo she may be a one-per-box from one from his big boxed play
sets? Not that she is definitely Wild West even; he did many other 'horse &
musket' periods/theatres including pirates?
In the searching for the Koho (Koch und Hofmockel) babe's details I managed to ID two others, both
from the smaller 54mm line, and after this shot was taken a yellow 60mm Indian with
lance turned-up, along with another 54mm cowboy, same pose, so; another growing
corner of the collection!
Some cruder-looking versions of the 54mm
were issued in France as premiums by Jeunesse, who are still going in the health & beauty market which makes the issue of Wild
West figures a strange promotion in any age, you'd expect something like
costume dolls from the sexism that drove 1950/60's marketing; maybe they
launched an aftershave or men's deodorant, or something like that? Kid's bubble-bath or toothpaste?
I wonder if your casualty is actually supposed to be carrying something on her head, and the arm was up to steady whatever it was?
ReplyDeleteI have considered such things Andy, even to getting the jeweler's lope out (my eyes are terrible these days!), and it's not clear, but she seems to be flattened down the plane I've laid her on for the shots, equally she could be sleeping? There are sculptural similarities with a couple of standing women by Barzo still on The Toy Soldier Co's website, and he often included casualties in his sets?
ReplyDeleteH
Back in the 50's when collecting as a kid, the only woman in all the different series of figures was a cowgirl in brittle red plastic by Tudor Rose. She was bow legged like the green figure shown in order to fit the narrow Tudor Rose horse.
ReplyDeleteWoolworth's toy counter was piled high with these brittle figures back then. The only other woman I recall was the various metal HM The Queen, trooping the colours.
Hi Terra - the Airfix version is to be found here; . . .
ReplyDeletehttp://airfixfigs.blogspot.com/2010/06/1947-1955-approximately-bergenbeton.html
. . . but yes, the T*R is probably commoner, i just haven't got round to adding them to that post!
H