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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.

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

E is for Erazeoo

I know! Some of them are so bad I'm shocked I get away with it! Claimed by RSW International and sub-branded to Royle Kids [sic] 'Animal Antics', these were a gift from Peter Evans in his end-of May parcel to the Blog, so many thanks to him.

Animal Antics; Elephant; Elephant Eraser; Elephant Novelty; Elephant Toy; Eraser Set; Erasers; Flying Tiger; Hippo Eraser; Hippo's; Hippopotami; Hippopotamus; Novelty Erasers; Royle Kids; RSW International; Rubber Erasers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tiger Eraser; Tiger Hippopotamus; Tiger Stores; Tiger Toy Animals; Toy Animals;
Of interest to us as they (or the Hippo) are the same as the Hippo we saw from Tiger Stores (now Flying Tiger) a couple of [six!] years ago here at Small Scale World, so clearly a re-branding or separate contract. I was going to stack the elephant on the other two, but all three boxes are different sizes! I look for it but can't find it so it's probably in a mixed round-up or News, Views . . . ?

Animal Antics; Elephant; Elephant Eraser; Elephant Novelty; Elephant Toy; Eraser Set; Erasers; Flying Tiger; Hippo Eraser; Hippo's; Hippopotami; Hippopotamus; Novelty Erasers; Royle Kids; RSW International; Rubber Erasers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tiger Eraser; Tiger Hippopotamus; Tiger Stores; Tiger Toy Animals; Toy Animals;
Close-ups; The Elephant is the weakest, being an odd shape really, more African than Asian and with short but fat tusks which can't be excused by production limits as the Hippo has a nice-enough and thinner tail?

But they are what they are, which -for the most part - is nice sculpts of animals you probably wouldn't want to actually use as erasers, so novelties! All grist to the mill - and thanks again to Peter.

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