H is for How They Come In - The Really Quite Good Lot

The following week, that is; the week following the lot in the last post, or two weeks ago, roughly . . . I managed to find much better pickings as the sorting of Lockdown started to filter through, or so I thought (see next post for how that panned-out!), with three bags procured;

Three bags, or two bags and a loose figure, so three purchases, must have accuracy! You can see straight away how interesting the contents of the bag was, so leaving it would have been daft!

But first to Superman, who I thought might be from the comic+figure series, which it may be, I haven't looked into them, but it was a solid, so I grabbed it! It's definitely Schleich, and we may have seen some before in a Toy Fair post, but they may have been Bullyland, I can't remember, they'll be on the tag-list for those who need to know!

The main chance! Clearly the remains of what might once have been an interesting biscuit-tin or cigar-box full of similar stuff? But as was pointed out by a loyal reader over a similar lot a while ago, they may have been saved by the shop staff from a dozen donations!

The best bit is the rider for the Crescent/Kellogg's circus horse, which was the most obvious missing item in my sample, while the Roman was found two days after a bunch of his compatriots arrived in the post as the result of an evilBay purchase.

Not mentioned below are the Ricicles premium, a small 'Maid Marion' issue guardsman, a Hong Kong copy of Monogram radio-operator and a soft, black-rubber, motorcycle rider.

Clockwise from top left; the driver on the right is Tudor Rose I seem to recall, but the other two must be Thomas (UK) or Poplar, being polyethylene versions of the PVC-rubber Thomas originals?

Nice robot, probably from gum-ball capsule machines and a Jar-jar fuckwit who seems to have been atop something; an automatic toothbrush, money-box, knock-off play-set, who knows?

The Marx Jap' is actually a Hong Kong-marked copy and my first in this iteration, the mark is clear and on the upper surface of the base. The diver is probably also Hong Kong, although unmarked and sat on a rack-toy boat, while the other two are kit figures, a pilot or driver and an early AFV-kit accessory.

A rather clean but paint-chipped Lone Star officer, to which you can add the cleaner Crescent grenage thrower and three tatty Cherilea ceremonials.