Chris Smith eMailed me a week or two ago a with a link to an eBay lot which I bought there and then, even before thanking him . . . it answered a question posed here a couple of times I think; the 'like late / Toyway-Timpo' highlanders, and revealed new poses!
Credited to a Scottish International Gift, Scotland and clearly a touristy gift-item, it's a pretty standard window-box with a tombstone-card at the back that could be pierced for wire-hook peg-board hanging, but something which isn't done in the factory. A potted history of the bagpipes is provided on the rear of the extended card, along with a code NO. 6000, which as a round number is almost certainly a stand-alone, with no similar items in the (or 'a') line?
I can't remember which new pose/s we encountered last time we looked at them here; was it the bass drummer or the pipe/band major? No matter, you get one of each, with two-each of the commoner side-drummers and pipers, which - of course - is why they are commoner, or turn-up more often, loose!
I took them out on one of those warm days a while ago and marched them round the empty bird-bath past the weeping cherry!
The next day - I should add that paint and material wise they are very similar to both the late Timpo/Toyway factory-painted Highlanders and the Hong Kong Salvation Army band set, only the bases being the obvious visual difference, this is not to say there is any connection, painted PVC was big in the late 1970's through the bulk of the 1980's.
"You told me I couldn't eat them
so I'm not even going to see them!"
Many thanks to Chris for spotting these and facilitating my sharing them with the rest of you! Funny thing is I think I recognise the box, so JB probably had a set when I was helping him, and if I'd paid more attention to large-scale when I was a small scale collector I would have had the answer all along!
The next day - I may of course be confusing the box with the painted sets of Ecsi 1:35th scale figures which I think were issued under the A-Toys branding, I also think they were in silver/grey boxes?
The wee little people and bagpipes; I am feel a bit nostalgic about now. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHappy to know you enjoyed them Jan!
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Two weeks and no posts you OK hope you are just taking in the sun
ReplyDeleteI'm sorting my late Mother's estate out Jah, this year will be very bitty, I'm sorting my stuff as it goes back into storage and taking thousands of photo's as I go, so there's tons in the long queue - several years worth - but I just don't have the luxury of faffing about on Blogger! I will try to get something up over the weekend, but the lawn still has to be done, and the weeding and the dead-heading, but without mum, there's little enthusiasm right now, it's more a case of keeping it in a state the Estate Agents will be happy with and watering the pots so I can save them for my new home, which I'm not even looking for yet!!!
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Ok Hugh just a bit worried Take care Johnny
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ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear of your loss. It is a tough one. We will be here when you get back. Take care and don’t be an old ninny-grieve your loss old chap.
Jan
Cheers Jan - I've got a handle on the grieving, it's the dealing with the estate and the authorities which is occupying my time and my mind really, and the future is rather up in the air, but fingers crossed a year or so should see me and inherited-cat settled in a 'forever' home, and blogging double-time like a pair of semi-retired futtwitts!
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