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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.

Thursday, April 8, 2021

T is for Three-of-a-Kind

I've been sorting all the AFV's in the attic, bedroom and garage, into one 'master collection', only to find after I'd taken 70-odd boxes and tubs to the new Storage unit (hopefully more temporary than previous times) another box of unsorted AFV's! As I was going I was taking various shots as chance presented the opportunity, and one was this little line-up!

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; 18Lbr.; 1914 - 1918; Blue Box; Crescent; Crescent Copy; Crescent Gun; Eighteen Pounder; Gun Team; Kamley Industrial Co. Ltd.; KS Toys; Rado Industries; RHA; Ri-Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; World War One; WWI Toy Soldiers;
From the left; the Crescent original in die-cast metal alloy (the red paint probably home-added), a Blue Box copy in hard Polystyrene (PS) and a softer sub-piracy in polyethylene (PE), which may Ri-Toys; they both had a bash, and I didn't compare with the carded sets.

In fact it too has some home paint and then there's the pale blue-grey version from Blue Box and a cleaner Crescent somewhere, so we will have a proper look at all of them one day, but this'll do for now!

2 comments:

EY said...

Do all of them fire matchsticks?

Hugh Walter said...

Oooh YeeeSSS! But the 2nd generation copy is a bit top heavy and will fall forwards! Blue box used to issue a small runner of plastic shells, Crescent may have done likewise, or metal ones like Britains; I'm not sure?

H