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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!

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2 comments:

  1. EYApril 9, 2021 at 3:52 AM

    Do all of them fire matchsticks?

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  2. Hugh WalterApril 9, 2021 at 4:20 AM

    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

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