. . . but no Matchbox's!
Just a quickie, I really don't have time at
the moment, maybe in the summer there'll be more time to sit-about blathering
on the Internet! But not right now.
I mentioned the other day/in another post
that I was collecting the Shackman
novelty matchboxes, this was a bit of highfalutin hyperbole, as I only have the one,
don't know how many there might be or what the other subjects are (I hope it's the rest
of the band!), but I do occasionally search for them on that there interwebby-thingy.
But I happened, in all the sorting, moving
and scrabbling about which occupies my time at the moment, to find the one I had been
thinking of when I mentioned them the other day (on the left with the guardsman
label), and another, simpler, novelty matchbox (behind, rocking a sort of faux Ship versus Bryant & May look) which is also a pencil sharpener (the original
subject at hand), so quickly fired off a few shots for this post!
From another angle it's more obvious they
ain't gonna' be lighting a fire in a hurry, although they can quickly produce
the best kindling for a boy-scout's carbonisation badge! And they both have
blue (or blue'ish) drawers, which a lot of matchboxes had back in the paper-lined days . . .
when we were young! Who remembers making a small-component cabinet from matchboxes and masking tape, sellotape or glue!
But the Shackman
box also contains the surprise of a small - 40mm - mocherette (or what I call a 'mosherette'
for reasons I will explain - eventually!), being what I believe is a die-cast
rendering of the plastic mini 'swoppet' guards we've seen here before in WHC (Cornelius)/Success branding and as generics, so I hope
the rest will turn-up, or a further variation of legs/torso combinations - here
seen in one piece.
He's in the same antiqued-bronze look of
other similar figures of the time from Peltro,
Westair and other extra-to or pre-Kinder issuers of these figures, and may
have similar age.
As the label mimics the collectable labels
some real match brands would issue (both sides of the Iron Curtain
interestingly) and given that the figure is the same pose as the one
illustrated on that label, it's reasonable to assume there may be more in a
'set'. Are they in one of O'Brian's books?
2 comments:
Old original matchboxes reminds me of the old Ladybird book of Toys and Games to make. From memory you always needed at least one matchbox, an empty date box, a wooden cotton reel, a candle and elastic bands. Simpler times!
Hi Chris . . . Hahahahaha! YES! I think you've giving the starting list of ingredients for both the steam-lorry and canal-boat models!
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