From the "If you're going to mention
him in the text you might show them the bloody thing Hugh" department, come
not one but two miners, one of which is definitely Australian!
Forgot I had this one (hiding in the
'mocherette' folder with all the Westair, Peltro and Kinder crap), his axe is broken, but a semi-precious stone that size
will break most tools! In a copper alloy and 'antiqued' to match all those
tourist pencil-sharpeners (probably retailed off the same shelf!), he's digging
some interesting stuff - I think the pale one is a piece of Larimar,
the dark blue a poor (or low-value) piece of Opal (Sapphire cabochon)?
This is the one I mentioned in the previous
post; one has to assume he's from Wales, Scotland (at a pinch) or even
Cornwall, but he too could be Australian, from the Ruhr, from the former Czechoslovakia
(Ertzgibirge?) or even somewhere more exotic like Chile or South Africa;
without a label we'll probably never know, although the stones should be a
clue, he's standing on Marble (Italy?) and attacking
something which looks to be a bit like unpolished Black Tourmaline or Enstatite?
The coppery one is around 25mm, this one is
closer to a war-gaming 28mm and manufactured the same way; whitemetal in
cold-cast rubber moulds, although I think the blob of Araldite is a post-retail 'mend'!
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