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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, November 4, 2021

ZZ is for Hawkin's Bazzar, Ingo Roggaz, Schilling and/or Tobar!

We've looked at them before, Hawkin's have gone under for a final time since Chris supplied his potted-history and the connection with Schilling was proven at a toy fair, but there was one item I really wanted, and another I quite fancied from the tinplate range, and both have been secured since January, so that's what we're looking at here!

Airship; Amphibious Aircraft; Fire Engine; Float Plane; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkin's Bazzar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins Tobar; Ingo Roggaz; Schilling; Sea Plane; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tin Plate Toys; Tin Toy; Tin-Plate Novelties; Tinplate Toys; Tobar; Toy Soldier; ZZ; ZZ Trade-Mark;
The best! Only because I can't really afford those beautiful old French or German ones when they come up occasionally! Vaguely Prussian or Austrian (even Italian or French) cavalryman of that 'colonial' period 1840-1914 so beloved of figure painters (and print artists) for the colours of the splendor of often quite OTT uniforms, many - well 'a few' - of which survive, simplified, as ceremonial uniforms to this day.

The reigns serving as the gilded tree-hanger, and the whole being three sheets of die-cut tin-plate, pressed to shape and assembled with bent ears/tabs in the traditional way.

Airship; Amphibious Aircraft; Fire Engine; Float Plane; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkin's Bazzar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins Tobar; Ingo Roggaz; Schilling; Sea Plane; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tin Plate Toys; Tin Toy; Tin-Plate Novelties; Tinplate Toys; Tobar; Toy Soldier; ZZ; ZZ Trade-Mark;
My line-up now looks like this, with the fictional Vomag (Vogtland Maschinenfabrik AG, actually subsumed under communism and surviving as IFA - Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau) fire-wagon/ladder-truck as the other 'newbie'.

When we looked at these last time I marked some up as not by Hawkin's or Tobar, as they weren't in the catalogues to hand, but they all seem common enough here in the UK for an assumption that all three importers (Schilling [USA], Tobar [UK] and ZZ /Roggaz [BRD]) carried the full range in one catalogue or another, one year or another.

Airship; Amphibious Aircraft; Fire Engine; Float Plane; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkin's Bazzar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins Tobar; Ingo Roggaz; Schilling; Sea Plane; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tin Plate Toys; Tin Toy; Tin-Plate Novelties; Tinplate Toys; Tobar; Toy Soldier; ZZ; ZZ Trade-Mark;
Really a generic fire fighting vehicle with lines that are more American (showing the input Schilling had from the beginning of this ZZ-branded line?) than anything else, the overly complicated bar the ladder is fixed to obviously doubling as pipe-work for interest/external detailing.

Airship; Amphibious Aircraft; Fire Engine; Float Plane; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkin's Bazzar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins Tobar; Ingo Roggaz; Schilling; Sea Plane; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tin Plate Toys; Tin Toy; Tin-Plate Novelties; Tinplate Toys; Tobar; Toy Soldier; ZZ; ZZ Trade-Mark;
Couple more shots of the additions, the ZZ mark being something I've never managed to do justice to within the font limitations of Word-for-Windows! And Dinky's Centurion again shows how small these little tree-hangers are.

There must be loads in people's attics, cellars, sheds and under-stair cupboards, coming out every year and going back on the tree? And they are perfect to take off the tree as presents for sudden, little visitors . . . my late mother always had a few spare bags of chocolate-coins hidden in the center of the tree - on the fat-ends of the branches - for little people to search for, something she was still doing two years ago when the new neighbours brought round their daughter, and a tradition I will continue when I get to wherever I'm going-to.

2 comments:

Andy B said...

Think I have already sent you a scan of an old Hawkin catalogue with the full range (including all these)- I can send it again if you can't find it! The best one in the range is, I think, the motorcycle and side car. There is also a cylindrical sentry box.

Hugh Walter said...

You did Andy, it was published (https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2019/09/f-is-for-follow-up-tobar-hawkins-bazaar.html) and I have since seen a catalogue (which might be mine or from Chris (?) but is already back to storage, so more to come . . . I'm watching a sentry-box at the moment and the sidecar is a possible, but civilian, so not so urgent on the want's lists!

H