H is for How They Come In - Chris - May - 2

The second post is the shortest, but I seem to have photographed most of the piles on the bottom row first and that's the vague order they're coming in, although I fattened this one with the Wild West!

That Toffee Hammer! I posted one as part of the new nostalgia thread, itself only really an extension of the old 'other collectables' thread which was previously a separate Blog, back in the first couple of years here, and anyway (digressed there a bit!) he sent me his old Walkers one.

There's no apostrophe, so not the crisps Walker's, but another Walkers altogether! And the hammer looks to be otherwise identical to the Sharps one, so I imagine the same foundry provided for several firms through sales teams, the hammers being crudely sand-cast to a similar pattern? Cheers Chris, brilliant, more that two of anything is a new collection!

An eclectic mix of cracker gift magnifying-glass/key (a common combination with no logic! A few minutes after publishing - I suppose it goes with keys on a key-ring, although that 'styrene loop wouldn't last two minutes on a metal key-ring!), two cocktail stick-swords could prove useful one day, but as I don't collect larger action figures . . . repainted and crossed over a castle's door? And a rather crumbly chalkware ger'nome.

I had a Santa' in similar condition years ago (I mean; he's still in the collection, I think we've seen him here but not like this) and I just dribbled wood hardener (or concrete hardener?) into him, let him dry, filled a few holes with plaster-of-Paris and then repainted following what was left on the figurine.

Odds and sods; you may remember news that the Dinky sacks were on their way, both clean but with age, so those yellow ones we saw last time would seem to be modern production, but from the old tool?

Nice camp-fire, maker unknown, sort of Playmobile size, but I have a couple of theirs and this ain't them, so some digging required (Mega Bloks Vikings?)! Love the dumpy little plastic tree, the yellow thing is the magnetic 'radioactive' drum/load off of a Dinky Eagle Transporter from Space 1999 - set 23 years in the past and all we’ve got is Bezos' penis-mobile!!

I like the box strapped under a tarp/cloth too, and we're about to look at the creamy white thing; bottom left . . .

. . . I think . . . it's meant to be a mud brick-mould? Or should that be mud-brick mould . . . call it a mud-brick-mould! Handle is wrong for Playmobil, material wrong for Lego . . . any ideas? It's fun anyway!

Larger Wild West; as I've said before the kinder swoppet bits go in a bag and every now and again I manage to build a whole one! Another Lone Star target Indian, and the missing pose in the correct colour to make me a set with a extra opposite colour pose I think, so box definitely ticked!

For some reason one of those Lucky-Bag guardsmen crept in to shot! New colour though - I think! The green one is interesting, I think he's a Deetail clone, blue one is Cofalux (from memory?), the oxide-brown Indian could be a Siku copy (?) and three Marx clones of Pecos Bill (cracker/lucky bag premiums) join a 30mm Britains piracy and another of the Crescent/Lido et-al 'dimestore' plastics.

Giant clones out of Hong Kong; Chris very usefully left the larger lots in separate bags, very important for sorting and attributing riders with horses when there are so many to ID! The bag on the left is someone's childhood leftovers and a mixed sample which will require further sorting, the bag on the right is a clean sample of Wavymane III, and can go straight in the box!

In front is a smaller mixed lot of post-Giant foot and foot with the same base-mark as one lot of Romans, I think as Wild West they go with the horse I call 'Jogging'. Final heap of brown is the Blue Box small scales.

Thanks again to Chris Smith for all the surprises, and we'll look at the civilian and sports figures next.