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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, June 23, 2022

N is for Nostalgia - Badges!

OK, well, after a seven-day figure-fest, let's have something completely different with a bit of a nostalgia hit to boot, after all if we collect toys we already have an interest in juvenile popular culture!

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
Another of the magic drawers shot on the way to storage, it's where all the badges that come in with mixed-lots end-up, after the drawing-pins, building blocks, broken chalks & crayons, buttons, Lego, lumps of hairy, brown Plasticine, marbles, Meccano, and other detritus have been removed!

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
This might . . . I stress MIGHT . . . and only 'might' . . . be the only surviving example of the badges in this Giant Plastics Corp., set (third image down), but it may be from another source altogether! A photo-realistic (because it's a 1:1 photograph, as a print!) army badge, reproduced as a paper sticker. It's actually quite an unusual higher-function/rear echelon logistics/construction unit - ADSEC Wikipedia.

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
Figurals; A cat stamped from polished sheet steel (stainless), a relief-flat setter, a similar Tyrolean/Bavarian [very-]young couple stealing a kiss, the two dogs came from Bulgaria, while the rabbit is channeling both Miffi and Hello Kitty (or even the new Chi) but is none of those franchise's characters, but rather a generic; possibly a gum-ball machine prize?

Finally the National Children's Homes (NCH) crocodile/alligator in Santa suit is a teeny-tiny example of multiple-shot moulding, a technique akin to over-moulding, but with each colour laid side-by-side, originally; separately, increasingly now; at the same time.

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
Also figural, this is interesting both for being a motorcycle (speedway memento?) and being marked on the back with the Injection Moulder's logo, whom we last saw selling Thomas cord-pull helicopters here.

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
This is a lovely little thing, a simple pin-badge in pressed, tin-litho, not sure if the alphabet is Chinese or Japanese but I think the latter, and the equivalent of a 'penny toy'? The sort of thing 1960's or early '70's parents would buy a whole card of, and hand out as 'attendance' prizes to all the kids at a birthday party . . . "I'll be ya' best friend . . . "

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
Oh, if I had a decent sample of these I'd need a new Blog! Brass, die-cast alloy, plastic, card . . . stars, medallions, shields, name-plates, we all had several of these on our way through childhood, Sheriff, Deputy, Posse, Marshal, Fire Chief, Police, or here (in plastic) 'Special Agent' . . . where would a 20th Century adolescence have been without at least one of these?

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
I hate this creature with such a vengeance he's got 'air-pellet receptacle' written all over 'im! However, some, many, were taken in by the Disneyfication of the whole planet, so just for them . . .no, I'm not going to clean the little shit!

Look at his dimwittedness, shining, beacon-like from his fizzog, listen to his whining voice (it's there, in your head, right now! "Oooh! helloooo pluuu'tooo!"), wonder at his inordinate earning-potential, imagine my extra Google-traffic - whatever I say about the horrid, mawkishly-sentimental little fu . . . deep breath Hugh, deep breath . . . calm down; go and have a coffee!

105mm Gun; 20mm Oerlikon GAM-BO1; ADSEC; Aeroplane; Artillery Badge; Badge Novelties; Badges; Button Badges; Buttons; Cats; Disney Badge; Dogs; Figurral Badges; Giant. Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Injection Moulders Ltd.; Lapel Badges; Mickey Mouse; Motorbike; Motorcycle; No. 260; Novelty Badges; Novelty Pins; Pin Badges; Pins; Plastic Badges; Rabbits; Sheriff's Badge; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Special Agent; Tin Badges;
At the other end of the badge spectrum from anthropomorphic plastic twats are these, given away by arms manufacturers, to adults, at defence shows! Heavy alloy, base-metal or pewter models of whichever killing-machine they are flogging that day, here we have a faux-gilded 105mm howitzer (presumably from BAE Systems) and an Oerlikon ship-defence auto-cannon.

I may have some more of these somewhere (tanks, helicopters and 'planes), I've had a lot of luck with the Farnborough Airshow over the years; Dad used to get us all-area tickets when the Tiger Moth was on display, while in the 2000's I was working as a chauffeur and a lot of our work was for BAE or their clients, so we were in and out, all day, for the whole gig and got given a lot of stuff.

At that level of corporate hospitality the stuff is given-away like rain, indeed; umbrellas (full size, posh ones) were another common freebie, leaving me and family possessing a lifetime's supply of them - I recently took half-a-dozen to charity! Once I had a party of Turks visiting Thames Water facilities for a whole week (8-seat V-Klass) and they left all their umbrellas with me and I struggled to give them all away! We (they - the rich and powerful) have killed the planet with this shite!

2 comments:

Spectrum Steve said...

Hey Hugh,

I'm sure you already know, but I can't resist mentioning, that the pressed tin badge is a nice depiction of a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Hawk of 50s vintage (saw action during the Suez crisis) there was a reissue of the Airfix kit which used the same markings as your badge.

Steve.

Hugh Walter said...

I didn't know Steve, I'd barely allowed myself o believe it was likely depicting a real aircraft over some generic brumm-brumm! Google has revealed, thanks!

H