Just a Picasa clearer; a few things I've managed to snaffle in the last few
months, which were shot and sitting in Picasa waiting for a job, and this is
it!
These were two or three lots/sources I think
and we may have see some of them already in show reports, but here they've all
been cleaned, some of them were very dirty. I just love 'em and will always grab
them when I see them going cheap (£€$12 or £€$24 per
figure on eBay gets ignored - they're not rare!), as there are a lot to find.
Here we have three of the late phenolic/early
- less than stable - 'styrene ones in bright colours, with, upper left, three
similar-aged silver ones, so probably all original Lido or Winco Condar,
while the rave-dancer, top right, is a more modern lightweight polystyrene one
with a better finish.
The blue one had black spots on, which
might have been a past-owner's paint, or a slow-growing mould eating something
in the polymer, I couldn't tell, but it hasn't fully removed despite some
serious chemicals, so the now pale-purple staining seems permanent?
Going un-bid-on on evilBay, this was Jecsan or Reamsa, I can't remember, the former I think, to go with those
over-sized nativity figures I bought in a charity shop a few Christmases ago? And
it's big, about 8 or ten inches, gone to storage now, so I can't give you a definitive
size, but more Palm-tree comparisons (we did some of the flats a while ago) are
in this Blogs future!
I got a eMail from Chris Smith with a link
to this lot and one bid secured it! I have some of most or most of some, but as
grist-to-the-mill it was worth a speculative bid, and the highlights were the
two musicians and the four Wild West, which I think are 1970's French bazaar
copies of Dom-Heinerle, Siku or similar, earlier, German
premiums?
The pile of pastel Cowboys and Indians are
also interesting as they are late, sub-piracies of Giant's own Britains
copies, while there are a few plug-in US Marines from rack-toy rubber-boats, a
lovely little dog, two Thomas
paddling Indians which may be the Giant-copy size, but later production than
them (so French copies of Manurba's version?), a Chinese Villager and . . . the
rest - cheers to Chris for the heads-up!
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