So, the reason I asked you to note the
mostly undecorated Joseph with his touches of gold (and the brown 'wash' cloak),
in the earlier post, was because he was channeling this whole set, which at
150mm is the biggest of the Art Plastics
sets I've found so far. This one an import (into the United States) by Similegno;
Similegno seem to be a smaller version of somebody like Shackman, with other
nativitie sets and household goods or novelties under their brand. A 12 piece set, which - as I've said -
seems to be the average, you can go as low as 8, or upwards beyound 15, the Santons
and Fontanini 'ranges' being almost limitless
in the former case and well over 40-items in the latter's 35/40mm and 54/60mm lines.
Mentioning Fontanini, we have another of
their shepherd sculpts in this set, albeit finessed I think, either by Art, or someone in-between? Also, note
that at this size we get a separate Jesus, still in a rather truncated 'Moses
basket', but the two items counting as one-piece for the total.
Produced in a faux ivory or 'Ivorene'
plastic with simple gold highlights, mostly to clothing hems and the Wise Men's
presents, the only colour is a semi-transparent/smokey-opaque red 'brick' of plastic
making-up Joseph's (very anachronistic - medieval or post medieval) storm-lantern, which is a
tied-in separate piece.
And these too have the paper/card seal over
the hollowed-out bases, here; the DOnkey's, with close-ups of the shepherd and
little baby Jesus . . . it's his official Birthday in a week!
If you remember last year's post, there are
many copies of Art Plastics (themselves
pirates) in the smaller sizes, and I'm sure over time copies of the larger (60/70mm)
ones will turn-up too, but whether at this more extreme size I'm not so sure?
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