B is for Biggies - Art's Five Inch Figures

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?