C is for Chris's Autumn Parcel - Wild West

So, couple of busy days have put me slightly behind, drove over to pick-up the dregs of Dave Pomeroy's archive yesterday - bit of a mini-adventure in itself! But I'll catch-up quick enough, life-willing, and it's back to the donation from Chris Smith a month or so ago, with a look at the cowboy and native Indian angle, of that rootin' tootin' shootin' wild Wild West!

A nice group of semi-flats in an 'ivorene' polystyrene plastic, it's probably rare to find them so undamaged as a group! They are unmarked marked Vortella Plastic, and while in the style of the Coca-cola animals, have thinner bases, they are also somewhat in the style of the US Cracker Jack set, but different, heavier sculpts, I don't think they've been attributed to anyone yet, but would seem to be Euro-premiums/margarine giveaways?

Bendy Toys; a striation of colour weaving its way through the marble of Small Scale World; I think we've seen the smaller chaps before, but the Brabo styled 'lanky-git' to the right is a lovely thing, I forgot to note any marks before that tub went up to storage, but I think it was a Hong Kong mark not Brabo themselves? And a Safari on the far end. [Next day - it's not Safari is it, I think it's Phiadal's Pocahontas set, I keep them all in the same tub; painted PVC!]

Fun chaps; There's a mix of modern China marked generics (first three) possibly accessories from a big-box play set, of exactly the kind of thing hardware, stationary, general stores and/or pharmacies get-in at this time of year, and an older Soma figure (on the right).

Base marks, I recently (well; about a year ago!) got a similar lot in with a mix of the Soma and similar premium figures from Haribo, so at some point in the future (year or two?) we will compare all three with the older cartoony stuff from Jecsan (Spain) and Lik Be (Hong Kong), in a much fuller post.

The de rigueur bag of Giant or Giant-like bits, these being mostly the ones I call 'Wavymane' associated with several brands/brand-marks, but that's all for the other Blog!

I'm pretty sure these are premiums, just not sure who, and I think we've seen them before, maybe always in this dark, metallic lilac, but I won't sware to it! Obviously, we'll return to them when they are all brought together! With a new pose to the left?

This is rather intriguing, nearly all the poles have come loose, and the thing's been 'ironed' into a stiff hankie by the weight of whatever toys were laying over it, but you can see feint marks where the original glue was, or where the past making-tape was applied as a first attempted mend, so eventually I intend to restore it.

I'm guessing it went with smaller 3 or 4-inch action figures or something like Playmobile figures, and is - clearly - a fabric Tee-Pee/Tipi with wooden poles; four present, probably six originally?

The painted cowboy with the straw boater can be found as a cowboy or a jungle/big-game hunter, and is probably missing a dog, usually attached to the front of the base, but this is a non-Blue Box sub-piracy and may not have run to a dog!

Below him is one of the very-well sculpted 40mm backwoodsmen and Indians (copied from a larger scale) which, like those AWI's we looked at a while ago, have some of the properties of DFC, but are probably older and of better quality than DFC's figures?

To his right is one of Nardi Mounties; a bit the worse for wear, but a useful sample against something better turning-up one day, good ones tend to command high prices and stay outside my practical (read: tight-fisted) budget!

Some interesting Hong Kong production, including two painted (newer) and two in blue plastic (older, one aping Texas, but probably from a coach-roof?), some cake decorations and another of the Lone Star shooting game figures, we'll have to return to them too, as after the original post and a couple of follow-ups, more have come in (four I think, three from Chris?) and the paperwork, so it should all be tied-together more neatly!

Finally, top-right, a wagon crewman . . .

. . . which I'm guessing is US, or from US moulds (early Tudor Rose or Kleeware, Salco, Selcol, someone like that?), nice, a sort of hard, coal-black 'styrene, and the hunt for an ID will occupy my mind from time to time!

Smallies; two of the horses from those cheap wedding-cake type coaches, and three of the Hong Kong coach/wagon crew, having looked at them before, I've since ID'd older French and Italian versions, some/one of which should be the donor! The broken horses are worth keeping as colour samples, as there seem to be so many variants of them!

More smallies! Top row; A Marx-copy cracker toy/Lucky Bag premium of Pecos Bill, two Marx Miniature Masterpieces, one damaged hard polystyrene (left) and one soft polyethylene (right) from the window-box sets and a Blue Box miniaturised Britains sculpt.

A Minimodels mounted Indian; I've just picked up two painted metal castings (because you DO cast metal) of these from the aforementioned Dave Pomeroy's archive (he didn't design them, they are Charles Stadden's work) and they are equally damaged; the weapons were just too thin! Finally a trio of Hong Kong'ies for the relevant tubs of such things - love the plastic colour of the cracker-toy, bottom-right!

So thanks again to Chris for another interesting lot of odds to share, and it's civi's next I think?