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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.

Friday, December 30, 2022

F is for Follow-up's to Donation Posts

A few things which have been raised after recent posting one way or another. The cream-white Cowboy flat's from Chris HAD had a mark, not only that but originally I had an email chat with Chris, in which they came up, so how I forgot I don't know, elsewhere it gets excused as brain-freeze I believe, I'm blaming the amount of stuff which has come in recently, and the fact that it keeps going to storage in dribs & drabs!

Anyway, I've adjusted the post and added Vortella Plastic to the tag-list, as that was the mark!

Bertje Big; Characatures; Character Key Rings; Cinderella; De Betuwe Jam; Dinky Pink Panther; Dutch Key Rings; Dutch Novelties; Dutch Toys; Flipje Betuwe; Grimm's Fairy Tale; Grocer Krent; Hubley Duck; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Key Chains; Key Rings; Key-Fobs; Klaas Ram; Klaus Ram; Krent Kruidenier; Krent The Grocer; Pied Piper of Hamlyn; Pink Panther; Pink Panther Figures; Pink Panther Key Rings; Pink Panther Novelties; Pixy; Plastic Duck; PVC Characters; PVC Figurines; PVC Plastic Toy Figurines; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Ducks; Vortella Cowboys; Vortella Cowboys & Indians; Vortella Plastic; Vortella Wild West; Witch; Xandria; Xandria - Holland; Xandria Key Chain; Xandria Key Rings; Xandria Key-Fob; Xandria Pixies; Yolanda; Yolanda Pink Panther;
Further to Spectrum Steve's ID of the Pink Panther as being Dinky, I shot him with a few others which have come in recently, and so above, from the left we have Yolanda large and Yolanda small; both in the style of bendies, but actaully 'solids' from Spain, a duplicate key ring from a set we saw a year or two ago, another key-ring, probably Hong Kong, but new to me and then the Dinky, on the end.

While the bad guy from the Black Caldron cereal premiums in the same post hadn't been undercoated for painting, well, actually he had . . . but that wasn't the comment-worthy thing about him - he was a home-cast copy in solid pewter/whitemetal!

Bertje Big; Characatures; Character Key Rings; Cinderella; De Betuwe Jam; Dinky Pink Panther; Dutch Key Rings; Dutch Novelties; Dutch Toys; Flipje Betuwe; Grimm's Fairy Tale; Grocer Krent; Hubley Duck; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Key Chains; Key Rings; Key-Fobs; Klaas Ram; Klaus Ram; Krent Kruidenier; Krent The Grocer; Pied Piper of Hamlyn; Pink Panther; Pink Panther Figures; Pink Panther Key Rings; Pink Panther Novelties; Pixy; Plastic Duck; PVC Characters; PVC Figurines; PVC Plastic Toy Figurines; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Ducks; Vortella Cowboys; Vortella Cowboys & Indians; Vortella Plastic; Vortella Wild West; Witch; Xandria; Xandria - Holland; Xandria Key Chain; Xandria Key Rings; Xandria Key-Fob; Xandria Pixies; Yolanda; Yolanda Pink Panther;
A comparison between the new - white - duck and the older 'Hubley' one in red, except all the Hubley's I can find are shades of brown, or white, while I have black, red and yellow, so possibly a European mould-swap or license involved there? The new one is a nicer sculpt with better wing-definition, and feet - more realistic overall.

Bertje Big; Characatures; Character Key Rings; Cinderella; De Betuwe Jam; Dinky Pink Panther; Dutch Key Rings; Dutch Novelties; Dutch Toys; Flipje Betuwe; Grimm's Fairy Tale; Grocer Krent; Hubley Duck; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Key Chains; Key Rings; Key-Fobs; Klaas Ram; Klaus Ram; Krent Kruidenier; Krent The Grocer; Pied Piper of Hamlyn; Pink Panther; Pink Panther Figures; Pink Panther Key Rings; Pink Panther Novelties; Pixy; Plastic Duck; PVC Characters; PVC Figurines; PVC Plastic Toy Figurines; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Ducks; Vortella Cowboys; Vortella Cowboys & Indians; Vortella Plastic; Vortella Wild West; Witch; Xandria; Xandria - Holland; Xandria Key Chain; Xandria Key Rings; Xandria Key-Fob; Xandria Pixies; Yolanda; Yolanda Pink Panther;
I've also had a few more of the approximately 54mm Xandria's come in since Theo's stuff was posted, I think I said four were in the post at the time, but I forgot I'd had a fifth come in with a mixed Key-ring lot, a while ago; the lady on the left.

From the left; Unknown (Cinderella trying on the slipper from the fairy tale 'Pixies'?), Krent Kruidenier (Krent the grocer. a De Betuwe jam premium, seen before), Pied Piper of Hamlyn (Grimm's?), Bertje Big (Bertie Pig (?), another De Betuwe jam premium) and a Witch - another fairy tale Pixie?

Note Bertje's over-all PVC-vinyl trousers, the pattern making him look just like Podgy Pig from Rupert Bear, in his tweeds, who - when rendered in colour - is also often drawn as white, rather than pink? As Rupert dates from the 1920's, any plagiarism is Dutch I'm afraid! But, 1950's fashion on the farm, where you find pigs . . . I suspect more of a parallel evolution, there's only so many ways to anthropomorphise an animal so it's still recognisable!

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