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!
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!
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.
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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