A household name slowly going global with
the aid of the Internet, Lakeland (who have nothing to do with the - actually - Derwent pencils)
and have grown from an almost nothing agricultural supplier to what they are well within my lifetime. they
regularly have a bit of Chinashite in their catalogue/stores at Christmas, and
I think this is probably quite resent; 1990's maybe, 2000's?
Poured resin, decorated in muted pastel
shades; there's something a bit pre-Raphaelite about them! With a minimal count
of eight pieces, despite a extra lamb on the cover art, they were probably less
new, than I paid for them, and I didn’t pay much!
The close-ups; all rather white and
pink-cheeked I think it can be said, but the sculpting is fine enough, and
Joseph's walking cane is a brass rod. To keep the sets body-count down the lamb
came by himself . . . the shepherds', having washed their socks, had nothing
dry to walk in!
Gabriel is particularly nice, and would
make a good stand-alone fantasy figure summoning a host of otherworldly High Elves
to save . . . Riverdeep? The only problem with that plan is that these are
100mm figurines, you'd need a garden for a war-games table, if you could find and afford the other figures - actually, there's all that ELC stuff, Schleich and Papo . . . it could be done!
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