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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

F is for Follow-up and Fervent, Faithful Flag-waving, Fifes & Drums!

I think I mentioned back in the autumn, or possibly during Rack Toy Month that one of my bad habits is to post something, then, after I've alerted/reminded you all of them/the subject, go off to evilBay and see what's [still] there! I did it after the AWI post the other day, and managed to find a charity lot (yellow & blue ribbon icon) with six sets of cake decorations!

1776; Abe Lincoln; American Bicentennial; American Revolution; American Toy Figures; American War of Independence; AWI; Betsy; Bicentennial; By Emilie; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Decorative Ornaments; Drummer; Drummers; Emilie; Flag Barer; Flag Bearer; Hand Painted; Hong Kong; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Lik Be; Lik Be Cake Decorations; Lik Be LB; Lik Be LP; Men of '76; Midget Widgets; Novelties; Revolutionary War; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spirit of '76;

Among which were these three, so I grabbed the lot (cheap, buy-it-now) and they got here a couple of days ago. It's some of the other Sprit of '76 branded stuff, with the figures I described the other day as "...short-fat-kid caricatures", here - on the left - a patriotic flag waving lady-girl and what is their fifth drummer - within the line. On the right we have patriotically-dressed kissin' cousin's!

1776; Abe Lincoln; American Bicentennial; American Revolution; American Toy Figures; American War of Independence; AWI; Betsy; Bicentennial; By Emilie; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Decorative Ornaments; Drummer; Drummers; Emilie; Flag Barer; Flag Bearer; Hand Painted; Hong Kong; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Lik Be; Lik Be Cake Decorations; Lik Be LB; Lik Be LP; Men of '76; Midget Widgets; Novelties; Revolutionary War; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spirit of '76;

Flag lady could double as a pencil top, while the seat of the kissing pair is of more interest, as I have suggested for years that the based-set of Airfix piracies are by Lik Be, due to the similarity of the bases to both the marked robot/alien types and the late set of two astronauts and flag with lunar lander, or at least (as it was in One Inch Warrior magazine I think, so years ago and 'LP') that the maker of the astronauts was the same as the maker of the Airfix Washington's Army pirates . . .

1776; Abe Lincoln; American Bicentennial; American Revolution; American Toy Figures; American War of Independence; AWI; Betsy; Bicentennial; By Emilie; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Decorative Ornaments; Drummer; Drummers; Emilie; Flag Barer; Flag Bearer; Hand Painted; Hong Kong; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Lik Be; Lik Be Cake Decorations; Lik Be LB; Lik Be LP; Men of '76; Midget Widgets; Novelties; Revolutionary War; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spirit of '76;

. . . and here, courtesy of Bill B's catalogue is the same bench-settee/love-seat, now providing a place of repose for an elderly couple, in a Lik Be trade advertisement. So I get to use the 'Told you so' tag which annoys some people; but it's the reason I use it!

Clearly LiK Be were supplying (among 'ethylene monsters, 'styrene space stuff and 'funimals' in both polymers) a lot of the wishy-washy white polystyrene plastic cake decorations carried by many brands both sides of the pond.

1776; Abe Lincoln; American Bicentennial; American Revolution; American Toy Figures; American War of Independence; AWI; Betsy; Bicentennial; By Emilie; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Decorative Ornaments; Drummer; Drummers; Emilie; Flag Barer; Flag Bearer; Hand Painted; Hong Kong; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Lik Be; Lik Be Cake Decorations; Lik Be LB; Lik Be LP; Men of '76; Midget Widgets; Novelties; Revolutionary War; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spirit of '76;

While these might be by another maker and are obviously another brand, the reverse of the card says "made and packed in Hong Kong", so Emilie is probably a pseudonym for dozens of outworkers!

I'm guessing we have Betsy and Abe here! But the same over-sentimentalised 'kidults', this time with just the big heads, and the painting of the Lincoln-alike hasn't reached the 'stars & stripes' excesses of the Spirit figures!

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