A right-old mix in this post, from the odd rarity, through unusual, to more run-of-the-mill stuff with a current rack toy or two, thrown-in there for good measure, and we'll start with one of them because it was shot first, before I collaged it, and it automatically went to the end of the queue!
Kidzon (which I fear - rather shockingly - is supposed to rhyme with zone) are behind the shipping-in of this little set of construction types from China. A near-1:72nd scale tipper-truck and three new figures, but there are so many construction workers out there, they are running out of decent, unique poses, and two of these look very derivative, but I like the chap with his sledgehammer! Everyone gets a palm-tree these days!
Two large rubber boys, who will be Thomas doll's house accessories, and a 'happy drunk' (I've another come-in recently!), who was - I think - used on ashtrays, phone-stands, visitors card racks and the like.
The pink lady will be from a Monogram, MPC or Pyro car kit, and I always wondered why she always has checked slacks when you see her on modelling forums, and it's because the checks are etched into the moulding! While the pink gent is a - probably French - cyclist, sans bike!
Seated Lido (et all) civi', a Taylor and/or Barratt girl from one of the zoo rides or carts, and the best piece here is the - also probably French - chalkware racing-car drive, he's from quite a big toy too, probably tin-plate, around 1:25th?
Kinder sports above with the 1986 Mexico World Cup mascot; Pique, a jalapeño pepper in a sombrero! Two Judo martial-artists and a cameraman who may not be a sportsman, but is busy filming them all!
More general sportsmen bellow (sorry, no sportswomen this time!), with Merit's 'Everest' boardgame climber, several Subbuteo for those bags, a cracker horse-racer and a PVC-alike footballer, but the stand-out is another of those key-ring fishermen . . .with no rod! I'll find one eventually, they can't be that rare if this is the third! But it seems to be a short-shot thing?
One the left, a margarine premium from Ei-Fein ('fine eggs', presumably to convince you that you can fry eggs with it?) and three Siku railway workers in HO-gauge compatible miniscule'ness.
A mix of non-military stuff here, with a slide from a Hong Kong play-ground set - I've never seen one in the packaging, so I don't know if they came with some of those babies (see below) to play on the equipment, or if it was aimed at model railways, but they are that sort of size, and I have quite a selection somewhere (roundabouts, see-saws, climbing frames etc.), so we will look at them more fully one day.
One definite Kinder Barbie, and a possible second, both sans bases, a small boy in soft rubber/PVC who may be New Ray, Pioneer or similar. Matchbox stretcher bearer / ambulance crewman, a kit figure (flying boat pilot?) and a game-playing piece (purple) I think?
He's been in the general "Thank you" at the bottom of each post, but special shout-out to Michael Mordant-Smith for these, he had a box-full, but spent about 40-minutes sorting through the whole box, when he could have been going round looking for bargains of his own or socialising, getting them all into pairs, I think in the end there were four missing, which I'll track down (hoping one or two may be in my existing, small sample) and then I'll shoot them in their pairs for a major update to the World Dolls page, which has been in the queue for a while. Van Brode cereal and other premiums.
I've passed on these several times on eBay, just because even if the set is cheap, the postage usually isn't, but then these aren't they, these are Hong Kong copies of they, the Tim Mee 'atomic clowns'. There's ten poses in the set, so whether originals or Hong Kong clones, I have a way to go yet!
In front of them a buckshee clowns foot! From a very big figure, one of the larger (not Cherilea)'s Diddymen maybe?
Another carded set, with a knock-off Barbie 'fashion doll' from BJ Toys. A lovely little shooting set with anodised, pressed-tin flats, I think it may be supposed to have a rubber band to fire matchsticks at the animals? And I found Suzy on Steve Vickers' stall, we will look at her fully another day!
Rather fortuitous as I had a post on adult novelties ready to go, as good as, which I've been building for months, and for which I had all the collages and so forth done, it just needed text, but she's been added in and that will come when we get all the show repots out of the way (Sandown still to come), but suffice to say she's quite fun!
A clown walker and Spanish bull-fighting horse (Jecsan or Reamsa?) on the left and a useful firefighter (Deluxe Reading) on the right, useful in that he has a few of the accessories so often missing from these larger figures. We've seen the clown before in a different colour and I surmised then that he was meant to be wearing a pantomime horse round his waist!
So, two Frenchies; one either side, both of which look a bit Starlux'y, but probably aren't, maybe Minialux or early Cofalux for the policeman, and . . . Cyrnos for the girl with teddy (O-gauge?), I think they have usually green or brown bases - any help great fully received.
Between them are three composition/terracotta HO railway figurines which are pretty exquisite, and I think Andreas said they were Fröha, but I may have that wrong and will check with Reinhard Schiffmann's book, they are a better HO than the Berger's we saw last time I got his book out! Actually, I think I last got his book out for some Pfeiffer's, but they don't seem to have made the tag-list?
The yellow polo-player is a copy of a Marx figure I believe, but here found reduced in size and polystyrene, from one of the above-mentioned model-car makers I think, while the large doll's baby is a heavy chunk of composition, maker unknown (but in the dolls world there are many, many composition makers!), and the Hong Kong copy of the Britains Hospital baby is useful (I already have a large bag of such knock-offs) for coming with a stackable bunk-bed/cot!
Thanks to all for everything last month; Peter Evans, Brian
Carrick, Trevor Rudkin, Adrian Little, Andreas
Dittmann, Gareth Morgan and Michael Mordant-Smith.
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