We saw their board game I think, right back at the start of the Blog, so they've been sat there in the Tag-list ever since with a '1' in brackets, let's make it a two with these charmers, which I picked-up on evilBay a while back.
A blended whiskey, originally from the House of Segram (of the whacky buildings), it's now manufactured in Asia/the Far East, where it's one of the best-selling brands.
Added when doing the tags - no, we haven't? Must have been One Inch Warrior or something? Maybe we saw some of the figures in a plunder post, and they weren't tagged? I'll have to blog them at the other end! It was a boardgame anyway!
Flats, but chunky enough to be semi-flats, these cocktail stirrers, or 'swizzle sticks' could be cut to provide figures of around 45mm, and will have been manufactured by some anonymous local fabricator whose name we'll never know.
Worth a mention, to explain the previous line, when I worked at Rotamould (97'ish?), we had another plastics factory a few doors away, and when I worked in an office down the road a few years later there was an injection moulder in the unit ('lot' as the Americans would call it) next door, they have all gone now. While when I found Tatra, their website had a list of the 15-odd companies they had bough-out over a period of about 30 years, they've now been bought-out themselves.
Many people were responsible for the more ephemeral figures/figurals out there, and one can only hope they have another moniker to be known by, as in here, where 100 Pipers will suffice!
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