B is for Blue Bird, not Bluebird, or is it Telsalda?

About two years ago I put a few people (Deadleaf and a couple of others) right on New Maries one of the Hong Kong plastic companies we've managed to ID thanks to Bill B's catalogue, and while they haven't done much with the information, you can imagine my surprise when I saw them being described as "...the father of Telsalda" earlier today, with absolutely no empirical evidence, nor a credit as to where they got New Maries!?

 

Especially as Telsalda are a jobber of the old type, jobbing product to third parties. By which I mean we who tend to call what the Americans tend to call a 'jobber' (or 'jogger' if you are one Mr. Sell!) an 'importer/wholesaler', but Telsalda would have been a jobber to the Brit's as well, jobbing stuff to buyers, at the toy fairs, down in Kowloon harbour, or out of offices in the Toy Building - 200 Fifth Avenue, I don't know that, but it's likely, if you find Telsalda in the US? But this and the fire engine/bus we've seen here, are all UK-oriented.

Yet we can see them here as a sticker on something brand-marked to a Blue Bird Toys? Do Blue Bird also claim New Maries as a Father too? Or Mother perhaps? No, not that Blue Bird Toys are any more or less likely to be an actual branded factory than Telsalda or any number of other brand-marks, phantom brands or flags-of-convenience!

 

Airfix piracy, an almost full set, with the possibly missing figures as speculative text? You also get five balls, might there have been ten? And who policed them, did the shopkeeper have a big sign saying something like "Balls behind the counter, only for purchases of five or more figures"?

 

These are neither the marked ones in pastel colours we've seen before here, nor the ones from the Mike Orchard Enterprises board game, but a third type altogether, and like an idiot I didn't compare with either, so we'll have to return to them another day. I'd say, quality wise, they are between the other Hong Kong and the Mike Orchard?

 

From both sides, Blue Bird footballers, being jobbed by Telsalda, no New Maries involved. Stop makin' it up, guys! You'll always be found out. That's three posts today, all basically correcting other people's rubbish or dispelling myths, it gets boring.

New Maries are best known for Blue Box knock-off farm and zoo, with the odd Noah's ark set and a range of swoppet Wild West they may have bought in, themselves. Telsalda put their name on Jimson stuff, Guiterman stuff, Blue Bird stuff, Ri Toys stuff, and maybe New Maries stuff, but that's the only connection, and you need to provide evidence, not just tell the whole hobby they are Father and Son! There's no real connection.