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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, December 17, 2023

K is for Kemlows Illustrations?

These photographs are a sort of mystery, clearly sequential with those seen in the Brookes' book on Kemlows, but not apparently the actual shots used, I suspect they were sold to me by the Brookes, at the Alresford toy train day, many years ago, and while I say they are a bit of a mystery, I vaguely recall a shoebox type thing with pictures for sale?
 
Anyway, they were in the archive and can be shared with you after scanning.






So, for instance with this last one, in the book you get two shots, one of the five box types found, the other an end-on shot of the cycle rack with two green and two blue bicycles, neither with the white mudguards? The weird thing is, I would say all six of these shots are better than the corresponding ones in the book?

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