So, we're into the thematic posts, I hid most of the Pirate shots, this morning, in the ITLAPD zone for next year, so we're down a post, but there's a 'what can you see' shot, now attached to another post! In the meantime - Aminalls! As I called them when I was very small!
Polar Bears! The one on the left is lovely, a bit dirty which gives it a worn apperance, but actually bery few actual bald-patches, a flocked bear, Charbens I think? But done by Wend-Al for zoo gift-shops after they stopped the aluminium production.
I never know with the little one, if it's a Taylor &/or Barratt cub, or from a Corgi Chipperfield's Circus wagon, one day I'll sit down and sort them all out! The other is a PVC chap marked - quite neatly - MADE IN HONG KONG, and could be from one of Tai Sang's brands, for someone else?
Elephants . . . half a Corgi, from the elephant truck, unusual to see it painted as the 'styrene kit, but they do turn-up. The little 'ivorene' one is a charmer, and probably a Christmas cracker charm type thing, but with no charm loop? Top left is a Cadbury's UK Yowie (No.85) elephant (something else in the long-queue, four posts!), while the wooden flats are always reminiscent of childhood, and simpler toys for simpler times!
Cats & Dogs; the two biggies are HK copies as is the little green one (Crescent gun-dog), while the two black-cats (lucky for some) are cracker-novelties and the red one looks like a Euro-premium which has been glued to something? White is the Matchbox gun-dog.
Always nice to get a bit of poultry, especially when you don't recognise most f it, nor the parrot (Playmobil?), while the little hen is a less-common Hong Kong copy of the earlier Britains one from the hollow-cast original!
A couple of PVC-alike smallimals!
Aquatics, the crab is an old rubber 'jiggler', he's lost his two rear claw-things, but as they were his eleventh and twelfth limbs . . . possibly a good thing! I jest, always accept a first sample of anything with gratitude, and the whole point of rubber jigglers was that they should be as 'horrific' as possible, so limb-counts being way-off is par for the course!
The large horse on the left is marked 'Singapore', and will be a Blue Box or Redbox animal, from which the Japanese Officer's horse seems to have been taken? Small horse is Renold's composition in very good nick, while I'm pretty sure the large, hollow, two-part, polystyrene pig is from a Tri-Ang tin-plate pick-up/farm truck?
And so soon after Stephen Hawley had a horses-head in his bed . . . I get one too! Obviously a plug-in, but for what? Anyone got a clue? Soft PVC, or the 'paint-your-own set variety?
The two damaged ones are from R&L type premiums, the monkey is standard weight-filler/box-filler in those generic Noah's Ark playsets, and the lion will probably be another cracker-toy, the mini-jiggler crocodile/alligator will be a similar capsule toy?
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