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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.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

S is for Sorry, I'm Having a Rather Lazy Week!

I've just sat here for two hours and not posted anything, as I also couldn't be arsed to this afternoon before I went to work, but here's something from the unsorted folder!

Domage et Cie ('et Compagnie, like our &Co.,), who would go on to be known as  Aludo, producing aluminium toys, then Acédo, as a producer of polymer-acetate figures, were first branded D et C, where they could be found making these pastoral subjects, among other things, also in an early plastic, but with more of a recycled polystyrene feel?. Here the shepherd meets his paramour, while the farmer's not around!

Beautifully marked-up on the base, leaving no real doubt as to their lineage! And only about 60-mil, so a nice 54mm without the heavy bases, which have been modelled to resemble turned-wood! 'Unbreakable' it says (in French, and they know what they're talking about, they all speak it!), and to be fair, neither of these has any damage, but both Domage! And are they replacing earlier wooden or composition figures from the same line?

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