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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.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

G is for Gonfalonieri

Standard Bearers! Shot these at one of the London shows last year, I think they were King & Country, very nice but hideously expensive poured-metal!


Italian standard-bearers of the age of the Landsknechts, a German-Swiss word, while Gonfalonier is Italian, I think! Factory-painted whitemetal in the 'Big 54mm' - a silly phrase for 60mm figures! Love the novelty on the end, I don't know the history behind him, but I assume some memento of one of the old Russel Square toy soldier shows?

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