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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.

Friday, March 8, 2024

S is for Seen Elswhere - Juguetes ALB

I wasn't sure if these were the Argentinian ALB figures or not, as the only other sample I know of, didn't have any sailors! However, I posted them elsewhere - or at least the dirty line-up, I've since cleaned them - and they were confirmed by another Walter; Walter Rodriguez!

Best described as baby-faced, they are clearly little caricatures, rather in the same vein as the terracotta figures from Spain, which we have seen here several times, and may make excellent adult supervisors for the bubble-gum babies, which we haven't seen here yet, but there’s a tub of them somewhere!

Those other samples;

https://soldaditossudamericanos.blogspot.com/search/label/%28C%29%20Juguetes%20ALB

And I think we're looking at, from left to right, merchant marine, two Argentine Navy, Summer Dress and a civilian pleasure-boat skipper? He's 55mm, the other three closer to 60-mil, and they are a rather sticky PVC.

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