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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.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Q is for Question Time - Spanish . . . ?

These are a bit of fun, as they seem to be copies of the more common terracotta figures, of which a small collection has been growing slowly in these pages, or on this slowly scrolling page?! 60mm, polyethylene, civilian caricatures?
 

They seem to be cake decorations, something I've never considered - do other countries have their own cake decorations? The British and US ones are well documented and easy to find on evilBay, while I've had some luck with Argentinian sets (divers, fairy tales and 'Beatles'), but who else had locally produced, or national-referencing cake decorations, and why are they not annotated on the collecting sites? So, if anyone can add to/explain these two flamenco dancers, I'd be grateful!

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