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Sunday, October 6, 2024

Q is for Question Time - Whimsical Lead

Again, not so much of a question, as I feel these are likely to prove to be Good Soldiers, but they came as a bulk lot of 'shop stock' with no packaging, which would be an uncommon escape from the garage concern that is Good Soldiers, I haven't seen them in Ron's immaculately-cut, foam-lined 'toy soldier' boxes, on his stall either, and they don't seem to be copies of other, older, plastic figures, as his more whimsical, or fairy-tale-TV-Disney stuff tends to be.
 
These are more 'Good Soldier' like, as the two larger bears seem to be taken from a commonish sculpt, both sides of the channel, and both sides of the pond, often found with backwoodsmen or other Wild West, not holding bowls or spoons, mind!
 
And the girl holding a straw boater behind her back also looks vaguely familiar, but as a group a rather nice Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I would add that Baby Bear is doing a pretty good impression of Mary Plain, while Daddy Bear seems to be a stretched Mummy Bear - owch!

Whereas these Rupert the Bear snowball fighters appear to be unique sculpts, in that they weren't cereal premiums or similar as far as I know, The Tournament Collection did a whitemetal set back in the 1980's, but theirs were smoother finished I feel, and all just standing. From the left Rupet, Podgy Pig and the mischief-makers, Freddy & Ferdie Fox, although how you tell them apart is a mystery to me!
 
So anyways, any ideas, on either set, gratefully received!

4 comments:

  1. I am pretty sure the Rupert characters are from Giles Brown of Dorset Castings (now cast by Imperial Miniatures] as I bought a very similar set for my snowball fight game.

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  2. Cheers Mark, that's very likely - given the source - I also have some nice dogs designed for the Britains/Charbens (et al) hunt sets which are Giles work, I think?

    H

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  3. Interesting article that needs some follow-up. Thanks for posting, Hugh.

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  4. Cheers Jan, I was chatting to Adrian of Mercator Trading, a week ago (Sunday) and it seems they are probably all by Giles from Dorset, he was apparently retiring, but has since taken on some new work, so?

    H

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