Continuing the 'show and tell's' from Brian's holiday in Italy earlier this year, and we come to what he found on the retail front, or at least some of it, there's more to come! The first seven images are of the window of a toy shop in Naples, the only one Brian found, suspecting Italian kids have mostly gone on-line to find their toys?
These first three shots seem to be mostly Schliech and/or Papo types (double -checking the shots; mostly Papo), and while nothing to write home about, they make a fine, and colourful display! A mix of Romans, medievals, fantasy and a few Pirates.
The other four look to be more domestic, and a mix of resin and whitemetal, some maybe locally commissioned? Two Napoleonic Brit's looking a little out of place in Naples! I can't make out the name on the labels in the background of one of the shots, can any Italian readers help out?
The above were to be found in the gift-shop at Pompeii, where the little four-euro one would seem to be role-playing size (28/35mm), and the other four are antiqued in the style of antiquities, but not copies of them, having a modern styling/sculpture. I suspect resin for the teeny and a base metal for the four fake-bronzes?
This is the window of a shop in Capri, and again a mix of metal and poured-resin, we will be looking at the eight-euro black knight in a further post, in fact it'll be a good excuse to dig out a few more and do what I did with the ceremonial odds-n-sods the other day!
In Brian's own words -
"The [...] shot of red cardinals and chili peppers for some strange reason figure big in Amalfi Coast culture.", there are more ecclesiastic subjects to come, from the trip.
These two were found in a shop outside the Pompeii site, and may have more basis in actual artefacts or monumental masonry of the time, also resin, I think anyone who likes ancients needs one of these in their collection!
Thanks to Mr Berke as always, you can't beat a roving reporter who roves and reports! Cheers Brian!
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