I shot this on Mercator Trading's table at Sandown Park last November as a new to hobby name, so it should be newish to Internet and is certainly new to Blog! Lambert Brothers of Acton, North London, nothing else known!
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- 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, March 1, 2025
L is for Lambert . . . or Their Toys!
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I realise this is not the right place for this, except perhaps for it being an "L is for": Some time ago you discussed at length the slightly obscure logo of Lik-Be, and I think you eventually favoured LB over LP (sorry if I have misunderstood). Anyway, I recently noticed that on August 9th 2024 Ed Berg's blog showed a particularly deep and clear stamping of that logo, under the base of the LP 60mm nickel plated astronaut (rather than being a blurred print on paper). Of interest is not just the letters themselves (more P than B?) but the shape of the "giant's" head and outline, and the backing pattern in those places where it is not hidden by the body/arms of the figure (including under arm?)
Yes Robert, it's LB for err . . . Lik Be! It's not a debate which needs to be had, I too have found and published here, good printed markings and clear base markings, but for it to remain 'LP' we have to chuck common sense out of the window and assume the horizontal of the L is as long or longer than the vertical, just not a graphical reality, unless the artist also extends similarly the bulb of the P. Accepting there is the lower bulb of a B hidden in the 'rays' allows the L to be a sensible shape. B of Be, it's not rocket science!
It's quite clear here;
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2023/07/lb-is-for-lik-be.html
equally clear here;
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2019/08/lb-is-for-sorry-but-it-really-is.html
And really I can't see why people are struggling to accept what is obvious, the logo, printed or on bases, has never been clear, something only made worse by a layer of chromium plate! For the first 15 years of the hobby everyone, including me thought it was ID, IDL or ID Ltd., (Except Kent Spreacher who was still calling them "IDL?" in February 2020!), it was after three-way correspondence between myself, Vic Rudic and the Editor of Plastic Warrior magazine, around 2000/2001 that LP was settled-upon as the more sensible interpretation, now we know it's Lik Be, trying to pretend it is still a P is plain stupid!
I notice you have a locked profile, and as a recent commenter, on the same subject each time (Ed's blog, of which I am quite supportive of, without help), I'd hate to succumb to my cynicism and conclude you were a shill, and tell whoever cowardly put you up to this, to do their own dirty work?
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