Given that I got a shed-load of good stuff yesterday and still have to clear the Plastic Warrior Show stuff first, I'm rather glad to be putting May's plunder-posts to bed! Mostly civil subjects, with a couple of oddments, there were one or two treasures among them.
This was one of those frustrations, only associated with those who don't carry a farty, nerdy 'wants' list around with them . . . step-up that man, 'cos it's me! The seller had several of these, but I really couldn't remember which ones I already had, and thought this looked like one I didn't, when I did, doh! And while I looked for them again yesterday, I didn't see them!
Should hold this for
ITLAPD, but there's some nice stuff lined-up this year, so they can go here, they are soft, PVC, factory-painted, generic versions of the unpainted
Webb's Supertoy pirate set, which is also still contemporary, somewhere, as both me and Peter Evans have been finding them.
Tudor Rose seesaw, I got it primarily to help ID the babies, and was surprised to find they are PVC like the
Thomas ones (I was expecting polyethylene), which means I'll have to be doubly careful, when I come to sort all the pink babies!
Also, it's a bit odd that both companies chose a material which can melt the accompanying polystyrene toys they all came with, but then, at the time of manufacture, neither knew the potential for the melting, which AFV kit owners would be learning about by the 1970's! Not to forget the proud owners of Action Man diving suits - that sticky, orange hood!
Unpainted castings of possibly game-playing pieces, but I have to compare them with the
Lilliput one, before I decide if they aren't actually just home-piracies of the
Britains ones? If they are copies, I might paint them up, at some point in the future, before the task is beyond my eyesight!
These are composition, and a pumice type, which suggests British or French production, but the little red collars mirror those of wooden
erzgebirge stuff, so they maybe from the Ore Mountains area of Saxony (Germany) or Bohemia (the Czech Republic - formally Czechoslovakia)?
The two nearest the camera are larger and lack the scenic bases, and also might be bisque porcelain or chalkware, they seem a little harder (but you don't casually test things this small) so I bagged them separately.
Some Japanese stuff I guess?, I don't know if they all go together or not, some are harder, some softer, some have pencil-holes, some don't, a few won't stand up, alone, some are transparent, others opaque, so I arbitrarily grouped them into three for shooting, and await further info' on what they actually are!
Circus! A
Frazer & Glass clown, who has no signs of being glued to any of the accessories, or his compatriots, so one assumes that when they were being sold from the glass-compartmented shelf-displays in Woolworth's, you could purchase single, unadorned clowns?
Of course you could, and he was in the sets as well; A1 Clown!
Two of the Merit 'Travelling Circus' wagons, which gave rise to various Hong Kong copies, both of the wagons as wagons, and as trains, and a lovely spirit-painted, wheeled, Japanese novelty, a celluloid blow-mould, of a monkey, in a fez, on a hobbyhorse, of course and why not!
These are definitely bisque, and probably French
fèves, fox-hunters in hunting pink, with their hounds, around 35mm, they are a bit bigger than the common, modern fèves, so may have been more decorative, or even cake decorations, in which case they may be British; but, they need black boots? These were a lovely find,
Sima (
Sixtus
Maier, of Fürth, Germany) model railway flats, these were made for
Märklin HO railways, back in the 1950's, although they measure a little larger, and presumably pre-date
Märklin's own sets, and the similar
Wettig sets? Note how the gosling doubles as a rearing chick!
I found another bird on the floor and retook the image, but the colour is all wrong, so I left it down here, purely for compleat'ness!
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