Because I made a major purchase the day of the show, there's enough for a Circus post this year, instead of shoving them in with the civilian/sports post, and what a purchase it was, and very welcome, even though we've seen all the separate elements before. Fingers crossed they load in the right order . . .
. . . and they did! Wouldn't want to re-sort these one at a time, plays havoc with the formatting! A nicely labeled
Crazy Cown Circus from
Frazer & Glass (
F&G . . . like
LB for
Lik Be, just sort of works, always has!), lovely 1950's (or late 40's?) lining paper/gift wrap on the box, and similar to some Italian stuff we'll be seeing in these show-plunder posts soon.
How you bought your cheap ['er] plastic toys in the years immediately before I was born, loose in a box! Or singly from glass compartments in Woolworth's! A complete set, the seller admitted it's made-up to completeness (I think he has a perfect one in his collection), but after 70-odd yeas I'm not complaining, and would have made it up from my loose ones, if it was incomplete, anyway.
One-ring circus!
Always nicer when it's yours, rather than an Internet image!
Balancing and Tumbling Acts, I don't know what I was thinking the other day, of course you could get a single one, without any signs of glue - the
A1 Clown! But here with base, unlike the baseless one we saw the other day.
Three in line, and note: different spots, shape, base v baseless, cone hat size &etc.
Juggling Acts.
Ringmaster is a standard clown with no top-hat?
But he does have the red trousers.
Equestrian Acts.
Seller had added the band! I have recently come-across a dog, with top hat, in the same vitreous 'styrene, which I believe may be another late addition to this set (to go with/accompany the hoop-clowns?), it's in a forthcoming post, somewhere, I think, if not, I'll dig it out and get it up here with a few links back and forth. On the subject of links, the last time we looked at a few question-marks and variants, on these, was nine years ago;
But the F&G Tag or Crazy Clown Circus will get all the thoughts/posts in one hit!
Another marked
Maysun set, of
Crescent copies, adding confirmation to previous utterings here about them/that! With a couple of loose horse that have good paint, and one will need to be used to replace the brittle on in the bag, whose lost it's legs!
Charbens, a nice clean sample, with opposite colours of both clowns!
Late Corgi, I think, on the left and another M-Toy on the right.
Thanks this year go to, alphabetically by surname, Issack, Graham Apperley, John Begg, Barney Brown, Brian Carrick, Peter Evans, Adrian Little, Michael Mordant-Smith, Trevor Rudkin, Steve Vickers, and with no emails since the intro-post, anyone else who gave me stuff, I've forgotten to add! Thank you all.
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