Welp. Cleared some crap out of Picasa yesterday! But I'm running-about today, so don't expect the same posting rate! Here's another bunch of the odds from the recent Sandown Park show, and it's the civilian stuff.
I'm pretty sure these are French
Dinky/Hornby (
Meccano), but a quick Google just questioned that belief, I couldn't find them, although Google is so commercialised and generally shit these days, that's an indicator of nothing!
I have a larger sample in storage (these aren't that rare), and have had them for years, and I'm sure I found them or someone told me they were French Dinky, but they could be someone else? They are O-Gauge railway figures, and a vinyl rubber, of the old-school, quite dense/rigid, but stable (no weeping oily shite) type, and there were two tranches/issues, one with the little domed, concave cavity in the base, the others flat-bottomed.
Not sure on these either, I'm pretty sure they aren't the
Marx set, one's similar, but the other isn't, and orange isn't a colour that associated with
Marx, but they are more likely a US maker, than Hong Kong, just from the detail level?
One day I'll have to bring all the American Football players together, which will force me to research them properly, at which point I'll probably find a web-site with many more than me, that ID's all of them! And thanks to Gareth Morgan for these two, he let me pick through a mixed lot he'd found.
Copies of the
Marx Power Mite road menders (two to the left), and a knock-off of the
Blue Box copy of a
Dinky to the right. One day I'll have to do a page or post just on the three -
Dinky,
Marx,
Blue Box and all the copies!
Merit newspaper seller from the magnetic
Driving Test game, a pretty-good knock-off of the
Britains farm-girl, and another cracker-sized athlete.
Another question-mark here, it's not the common
Hornby-Triang set, still being issued today I think, included with most of the steam locomotives, and many train-sets, so maybe
Playcraft,
Bachmann, or someone like
Jouef? Driver, fireman, and some accessories for the locomotive?
These are also a bit of a mystery. The figure sets, as accessory sets, were vinyl, and issued on small runners, so I think these hard polystyrene examples must have been from a gift-set of some kind, it needs a
Corgi expert, which I'm not!
Four bits of metal, the first is probably a coalman from one of the British minor-make wagon/cart toys in slush-cast lead or die-cast mazac/zamak, the little lead/whitemetal ringmaster, might be a cake decoration? But doesn't look to be that old, while the other two are obviously modern, aftermarket accessories for model racing cars, being Graham Hill in white, and . . . Andretti or Villeneuve, senior? Looks like Senna (
again), but the helmet would/should be yellow?
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