I think these came from Chris Smith (or one
of the other kind donators?), and while they don't actually belong together,
they nevertheless go-together very well. The skeleton is missing an arm but
from the holes in the other three limbs I suspect he came originally as a sort
of string-puppet with a simple cross and maybe four, or five strings? The coffin would suit a fat man in
54mm!
The coffin is marked-up Swizzles Matlow (who may still exist?
You can still get Drumstick lolly's!)
and has Bone Shakers on the lid.
Inside the lid is a picture which looks like one of those Kinder toys where
interlocking flat pieces make-up with ball-and-socket joints to a sort of poppet-doll,
but I vaguely recall these as being more candy puzzles where you make up the
skeleton as a loose puzzle and then eat him; limb by limb!
MPC's 60mm Vampire is trying to work out how to get in before dawn brakes!
Yellow plastic - bugger to photograph!
Both charity shop purchases I think, both
'new' over-stock/clearance, rather than donations from the general public, the Tesco skeletons glow in the dark, the
Claire's Accessories skeleton mermaids are either rainbow chrome/anodised or pure
bismuth, but can you shape-form bismuth like that?
These have all come in over the last
12-months (I think?) although we've seen the smaller plastic one before as he's
a colour-variation duplicate. Not sure where they all came from but thanks to
Adrian, Brian, Chris, Jim, Peter and Trevor should cover it, and I may have
found some myself!
The skull is a glow-in-the-dark novelty
probably from a larger gum-ball machine, while the bigger skeleton seems to be
a bookmark, maybe designed for jacket-pockets , collars or neck-lines? Although
he looks quite new, he's marked Hong Kong so he dates from when most, or a lot
of schools still had jackets!
