Continuing with the Sandown plunder from September (next one's three weeks away, this Saturday!), and this would normally be the last post in the sequence, but I haven’t got the images ready on the other two, so, here's the odds and sods.
Martin Fahie had put these to one side for me, and they are all Hong Kong production, and all enhancing existing samples, some of which we have seen here already, and I have taken follow-up shots with some of the bits from the storage unit, so that'll be forthcoming in the near future.
Lido space werhickle! Missing one of it's two plug-ins, but takes my sample over the basic four, and allows for chopping and changing for future shots. What I think is the engine nacelle/venturi for the Dalek lander-'Mechanoid' from
Cherilea, which is another useful spare in that sample, which you have watched grow, almost in real time.
And a pretty clean and undamaged Hilco Martian, and one of two poses most likely to be found damaged, again a collection which has grown from almost naught, with the Blog, to over a dozen with damaged examples. And I believe his helmet will be following shortly (three weeks!).
Three of the larger set (scale/size wise)
Noddy in Toyland/Toytown figurines, made in Hong Kong, and in the style of some
Marx production, but nothing is known of the maker, as far as I know, nor do I know how many are in the set (nor a total for the smaller set), but they are slowly growing as a sample!
Probably the best find of the show? We've seen the White Rabbit before, first as a single, phenolic or early styrene, with good detail, then as a mass produced lesser quality ethylene moulding, in the set of educational oddities, now I find these?
A stretched Alice, lays in front, awaiting glue, with from the left (best to open the image); White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts (first book), Cheshire Cat, Hookah-smoking Caterpillar, one of the Kings, Mad Hatter, Playing Card Guard (near-flat, although they are all demi-ronde), Red Queen (second book) and the Mock Turtle.
One might think board game pieces, but if the colours are a clue, it's not a game for three equal players, nor any even number of players, but are all the pieces here? They are old, and with characters like the Dormouse, Tweedle brothers, White Queen, and another King or two 'missing', they may be from a larger set, and while board game is still a best bet, they are quite small, no more than 20mm?
We've seen the pixie before, but in a darker red, this one is
Ready Brek glowing! A puppy jumper - while it was OK to start collecting the
LB copy jumpers, and the bug-eyed aliens were/are fun, it seems jumpers are to join white-button toys (two lots coming soon - Halloween!), as a peripheral sub-collection! And what I suspect is one of the few lose
Corgi figurals previously missing from the stash, everybody's favourite villain -
Dick Dastardly!
A couple of Euro-premiums from one or two different building sets.
Civilians; an unknown nurse (
Atlantic like, but I don't think she's theirs,
Charbens again?),
Britains arctic explorer, a huge copy of the
Corgi ice-cream seller, I guess
Lucky or similar? Then the tramp/hobo from
Hilco (? It's from the
Johillco hollow-cast moulding), a mother and child, probably from a US model car kit, and a recent farm worker which I think we saw in
Padgett Brothers/A-Z packaging, a few years ago? In front, a
Britains cyclist.
The long arm of the law! Three
Lines Tri-Ang Motorway, with a bugler (I think they only ever looked like that in kids' comics!), one
Corgi Junior, two
Hornby Dublo/Meccano and a pair of
Merit/Model Scene, with the WPC snapped of at her shapely ankles - ouch!
Other railway/small scale figures included a
Blue Box mechanic, several
Merit, a metal
Wardie/Masternodels railway staffer, the
Hornby Hobbies Hong Kong sourced moped rider and two machines (shared with at least two other brands), the boy with horses from the
Britains Miniset, and a seated
Airfix passenger.
Odds! The cactus may be new on me, but it may just be home-paint bamboozling me! Common bit of fence and a couple of weapons from 3/4" action figures I guess. All in all, some nice bits, the Alice Looking Glass/Wonderland set is the definite highlight, anybody know anything else about it?
