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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label CF 3D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CF 3D. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

H is for How They Come In - The Mixed Lot

So, we've had the first post-lockdown Charity-shop purchase post, but it's been a month now, so there have been three more trips to town, three more trips round the Charity shops, I haven't managed the Phyllis Tuckwell shop as it's keeping limited hours so I keep missing it, and I keep having to queue at Britsh Heart Foundation, but have managed to find a few bits!

3D Puzzle; Brindflor; CF 3D; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Lisbon; Pachycephalosaurus; Portugal; Portuguese; Premiums; Puzzle Toys; Schleich Cheetah Cub; Schleich Wildlife; Schleich Zoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
I can't remember which shop which lot came from, but there were purchases in the three I got to, and due to the dearth of stuff since March, I grabbed what I could find and there's here in the order I shot them and then collaged them.

Four bears . . . well, to be accurate four bears a rabbit and a duckling! Three makers, no marks, resin, 50p each, probably originally closer to 8-quid a'piece in a jewellers window! The bears were three from one store and one from another.

3D Puzzle; Brindflor; CF 3D; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Lisbon; Pachycephalosaurus; Portugal; Portuguese; Premiums; Puzzle Toys; Schleich Cheetah Cub; Schleich Wildlife; Schleich Zoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Nice to get something Portuguese in the tag list, even though it’s probably a contract from 4D (who we've seen before here) abck in China, here branded to CF 3D, and imported by Brindflor of Lisboa (Lisbon), it's very similar to the Kangaroo/Wallaby we saw here a while back - also from a charity shop!

3D Puzzle; Brindflor; CF 3D; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Lisbon; Pachycephalosaurus; Portugal; Portuguese; Premiums; Puzzle Toys; Schleich Cheetah Cub; Schleich Wildlife; Schleich Zoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
If you're wondering why I took such shitty shots of this on chip-paper, it's actually a sheet of stiff gold paper someone used to wrap some stuff in on a feebleBay purchase, and I thought it would make a good backdrop, but it was matt-gold, and just bleached out under the flash, leaving a rather drab view - soz! It's probably why the box shots are a bit fuzzy too?

P is for Portuguese Pachycephalosaurus!

3D Puzzle; Brindflor; CF 3D; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Lisbon; Pachycephalosaurus; Portugal; Portuguese; Premiums; Puzzle Toys; Schleich Cheetah Cub; Schleich Wildlife; Schleich Zoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Schleich cheetah cub; the orange is some kind of staining which I will try to remove with the laundry product for felt-tips and marker-pens! Isn't it lovely!

3D Puzzle; Brindflor; CF 3D; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Lisbon; Pachycephalosaurus; Portugal; Portuguese; Premiums; Puzzle Toys; Schleich Cheetah Cub; Schleich Wildlife; Schleich Zoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Finally a bag'O'shite, but it has a bear, two cereal premiums and a Kinder or two, so nothing lost, god knows what the ghost in a pink shell is all about, but I think it may be another cereal premium, glows in the dark, may have a bit of age about it and is clearly missing half its shell  . . . hey-ho! The actually rather well-executed zebra is either a fancy paper-clip or a hair clip!