I is for Italian Rack Toy

We've had this before but it was years ago and I shot it again while shooting a load of other stuff the other day, so we're having it again!

Cane (as in canine, ie 'dog' or hound, hence the brand-mark) were prodigious producers of rack toys, so the fact I only have the one is slightly remiss of me, but then there's lots out there in Internetland, indeed Mr Sell hoovered them all up and pretended they were his a year or two ago so they are all plagiarised in one place somewhere on shitestuff!

I picked this up back when I was a small scale-only collector and there are no figures, even though -  as Grisoni - Cane did do some smallish 'combat' Marine figures which could have occupied one of the blisters here?

The vehicles, clockwise from top left; A vaguely AMX turret on an upside-down Lilo provides the heavy armour, a Whites Scout Car/Bedford truck hybrid sits above a French municipal rubbish-van, the Jeep's actually not bad compared to the others and while the Saracen is recognisable, equally it has more in common with the locally produced vehicles of the inter-war uprisings of the 1920/30's than anything used in Northern Ireland!

My favourite, the smallest non-Hong Kong copy I know-of, of what is clearly the 1-Ton Humber from Dinky, in this case probably via Sam Toys own copy, but much reduced and simplified, or Matchbox but theirs was a radio-shack body, the Dinky was the GS 'pick-up'.

A is for Apropos . . .

. . . a couple of 'follow ups' that I flagged I'd post last week - and yesterday!

Apropos the Dulcop 50-mils I got off Andreas at Plastic Warrior two weeks ago; . . .

Here are a few different-sized versions of what are ultimately all Marx piracies, although some sources think Elio Simonetti (not Emlio! Suckers . . . not shadowing me much!) may have sculpted for Marx, so they'd all be his work, as Musgrave, Erikson or Stadden also repeated favourite poses.

There's little between the three ranges - a couple of pose changes or plastic colour variations, the Dulcop set is the more original with new poses, and the lasso pose has a holster on the right hip and a left arm bent the other way.

The Italians on their own.

Apropos yesterday's post on the mini, white-metal, circus stuff I got at Sandown Park this weekend just gone; here's a line-up of the elephants currently known in the same sculpt!