As loyal readers know I didn't start
collecting large scale (apart from a composition Cossack, Tim Mee Jap' and a couple of hollow-cast on display in my old
kitchen) until after I started the blog back in 2009/10, so I've only been at
this 'full-on' malarkey for a decade, but I seem to have picked-up a few Wild
West women and when I was sorting the Wild West a couple'o months ago, I shot some
of them together before splitting them up.
Not only are they mostly Marx, they are
mostly Dale Evans . . . how boring! No, but several of them are, and from the
left we have;
Marx 60mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [early] Playsets
- PVC vinyl-rubber*
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, earlier, painted
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, re-issue
Marx 54mm Dale Evans - Roy Rogers [late] Playsets
- polyethylene, re-issue
Koho 70mm Calamity Jane - polyethylene,
early, painted
Marksmen 60mm - ex-Marx Town - polyethylene
re-issue (via Rado/Ri-Toys)
Marx 60mm Townswoman - Town sets - chalky
polyethylene (Swansea?)
Marx 60mm Cowgirl - Ranch Cowboys - polyethylene
(re-issue?)**
Marx 60mm Cowgirl - Special Town + Sets - PVC
vinyl-rubber (paint may be home-added)
*early version, later mouldings had an
added base/stand
** I don't know what she's supposed to ride but she fits several of my hippo's and a extra-large lion!
I also have this poor casualty, and she's a
casualty twice-over having been apparently sculpted as a casualty, and then
lost a hand and a foot due to the brittleness of the material coupled with
rough handling!
I am assuming she's a [Ron] Barzo piece, being sculpted in a two-part epoxy/PU-resin, but she
could be a garage/aftermarket or home-sculpted piece? If Barzo she may be a one-per-box from one from his big boxed play
sets? Not that she is definitely Wild West even; he did many other 'horse &
musket' periods/theatres including pirates?
In the searching for the Koho (Koch und Hofmockel) babe's details I managed to ID two others, both
from the smaller 54mm line, and after this shot was taken a yellow 60mm Indian with
lance turned-up, along with another 54mm cowboy, same pose, so; another growing
corner of the collection!
Some cruder-looking versions of the 54mm
were issued in France as premiums by Jeunesse, who are still going in the health & beauty market which makes the issue of Wild
West figures a strange promotion in any age, you'd expect something like
costume dolls from the sexism that drove 1950/60's marketing; maybe they
launched an aftershave or men's deodorant, or something like that? Kid's bubble-bath or toothpaste?
