These are a bit of fun, as they seem to be copies of the more common terracotta figures, of which a small collection has been growing slowly...

Often the section which throws up the more interesting figures, due to the vast numbers of accessory figures from other toys, die-cast vehic...

Not the Confederates mind, the Yanks! "Over paid, over-sexed and over here!" went the saying in the early 1940's! And here we ...

A small victory for my research efforts with this one, as I've had the cutting in the archive since 2005, but have only recently found t...

We looked at the Britains -copy Hawaiian dancers here , and then there was a quick follow-up here , and I've now found this in the archi...

I shouldn't be blogging I should be painting, but I've had a couple of manic days and frankly my brother is being a c**t, so I'v...

I'm not going to suggest Magneto is responsible for all the magnetic novelties copied in Hong Kong from the 1950's until, well, now!...

. . . but we've sort of sorted some of it out, for now! This wasn't in the queue a few days ago! I bought a nice (well; tatty!) ...

I haven't managed (read; wasn't bothered-) to get up to town for a couple of weeks so these are from about three weeks ago? And only...

The Trump spent some time in his election campaign making hay from Obama having got through Three senior bods in eight years (I can't no...