While I'm playing catch-up with the big shows (after PW, there's another Sandown to cover), there have been other incomings, with both my own and Peter's car-booty to come, various new-production results of shopping trips, and this, a quick pop-over to the teeming metropolis of Reading in April, for the BMSS's annual show, where I found a tub of Circus awaiting me, courtesy of Adrian little, some interesting stuff on Steve Vicker's table, and a few other bits.
Another sample of wooden ceremonials, probably from Germany, but not necessarily, these things are pretty universal, and the red/blue of Danish guards is also the standard paint-job, a bit damaged, but that too, is par for the course, with wooden toys this small.
Another of the Dunbee-Combex era, Marx Disney figures in PVC.
The
Britains Lilliput OO 'Trooscale' Centurion, compared with the
Airfix 'readymade', bottom-right, a nice find and cheap because it has a few paint-chips, in the die-cast world things are either mint, and pricey, or gash! It's clean-enough for me.
On Steve's table were a bunch of
Athena ceremonials, and I grabbed one of each, three sentry/guard duty types and eight bandsmen, there was a 14th but he was damaged, and the cymbalist only has one cymbal, but as a catch-up sample, they'll do!
A - probably commercial -
BR Moulding behind, and a chap in front I don't entirely know, he looks familiar, in a sort of
Cherilea fashion, but is too small for them, can't be either of the
Charbens ones (oval or round bases), so
Hilco from hollow-cast? He's soft 'ethylene, against the
BR's hard 'styrene.
East German at the front?
Reamsa reissue of a Mountie, probably from
Marksmen,
Gulliver copy of
Atlantic's Apache hunter, a
Poplar-Tudor Rose (green) and
Crescent hollow-cast copy in yellow at the back.
The hard plastic chap in white is a ceremonial from the Principality of Monaco I think, but probably a French-made figure (there was a plastic maker in Monaco, but they made
Britains and
Crescent copies!), while the other two are Spanish,
Reamsa 1st version, I think.
Some unpainted
Britains Deetail ACW, also on Steve's table, someone recently posted the bugler, in similar nakedness on the
Friends who like Plastic Warrior Faceplant group, you do find them from time to time, usually old out-painters stock, filtering their way to market as sheds and cupboards are sorted-out!
While Adrian's tub of Circus (his third in two years) was very useful, none of the rarer mouldings, but something more useful, confirmation!
The third image is sadly fuzzy, and I only realised when I edited this, last night, so there’s no time to reshoot it, but a very useful sample for showing three tool-cavities, with long, thin left foot (shorter figure), rounder foot and short foot, and with the bases being one Maysun, one 'Hong Hong' and one blank, confirms that most of these Crescent copies are the same Marty-Maysun--M Toy production,
For years, I've kept these in two or three lots, due to obvious differences, especially among the standing-tub markings of the Elephant and the Lion's box. But getting these three together, the same quality, plastic colour and paint, means they can all be unified now, and I can thin them out, to a better 'overall' sample.
One
Crescent original among them, the right-hand elephant, with the beach-balls in two colours, a very useful addition to the whole sample.
While a couple of
Corgi's Cinderella Coach horses w=also work for circus animals, the jockey is a Hong Kong copy of
Britains jumper, and the
Charbens clown has been repainted! Many thanks to Adrian for the freebies!
