It looks like I might be picking-up two lots of donated loot at the BMSS show this Saturday, if I can swing my carcass out of bed, early enough, something I have been struggling with recently! So at some point I'll have to get back to a more regular posting, but with over a million hits since Christmas, the Blog seems to have reached a self-supporting momentum, based around it's existing content, which is nice, but may be one of the [subconscious] factors contributing to my lack of motivation? Never thought I'd accuse myself of sitting on my laurels! Anyway, in continuing the plan of some weeks ago - there was a second successful trip to charity shops at the start of the year . . .
A bag of bits, a bag of animals and a couple of Stegosaurii . . . Stegosauruses?
Before and after cleaning - three
Galanite infant-toy vinyls from Sweden, the poorer brother of
Tomte, Both in accuracy (although the BMC 1100/Mini is quite good), and the wheels, which are no way as nice as
Tomte's, or even the cheap 'W.Germany' (
Stelco,
Vinylline) and Hong Kong (
Miniflex?) clones which were around at the same time. But collectable nevertheless, and there's a tub of them all somewhere!
There was also these . . . they went to 'Recyche'!
I'm pretty sure these are from the
Corgi Chipperfield's Circus sets, and will need to be compared to the others, there's a bigfull somewhere, to get the best samples in the 'master collection', then the others can be disposed off, probably to charity! They all suffer from paint loss due to play-handling.
I suspect these are
Corgi too, I don't remember a Zebra, but the same Hong Kong identifiers, and lack of marking, suggest they go with the giraffes? Close to the
Britains sculpt, they are also very close to the various
Blue Box,
Redbox,
Holly and
New Maries zebras, which I'm one day going to have to try and sort out!
Likewise, note-wise, these two yellow tigers, the white one being marked and probably
Holly? Again, someone, someday is going to have to sit down with all the boxed, carded and bagged sets, any catalogue images and all the loose examples, and try and sort them all out and get them annotated correctly by plastic colour, paint, markings etc . . .
Britains Llama,
Corgi Rhino; a later vinyl moulding, and the bear, which again, may be
Corgi, it's quite common in mixed lots, and has a lot in common with both the Rhino and the
Corgi Bull from the Lamborghini, so it may be another
Corgi, but I'm not sure I have it listed?
Modern, Chinasaurs, two makes, both unknown, but we may have seen them in show-reports, or carded acquisitions/donations, all to be sorted another day!
I also picked up this for next-to-nothing, a couple of the figures are damaged, but they just join a growing sub-branch of the collection . . . Box in the recycling bin, and I kept a couple of the accessories, as a sample!
Popular movies or other licensed productions, TV, Comics &etc, produce a plethora of crap over a shortish period (unless they really take off like Star Wars or TMNT), and while there's a lot of Minions stuff around at the moment, in 30-years, they'll be more like Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite or Richard Scarry animals are now - half-forgotten, and "What was all the hype about?"!
