Right, now I've really got to photograph the other two bags, as it won't be over 'till they sing, and Rack Toy Month is fast approaching, with plenty to amuse and entertain, or at least add to the whole! In the meantime, the last of the previous photo-sesh' is the civilian stuff, and there some interesting stuff in there, so let's 'ave a luke!
Sportsmen, with a large
Charbens footballer, from the paint-your-own set we looked at here;
Another of the cake-decoration (and other sets) footballers, the less common cricket fielder from Gem/Culpitt, and while he may only be uncommon to me, when you get the sets of three, they rarely have this chap so I think it's an accurate identifier.
Another of the cereal premium imports for Canada, playing ice-hockey, and one of the Ajax baseball figures, but a late unpainted one, which may have been issued by somebody else? We looked at the painted ones here;
And, where did that seven years go?!
The smaller components of a firefighter set, probably a rack toy, and the probably chunky vehicles are missing, but it's another sample, another box ticked. I like the no fires sign, with a large FIRE underneath, glad they had time to get that up, to warn people entering the smoke-filled area, past the fire engines and sooty-faced, sweaty guys, in heavy overalls!
Two very useful
Airfix motorcyclists, I have many more bikes than riders, so these were a must when I saw them, along with a soft PVC sidecar rider, of the racing variety, who may be from a small die-cast, maybe by one of the smaller makers? It's not the
Britains one, and I don't think it's
Budgie either, but might be a copy?
Circus, a clown bendy, and another part- (or most-) clown from Kinder, along with a second example of the strange, flatish, but solid, stylised, possibly die-cast, or harder base/whitemetal like spelter or pewter, ringmaster.
The fact that two have turned-up now, years apart, without any other recognisable elements of a circus set, suggests some kind of token, freebie, mascot or corporate thing? Anyone know?
Three additions to the Japanese celluloid/styrene trinket side-collection, which, as it consists mostly of teeny wagons and carts, equally diminutive 'brown water navy' vessels, or the larger blow-moulds, makes these a nice addition, being a selection of rural occupations, a fisherman and two woodmen.
The one that was missing! We have looked at these several times now, Brian Berke and Chris Smith have both helped with images or sample, on those visits, and possibly even shown us a
Tresco original, and while I may now find there is one among mine, loose, this boxed one will start the full overview, one day, as there's about a dozen in the stash now, while we've seen more than twelve, so we can do full comparisons?
Farm stuff, the larger ones are modern/current, owe a lot to
Elastolin and are a growing sample. I thought the blue chap was from a set of semi-flat animals we have looked at here;
But he's not, he's a much heavier sculpt, with a thicker base, and might be an early board-game piece, from the metal to plastic switch-over, but aping the flats of earlier gaming pieces?
While the other two are metal, and might be Charbens, a tractor diver, who's quite common, and a slightly different figure with half-crossed legs, who might be operating a reaper-binder, a job I have done, for my sins, and bloody hard it is too, with several leavers to mind, adjusting height and angle of cutting bed, while keeping another eye on the knotter, and a third on the contra-rotating packing belts! And you have to keep checking the sheaves you're leaving behind!!
But he might just be a chauffeur!
We've had loads of these from Adrian Little and Chris in recent years, and I already had a large sample (some 60-plus bags), but they all differ, and will need a huge sort-out one day, trying to tie them into known sets, either from the collection, or from catalogues (
Holly,
Blue Box), or from the hundreds of images I've downloaded over the years, of sets online.
Likewise! But Small-scale.
Two Crescent lead to the right, and a metal dog, complete, but refuseing to stand-up!
Road/construction workers and race crew/garage attendants are another subsection with literally hundreds of unknowns, from 60-plus-years of vehicle toys with figural accessories, and there tends to be a wider verity, than in the much-copied multi-generation farm stuff, which has few pose variants (it's all in the size, base type or plastic colour), so I'm looking forward to sorting these and ID'ing as much as possible.
Can I get away with a second 'likewise'? Emergency personal (Police, Fire and Ambulance), are another genre with many, many variants, and while I have promised to get a firefighters page done, it's rather languishing at the moment, but police and ambulance crew/stretcher cases will need similar treatment!
Rail staff and passengers are another area, where stuff keeps appearing, which isn't from the obvious perpetrators, and here it's possibly Hong Kong copies of the
Tri-Ang/Hornby dinning-car and driver sets, two flats in lead and a reasonably common
Hornby 'Binns Road' era solid.
Everything else! The scout, while similar to the two flats above, will be from a board-game, with that coloured base. The small girl/doll seems to be a cake decoration, while the seated lady and gentleman with cigar with be from US model kits of cars, or 'automobiles'! Funny, when I showed the unknown Chauffeur the other year someone else quickly found him and added him to their HQ, they'll have to find these two now!
Many thanks to Adrian Little, Brian Carrick, Colin Penn, Isaac, Matt Murphy, Martin
Fahie, Michael Mordant-Smith, Paul, Peter Evans and Trevor Rudkin, without their contributions, and those of Chris, Brian, Tony H, John Begg, Gareth, Steve V and others, at other times, these posts wouldn't happen.
