This is a few shots of several small lots I
took together as they all came in the same post, and got unwrapped (I think of
them as presents even if I've paid for them!) together . . . actually they may
have been four little lots from one seller?
Two large vinyl animals from PG Tips (tea-bag premiums, taped to a
box of tea-bags - for loyal readers overseas!), with their boxes in the
background, two nifty ninja's, a Hong Kong for Cavendish (and others) tourist keepsake guardsman and a lovely
HO-gauge compatible composition barn . . . and me' morning-coffee! Self-seal
bags are ready to receive their new tenants.
Posed with Britains Lilliput farm figures
and accessories, to give some idea of the scale, could be Brent or Zang or
someone, but has the colour of European linseed oil-mixed composition, so may be
German, Belgian or even Italian?
That design of barn is, or was; 100-years
ago, pretty universal across northern/central Europe, the 17 original States of
the Union and western Russia, so no guide to origin in the architecture,
indeed, it could be home-made or what we now call 'garage production'? But, nevertheless; one
of my favorite additions to the collection in the last 12 months.
Because Chris's lot had only come in a few
weeks before, it was still half-sorted and to-hand, so I grabbed the similar
figure from his donation and they had a reunion fight! I have a bunch of them somewhere and we'll look at them properly one day.
You can see in the background I also
unified the three 60mm 'Cavendish's, and saw a pair of ginger cats migrate to the
table between shoots!
The fact that two of the guards are damaged is no problem
as this is a hard to find figure with the bayonet intact, but all three are
different plastic colours (red, smoky salmon and greyish-white), so when we
next look at the 60mm's in detail (I need to find more household cavalry!) the
three will produce an excellent base-underside shot!
And I took a very similar shot to the one the other day - in fact I probably took them at the same time! The swoppet
ninja is from the purchase, the other four were from Chris Smith - Kinder, vintage Japanese celluloid, Award International, MTC and a European premium after Fontanini.
