These were in the bag from Brian Carrick,
and are all new to the collection. The most interesting is the GI type at the
back; he could a be Gum-ball/Sobre/Lucky-bag/Capsule-toy of some
type, but equally he may be from a board-game? LP astronaut-copy is a new colour addition to the existing sample while
the girl with skis and Bergan-rucksack may turn-out to be Kibri or Kibri supplied,
but I need to dig on that one . . .
. . . she's like similar flesh-coloured
ones I have which resemble artists renditions in a Kibri catalogue, and also seem to be the donors of the semi-flats
from Hong Kong we've seen here a couple of times (with cartoony faces), but the
same catalogue has renditions of two other types of figures, over two pages,
some of which are definitely the Roco-Minitrains
ones, the others Noch (?) so Kibri - while being manufacturers - may
also have done a bit of jobbing other people's stuff?
An excellent trio of curiosities here! The
bear is a cake-decoration in bisque, but it's given 'fur' by being rolled in
bisque crumbs before firing, while the little soldier (in a fairing style but
only 45/50mm) is also bisque and I suspect a wartime piece, either a
wedding-cake figurine (so many were getting married in uniform) or maybe more
of a 'sweetheart' piece, left with a girlfriend by a beau, off to war? Equally
- it could be a fundraiser like the German and US ones we've already seen here?
Between them is a rubber jiggler, with
his/her/its tongue out! And why not?
Not 100% sure if the outer two are French Rex or British Christmas cracker
novelties, but they are early, I suspect British, the Rex I've seen are slimmer figures. Between them are four LB derivatives; a chromium-plated
polystyrene Tri-ang Spacex/MPC Golden
Astronaut and three generations of copy/sub-piracy in polyethylene - the
smallest on his second-outing in five minutes, what's that all about?!!
These were saved for me by Mike's friend
Kevin (?), and they really are lovely, I know they can come in an ultramarine blue,
and I know there is at least a fourth pose, so obviously I'm going to be looking
for that other pose in the other colour, but this is a good start! Based on MPC
sculpts, these are Hong Kong's finest, with faces in 'helioscopic'* print,
behind clear visors.
* There's another word for them, but I can't
remember it! Not 'fractal' but similar? Polyfractual, visirand,
goottlefetchling? 2025 - lenticular!
Farm copies in HO/OO-gauge compatible Hong
Kong polymer! They will be put on the Airfix
Blog as a comparison, I think these are just a green run of the oxide-brown
ones already seen over there, and, err . . . that's it!
Alan Shearer! Who knew? Probably lots of
you, but he's new to me, some recent cereal premium, there's a set of them and
I'll look out for them as they are nice figures, Weetabix or Wheetos I
think (?) . . . because of everything else going on recently I've put some of
this stuff away without taking proper notes and the attic's too hot to
faff-about in 'till September now! Peter Evans had put the above to one side
for me . . .
. . . while Adrian Little had saved this
for me. Initial thought was that it's an NZ tourist trinket, but memory serves
it may be from a European premium (Vitho
of France?) set of native/aboriginal cultural art/iconography and masks (which
might be in Jean Piffret's excellent book?), but it's very timely, for as we shall
see have seen; 2019 is turning into 'New
Zealand Year' here at Small Scale World, with forthcoming the recent posts from Brian
Berke and the Jan/Feb stuff from Glenn.
Which closes 'my PW show' for this year, plenty-else still to come from the 'best
show in the world' yet though,, but thanks to Adrain, Peter, Kevin, Nicolas,
Brian for now, and . . . it's only 9-months
to the next one!
