This sat on Adrian's stall until the hall
was nearly empty, unloved and unwanted, now . . . it is damaged and has a
replacement spear . . . but it's already one of the top-ten figures in my
entire collection - and bear in mind; I have all eight tiny Trojans - twice!
It’s a French-made Clairet Greek Hoplite and to be honest the replacement spear - for which
the hand has been drilled - only enhances a superb sculpt, the undamaged original
is furnished with some double-barbed stick which looks like it was borrowed
from an Esquimaux who previously used it to catch seals! This one though, is
about to ruin a Persian's afternoon - forever!
This is a beautiful figure . . . isn't it?
Stunning! Best of show.
Who knows? A blow-moulded, semi-flat,
celluloid Indian, clearly removed from a larger piece; possibly a decorative
picture or mirror-frame? I think it may be pre- or between-the-wars rather than
a post-war piece?
As well as the cut-mark/hole at the back of
the stump where a backing was, he has also been removed from something below
his feet, the hole being neatly covered-over with a couple of wafer-thin slices
of ivory or bone, previously board-game counters or tiddlywinks, which only
raises the question, why wasn't the damage behind similarly patched?
Nothing too exciting, an Elastolin figure for the neighbouring Austrian
market, where the bought-out Tipple-Topple's
brand-mark was retained for continuity, or to appease the locals - stop them
starting another war! The seller had several poses, but I chose this as an
iconic example.
Could be nothing, could be something? Wintershilfswerke
(WHW) maybe, or 'from hollow-cast'?
The white trousers rather rule out British? He's a glassy or brittle
polystyrene, semi-flat, or - at least - somewhat sculpted in one plane and a
ceremonial from somewhere? 50/52-mil? I like him!
Really pleased - but a bit gutted. I posted
this along with a kneeling firer last year having shot them at the show. This
year I managed to get this one, but the kneeling figure - seemingly - had
already been bought by someone else! Although the kneeling one had a silly
smile and a bent barrel, so I'm happy with this one really. An Argentine (or 'believed to be Argentinian')
copy in polyethylene of a Lineol
composition-made, WWI late-type German Infantryman.
Smine . . . sorll'myne!
