So, couple of busy days have put me
slightly behind, drove over to pick-up the dregs of Dave Pomeroy's archive yesterday - bit of a mini-adventure in itself! But I'll catch-up quick enough, life-willing, and it's back to the donation
from Chris Smith a month or so ago, with a look at the cowboy and native Indian
angle, of that rootin' tootin' shootin' wild Wild West!
A nice group of semi-flats in an 'ivorene'
polystyrene plastic, it's probably rare to find them so undamaged as a group! They
are unmarked marked Vortella Plastic, and while in the style of the Coca-cola
animals, have thinner bases, they are also somewhat in the style of the US Cracker Jack set, but different, heavier sculpts, I don't think
they've been attributed to anyone yet, but would seem to be Euro-premiums/margarine
giveaways?
Bendy Toys; a striation of colour weaving
its way through the marble of Small Scale World; I think we've
seen the smaller chaps before, but the Brabo
styled 'lanky-git' to the right is a lovely thing, I forgot to note any marks
before that tub went up to storage, but I think it was a Hong Kong mark not Brabo themselves? And a Safari on the far end. [Next day - it's not Safari is it, I think it's Phiadal's Pocahontas set, I keep them all in the same tub; painted PVC!]
Fun chaps; There's a mix of modern China
marked generics (first three) possibly accessories from a big-box play set, of exactly
the kind of thing hardware, stationary, general stores and/or pharmacies get-in
at this time of year, and an older Soma
figure (on the right).
Base marks, I recently (well; about a year
ago!) got a similar lot in with a mix of the Soma and similar premium figures
from Haribo, so at some point in the
future (year or two?) we will compare all three with the older cartoony stuff
from Jecsan (Spain) and Lik Be (Hong Kong), in a much fuller
post.
The de rigueur bag of Giant or Giant-like bits,
these being mostly the ones I call 'Wavymane' associated with several
brands/brand-marks, but that's all for the other Blog!
I'm pretty sure these are premiums, just not
sure who, and I think we've seen them before, maybe always in this dark, metallic
lilac, but I won't sware to it! Obviously, we'll return to them when they are
all brought together! With a new pose to the left?
This is rather intriguing, nearly all the
poles have come loose, and the thing's been 'ironed' into a stiff hankie by the
weight of whatever toys were laying over it, but you can see feint marks where
the original glue was, or where the past making-tape was applied as a first
attempted mend, so eventually I intend to restore it.
I'm guessing it went with smaller 3 or 4-inch
action figures or something like Playmobile
figures, and is - clearly - a fabric Tee-Pee/Tipi with wooden poles; four
present, probably six originally?
The painted cowboy with the straw boater can
be found as a cowboy or a jungle/big-game hunter, and is probably missing a dog,
usually attached to the front of the base, but this is a non-Blue Box sub-piracy and may not have run
to a dog!
Below him is one of the very-well sculpted
40mm backwoodsmen and Indians (copied from a larger scale) which, like those
AWI's we looked at a while ago, have some of the properties of DFC, but are probably older and of
better quality than DFC's figures?
To his right is one of Nardi Mounties; a bit the worse for wear, but a useful sample
against something better turning-up one day, good ones tend to command high
prices and stay outside my practical (read: tight-fisted) budget!
Some interesting Hong Kong production, including
two painted (newer) and two in blue plastic (older, one aping Texas,
but probably from a coach-roof?), some cake decorations and another of the Lone Star shooting game figures, we'll
have to return to them too, as after the original post and a couple of
follow-ups, more have come in (four I think, three from Chris?) and the paperwork,
so it should all be tied-together more neatly!
Finally, top-right, a wagon crewman . . .
. . . which I'm guessing is US, or from US
moulds (early Tudor Rose or Kleeware, Salco, Selcol, someone
like that?), nice, a sort of hard, coal-black 'styrene, and the hunt for an ID
will occupy my mind from time to time!
Smallies; two of the horses from those cheap wedding-cake
type coaches, and three of the Hong Kong coach/wagon crew, having looked at
them before, I've since ID'd older French and Italian versions, some/one of
which should be the donor! The broken horses are worth keeping as colour
samples, as there seem to be so many variants of them!
More smallies! Top row; A Marx-copy cracker toy/Lucky Bag premium of Pecos Bill, two
Marx Miniature Masterpieces, one damaged hard polystyrene (left) and one soft polyethylene
(right) from the window-box sets and a Blue Box miniaturised Britains sculpt.
A Minimodels
mounted Indian; I've just picked up two painted metal castings (because you DO cast metal) of these from the aforementioned
Dave Pomeroy's archive (he didn't design them, they are Charles Stadden's work) and they are equally damaged; the weapons were just too thin!
Finally a trio of Hong Kong'ies for the relevant tubs of such things - love the
plastic colour of the cracker-toy, bottom-right!
So thanks again to Chris for another
interesting lot of odds to share, and it's civi's next I think?
