F is for Follow-up - Speedwell & Co - Walls, Sandbags and Rocks

I said the other day that I'd misplaced both the Speedwell 'master' tub and the spares bag . . .

. . . well, the spares bag is in the foreground here, the master-tub is to the right, the stuff we looked at the other day is mostly in the rear centre tub with the little walls in their own carded bag. Another bag of bits is to the left and the box - the missing bits all turned-up in - had a few other bits for this or the next Post, so the follow-up has come more rapidly than I imagined it would the other day!

The 'Speedwell' master-tubs contents, unlike other Speedwell scenics these are all unmarked, and further, in the catalogue used by Plastic Warrior magazine they are separately listed under farm and military groupings, but these all came together as - presumably - ex-shop stock with the ones in the spares bag, in two shades of red, but the same three mouldings in the darker maroon-red (were the three on the same tool?), the rest in a flat red.

The one bottom-centre, seems to be a doorway blocked with a hay-bale and along with the lapped-fence (middle-right) is unlisted, but as you can see; are both painted in the same pale-green and came in the same large, 'mint' batch.

Note - the church-door, broken gate/corner and hay-pile weren't in the [sizable] sample, so could they also be on a single mould-tool, not used the day my 'order' was made-up and shipped-out?

[And if anyone has swaps of those three, I have most of the others, mint to near mint in the bag of spares, happy to do a one-for-one swap - eMail me]

Contemporary offering from Timpo Toys, a two-part, plug-together, corner piece, which; judging from the number of small holes in it provides little or no protection for troops or sheltering civilians - cinder-blocks!

These are modern I think - a sort of stiff-but-bendy PVC type material, possibly 21st Century or Unimax? The two larger pieces are identical, they can be braced in either of two positions, either side (dotted lines) to make a verity of ruins or a single piece, the sandbag emplacements are the same - slightly-bendy - stuff.

We looked at two of these the other week, and I said they couldn't be Speedwell because of the loopholes, well, the Speedwell is on the right (upper image), and a copy has turned up, I've pencilled Trojan in as it's too glossy for the chalky production of Kentoy or UNA/VP, but could be any of them or someone else?

Along with the Charbens (really a dry-stone wall, but with loop-holes) another two smooth-backed copies have also turned-up, both with a gloss-green grass highlight in paint. And; to be honest, they both look like they were made yesterday in China! I'm not sugegsting they were, the other one (top centre) looks 'Early British' production - but they are very clean, and presumably also ex-shop stock, or very un-played-with?

Hillco shell-crater on the left, unknown pile of rocks on the right, might be Gemodels, but not known to be, and the sort of thing all sort of people would throw in a window-boxed set for visual effect?

Likewise this; the clue here, such as it is, is the little ears either side of the main product moulding, which would have either located in slots in the card base of a boxed-set, or have been used to tie-down, with thread or elastic. Some Charbens pieces have similar 'ears' but they are less obvious or geometrical?

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♫♫♪. . . in the Freeeee-wooorrrlld! ♫♪

Ladies and Gentlemen . . . The camera never lies!

The esteemed editor of Plastic Warrior magazine played the Teamsterz Stadium, with Dylan - fact!

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T is for ♯♪♫♫♪ They Just Hope Their Legs Don't Break . . . ♫♪♪♫

♫♫♪. . . Walking . . . on the Moooon! ♫♪

I mentioned the other day that we'd have a look at the sub-scale astronauts, and while this probably isn't the Post I had planned in my head - because the complete-sets are still buried in the garage somewhere - here are a few of them, loose for now.

I only have one of these and he's a stand-alone for another reason, as the rest are PVC-alike, while he is a hollow, two-piece, glued polystyrene construct. ID'd with the help of Bill B's catalogue we can add another brand to the cannon - Kin Ming.

As you can see he has two holes in his base, there is a further oblong slot in his backpack; which I forgot to shoot, but between them they suggest he was possibly fixed to something (perhaps temporarily, pluged-in) and/or tethered to the same or something else! So possibly an accessory for a larger Kin Ming plastic, or die-cast toy, maybe a Space Shuttle?

We looked at these K&M (aka Wild Republic) astronauts as a set in a Post a while ago, but three samples have now been combined and here's an assortment of base-colour and visor-colour variations, while the sharp-eyed among you will also notice that some have had their red and blue highlights hand-painted (typically; the paler-based ones) others are all-stenciled, however the flag is stenciled on both types.

The more interesting of the four samples here; the storage-sample has a note on the card saying (in my handwriting!) 'Probably Wing Mau Trading', now I'm pretty thorough - you won't find me running about the Internet making things up as I go along and x all else, so there will be a reason both for the attribution, and the 'Probably', which is with the lost sets.

I suspect Wing Mau are somehow associated with one or more of the sets but not one of the others with the same figures (sounds like a vast sub-set, but I think there are only two or three sets!), and further, as Wing Mau are actually John Wong & Co., that they may end up being tied in to either Pioneer or Realtoy, or both!

'Trading' is not factory, manufacturing or engineering, and I think J Wong's Wing Mau were middle-men passing stuff through from the Hing Kong manufacturers to the European, US and other end-uses, and that these will end up being associated with several brands, brand-marks or phantoms. As I said the other day; I think one of the missing sets may be Galaxy International, aother possibly Ocean, or Pioneer but don't write it down yet, I'm not putting it in the tags - thorough see!

As to the 'Pioneer and/or Realtoy' thought; although all a PVC type material, some of these are as hard as the Dacron/Sky Line armymen, some are as soft as the Pioneer stuff, and they are cavity-(?)-numbered on the base in the same alternate-codes' way as the very crude SP Toys small scale soldiers from Supreme thus;

1A /1B - Cordless Scewdriver

2A / 2B - Ring [metal?] Detector

3A / 3B - EVA Suit

They all have an additional 'Made in China', the base of the flag (in which it swivels freely) having only the national identifier.

Finally is this little orphan, marked Made in China and with a numeral '2' and in a dense PVC-type polymer he's quite Realtoy but smaller than the soldiers, he's also ticking some Pioneer, Smart and Supreme boxes, and might be one of a group in the storage sets?!

News, Views Etc . . . Herald and eMails

Barney has more new stuff in;

"This week, with Autumn upon us, we have for sale a comprehensive collection of plastic farm models by Barrett & Sons and F. G. Taylor & Sons, including some of the more hard to find models and colour variants. Built up over some 20 years, the collection includes models derived from the Pre-war Taylor & Barrett lead moulds and others specifically for plastic production."

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And I've seen all the eMails (and attachments!), but won't have time to answer them today . . . hopefully tomorrow!

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F is for From the Sublime to the Ridiculous!

Just a quickie in case I don't get anything else up in time for Monday!

The figure in the center is that crappy China-via-Russia-to-Germany thing I bought at Plastic Warrior's show back in May (hey, I'm nothing if not an esoteric completist!), either side of him is a probably Japanese-made (from one of those scallop-shell, mini-diorama, touristy things) South Asian warrior of the contemporaneous era (depicted), but ten times nicer!

He's also interesting in being a solid, rather than the usual hollow vac-form or blow-mould, despite being the same celluloid or cellulose acetate.

As to the red one; when I said back in June/July "We won't see them again here very soon or very often!" I clearly lied! Issued/packed by Smart Toys Creative of Yiwu, China, imported into Russia by Trading House Mirika.

That's it, something for Monday morning!

P is for Plastix

Have we had these before? I think we may have had these before - in the footy 'mini-season' a couple of January's ago, but we're going to have them again as I noticed something while trying to decide whether we'd had them or not, which I don't think I'd noticed last time!

A bog-standadrd'ish set of flat footballers, three-a-side plus a referee, between 54 and 60mm, I probably said last time that I don't know how may poses there were or what other colours you may find them in, but what I didn't say last time is that they are all marked, I wouldn't say 'clearly' but marked they are nevertheless!

Indeed on the fluorescent green and orange-red players it's hard to see and just as hard to read with a jeweller's loupe and pen-torch, but on the referee it's more easy to spot, and can be read, a shadowed cartouche with Plastix within the inner boundary.

Plastix seem to be an Argentine jobber/pirate, they also ran a version of the Dolls of the World (Commonwealth type - still to be added to that page!), but from the poorer [Hong Kong?] tools, or their own copy-tools?

Not to be confused with Superglue-Plastix a Locktite brand-mark (now phased-out but probably still owned/registered by them) for their 'soft plastic' cyanoacrylate super-glue, these figures almost certainly pre-date the late 1990's use by Locktite?

Technically, I think the Europeans would class these as demi-ronde, due to their not being as flat as the German 'Nuremberg' lead flats, but I think of them as flats because they have no sticky-out bits!

And - for those wanting to tick the box, I think I got these from The Swagman's Daughter who trades on feeBay but also has a shop:

www.theswagmansdaughter.com

She may have some left.

S is for Sun Fung . . . Not! (Probably?)

Well, I mean Sun Fung might be a stand-alone manufacturer, but the lack of a logo in the full page ad' suggests they were probably some sort of 'middle-man', you know the type of thing; contract-agents, Hong Kong-based wholesalers or shippers of some kind? The stuff seems pretty generic and to have been seen in other guises?

Anyway it's another name in the cannon (and the Tag List); let's have a look . . . the above was cropped out of the larger inset-image and shows some figures as 'added-interest' or 'enhanced play-value' accessories for what look to be all or mostly plastic vehicles, and it's the firefighters we are going to concentrate on today.

I only have two I can say may be from the Sun Fung stable and one of them doesn't have the necessary paint! Both are manufactured in a softish polyethylene; one a match for those illustrated above, the unpainted 'other' being possibly a later one?

But . . . I do have these, in three-colour paint, over pink polystyrene and with an extra pose (we will study in a mo'), they are not quite the same with the bases on the 2nd (fire-axe guy) and 3rd (air-tank guy) figures from the left turned 90° from the Sun Fung ones, the pose it's hard to make-out in the advert' is the carrying a medium-sized (age 7-10) child guy, while the kneeling pose on the far right is . . .

 . . . carrying a baby? Carrying a dog or cat . . . or other pet (large gerbil?), carrying a small monkey? A piece of vital fire-fighting equipment? The Mystical Zoldorathian Girdle of Power? He's carrying something and has chosen to kneel on a piece of debris!

These two sub-Lucky copies aren't the orange ones above, although the kneeling guy in the advertisement seems to have been reversed in the studio so would look similar to this chap, the standing one has a different base.

In preparing these recent posts I've found around (it was dodgy counting) 59 samples of un-ID'd road-workers/mechanics in the small-to-medium scales box, some several hundred figures, and 20-odd in the larger-scale tubs, so plenty to go on and I added two samples (four figures) from Chris and Peter from the last few months, along with two Blue Box variants; also from Peter, and one day we'll have a session on the figures rather than the brands!

C is for Cat-cophony!

S is for Stray Cat Strut, J is for Jazz Cats, F is for Feline Groovy, T is for Tuneful Topcats . . . I may as well get them all up here as I'll never get another chance . . . M is for Musical Moggies, Meowsical . . . P is for Panda's Pussies Play Pop, S is for Scatting-cats and Skiffling-kitty's . . . there should be more cat bands, clearly; there are the titles' for them.

Rag-time Rag-dolls . . . Symphonic Siamese's . . . and [for the intellectuals;] Boogie-woogie Bastets! Tin-pan Tabbies? Cum'on; I'm sure you can do better!

I can't now remember where these came from, or 'came-in', possibly a charity shop, but years ago, or in an odd job-lot of small scale (they are 35/40mm) from someone I named the other day, but I won't name him again, as the vision of Stadinger physically 'digging out' another single figure to 'drop' the same name again, is too much!

There are some serious issues of insecurity writ there; an inadequacy which is behind this war of his. I thought he sat in my dust, copying me, because he had no ideas, but it turns out he's trying to prove something to . . . himself? That he's as good as me? That he knows some of the same people as I do? That he's got the odd figure I have?

Understand this;- I thank people because they have helped or contributed to the Blog or my collecting is some way, I've done it since the start of the blog, and will continue to do so, Stadinger never thanks his contributors, he name-checks them, but rarely thanks them! To be fair though; as they all appear to be moulded from the same lumpen clay as him, they don't seem too bothered!

The idea that he felt so threatened - by my thanking someone - the other day, that he had to dig-out a random figure to generate a reason to name them (not thank them, just 'name-drop'!) suggests that while he calls me 'sad' and Erwin keeps trying to question my sanity, the one in need of therapy is TJF, the pathetic one is TJF?

And why would you name-check a purchase? You thank people who have helped with freebies, or information, or shelfies, and you should try to thank if you've been deliberately let-have something on the cheap? But name-checking every purchase you've ever made is impossible, and if you've paid; it's 'yours', so suddenly naming someone, out of the blue, the day after I happened to thank them for something, looks very odd? Like posting dinosaur shelfies - later the same day!

It's fascinating -  from two-thousand-and-something-odd miles away - to watch Stad's mind working, to hear those cogs grinding together; "Oh no! Hughie's mentioned so-and-so/shown such-and-such, I'd better mention them/show it too!" He's clearly as insecure (and paranoid?) as a gay spy in the Politburo! Poor love! With no ideas and not much to show, but then he's a dealer not a collector! Me? I'm just a patronising bastard, but still; he wanted it, this 'war' of his!

And another thing . . . while I'm in the mood; he's tried the baby-talk 'Hughie' thing for the last few months, but my best mate in Canada who starred in the remake of Lost in Space (as a body-double - I taught her how to hold a gun!) calls me Hughie, an ex-lover called me Hughwish (not quite Hugh?!), another (in Berlin) called me Huey (...Lewis and the News - she was German and you know what Obelix has to say about them!), an old school friend calls me Hughzzle and my Rottweiler-owning Chopped-triumph riding biker mate calls me Hughston, everyone else knows me as H or Maverick, shortened to the mildly annoying Mav', but it means TJF's going to have to get a little more inventive to upset me on that one, but it's fun to watch him try!

The above was written earlier in the week, then today (Thurs. 23rd) I see he's also dug-out a single large, US-made road worker, presumably to 'balance' the Buddy L I used as a scale the other day! Yet he hasn't balanced the four, new to hobby, Hong Kong logo, empirical ID's I was doing when I chucked in the Buddy L, it's really too funny! Childish and seeped in pathos, but still funny.

But . . . onwards and upwards; these are also fun!

Almost certainly from Good Soldiers, not that they are soldiers! The panda-bear is taken from the Dinky one, I don't know where the cats came from, early plastic novelties of some kind, Japanese maybe, Good Soldiers tend to use vintage plastic figures to make their masters, but they might have copied some old hollow-cast, or composition (doughcraft or chalkware?) novelties?

Spot the deliberate mistake - countries with colonies of penguins will tell you they tend to cull cats, because cats like penguin-eggs, cats like small penguins, cats like injured penguins cats like slow penguins! What the f*** is a penguin doing in a cat-band? The bear's safe'ish; he's a vegetarian, although one recently mauled its keeper!

The Dinky donor was the Mr Bearanda (geddit? Bear and Panda . . . or Bear-man-panda?) from Dinky's Andy and Candy licensed-toy; Stripy the Mini, and we see them here for the second-time I think, but contextually; and a new image! No pantograph will have been employed and because the rubber mould-making compound used to take the negatives shrinks slightly as it sets, the copy ends-up being actually slightly larger.

I suspect the three plastic figures are the work of Charles Stadden, and probably about as esoteric as he got! I particularly like the sculpt of little Candy who's a puppet in the show, and she looks like a puppet, in fact she looks like a long-haired, zombie Chucky, but then she did in the show too!

T is for Two - Wild West From the East

A combination of picasa clearance and follow-up here, with some larger stuff from the former East Germany in the first instance and the former Soviet Union in the second-half.

I believe these are both Lisanto, previously a composition maker, but swallowed-up by the Red's in 1945, they would eventually become a centralised, collective VEB, from whence era comes these two, if they are Lisanto, as there were several similar makers and once they'd been VEB'd who knows who had the tools that Friday!

If they are Lisanto they should be . . .

Numer 033 - Shading eyes

Numer 048 - Stabbing with rope

But even those numbers may be modern collector's numbering?

The weapons are crude, the tomahawk die-cut from a sheet of [I think] polystyrene, but it could be something tougher, a propylene or ethylene polymer? While the rifle is like an inter-war pop-gun or cork-firer, and a pretty standard polyethylene! They are interchangeable, as the figures are a softish PVC, but the one (axe) has stretched its hand, leaving the gun loose, while the other's (rifle) hand is tight for the tomahawk.

I also found this, clearly marked, it's made of polystyrene and you can see damage to the base from being in close proximity to the PVC figures in the past, the escaping thalates from the PVC softening the styrene's chains; I keep such things separate.

I may have a rider somewhere, probably in the two boxes we looked at over a year ago, which are still to be properly sorted - as I think I've said before; Wild West isn't a priority for me.

Above; That marking in full!

Below which are four figures from Chris Smith which were a follow-up to something I've forgotten! Flats of the demi-ronde variety, and Russian - I think - although Chris said they were sourced in Lithuania (or Latvia?).

I love these, I've seen them on the Russian forums and slightly envied them, I used to think they were rubber, but I think they look polyethylene too, and large'ish?

Chris describes them thus - "The black/charcoal one looks like it has been carved in a soft stone similar to some Inuit/Eskimo tourist knickknacks I’ve seen . The red ones look like they are carved from red plasticine." I know what he means I've put a Totem Pole up here exactly as he describes and seen those stylised whales (they're ocean-going mammals Mr President, not countries!) in the same blackish material.

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events; Saturday 26th October - Friday 1st November 2019

Boris is blackmailing Parliament, Trump is sending his goons in to break-up cross-party hearings, Bolsonaru is advising the Italian right, and all 'Tabloid Britain' wants is some poor cow from the 'States to be extradited for a traffic accident?

Let's get things into perspective here peep's, the kid was 19, and on a motorcycle, about the commonest combination involving death after 'Driving hatchback aged 21 with three drunk girls on the backseat'?

The 'diplomat's' wife (he was a spy and his career is almost certainly over if not seriously curtailed) was on the wrong side of the road, a situation I've found myself in every-time I've left the Autobahn at Herne - I didn't kill anyone; so nobody's after me!

She had offered to cooperate, and the finding would have been 'accident' or at the worst 'misadventure', but the US spooks panicked and whisked her away, yet it's not a major diplomatic spat, it's only a Tabloid over-reaction and miss-representation, which the boy's - understandably heartbroken - parents are being encouraged to ride to the max, with both Boris and Trump trying to get capital from it - the pair of turds.

There is no guilty party, ergo; there are no 'winners', only losers.

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 26th October 2019

Brentwood - J&J Fairs (John & Julie Webb)

International hall, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN

Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com

eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com

Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)

10:00 - Approx. 14:30hrs

Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2

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Clocks change back to GMT prior to Sunday morning

Sunday 27th October 2019

Doncaster - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Doncaster Racecourse'

Doncaster Exhibision Centre, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission - Adults £4, Seniors £3.50p, Children £1, 'Early Bird' (from 8 a.m.) £10
Plenty of free parking

Orpington - SRP Toyfairs

Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR

Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk

eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

Reading - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs - Toy Fair & Exhibition

(Incorporating 'Reading Vintage Toy Fair')

Rivermead Leisure Centre, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8QE

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01270 652 773

Mob. - 07825 631 323

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £4.00, accompanied children under 16 free, 'early bird' (from 08:30hrs) £10.00, 'lazy bird' (from 09:30hrs) £7.00

Parking, refreshments, full facilities

Layouts and displays

Dateline show - dealers should carry stock up to 1995 only

{If you've never been you should give it a go, it's one of the better shows in the year's calendar}

Seaford - Robert Horsecroft - Toy & Antique Collectors Fair

Downs Leisure Centre, Sutton Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 4QW

Internet presence unknown

Tel. 1 - 01323 899 879

Tel. 2 - 01424 846 676

10:00 - 14:30hrs

Admission £1.50p, children under 12 free

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Tuesday 29th October 2019

Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - 36th Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)

Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ

Web. - www.newcomenfairs.co.uk

eMail - sales@newcomenfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01226 744 425

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission £1.50p, children 50p

Garstang - Janet Pearson - Garstang Evening Fair

Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR

Web-presence unknown

01282 439 009

18:00 - Finnish

Admission fee unknown

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Thursday 31st October 2019

Theydon Bois - Joe Lock Fairs (evening fair)

Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex, CM16 7ER

Internet presence unknown

Mob. - 07866 641 215

19:00-21:00hrs

Admission £1

(expect needy children with buckets)

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Auctions

Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th October 2019

Newbury - Special Auction Services (SAS) - Two-day Auction

81 Greenham Business Park, Newbury, West Berkshire, RG19 6HW

Web - www.specialauctionservices.com

eMail - mail@specialauctionservices.com

Tel. - 01635 580595

Fax. - 0871 714 6905

Toy trains and model railways

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Wednesday 30th October 2019

Warrington - Warrington & Northwich Auctioneers & Valuers

551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, Warrington WA5 7TP

Web. - www.warringtonauctions.co.uk

eMail - enquiries@warringtonauctions.co.uk

Tel. - 01925 658 833

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Thursday 31st October 2019

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions (2-day sale)

Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

Tel. - 01642 750 616

General toy sale

"The General Toy sale to be held on the 31st of October features boxed and unboxed groups of Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, Solido, Sunstar, Lledo, Minichamps, Vanguards and many others. Plus, British Touring Car Champions groups, Piccolino boxed white metal vehicles and kits, Matchbox Super Kings Tankers, Tekno and WSI trucks and trailers; and Corgi Forward March groups, gift sets and Aviation Archive. The sale will also include TV and Film related models, modern tinplate vehicles, Hot Wheels re-carded and boxed set groups and Matchbox of Yesteryear collections. There is also a good selection of Football memorabilia, board games, jigsaws, pictures, book and magazines, Videos, Scalextric, Mega Bloks and Lego, plus a number of soft toys and Steiff Jolly Golly and Bear sets."

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Other Events

Clocks change back to GMT prior to Sunday morning

Thursday 24th (yesterday) - Sunday 27th October 2019

Glasgow - Stitch & Hobby - The Creative Craft Show

SEC, Glasgow, Scotland

Web. - www.stitchandhobby.co.uk

(If you are near or passing it might be very useful for tools or materials for modellers or figure painters)

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Saturday 26th October 2019

Lyndhurst - Wendy Hobday - Dolls & Doll's Houses

Community Centre, Main Car Park, Lyndhurst, Hants, SO43 7NY

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01895 834 348

Hours unknown

Admission fee unknown

Holt - MGM Fairs - Dolls & Doll's Houses

Holt Community Centre, Kerridge Way, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6DN

Website - www.mgmfairs.co.uk

Email - enquiries@mgmfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 07818 462448  

Hours [probably] - 10:30-15:00hrs

Admission [probably] - adults/seniors: £2.50, children: 50p

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Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th October 2019

Farnham - Maltings - Festival of Crafts

Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Long Bridge Road, Farnham, Surry, GU9 7QR

Web. - www.farnhammaltings.com

Saturday - 10:00-17:00hrs (approximately)

Sunday - 10:00-16:30hrs (approximately)

(This is more of a general show (I've been) and among the pottery and glass-blowers there is dolls stuff, novelty stuff and Christmas stuff - worth a punt!)

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Saturday 26th October - Sunday 3rd November 2019

Cardiff - Museum of Wales - Traditional Fairground

St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales

Web. www.museum.wales

In addition to the above the whole period will be knee-deep in Halloween stuff, Diwali stuff and 'Half-Term' stuff, some of which may have useful stalling-out or novelty/trinket purchasing opportunities! So check your local-press, local library or 'High Street' notice-boards for the next week or three? And then we'll be into the Christmas Market season . . . eight weeks to go!

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Overseas Events

Clocks [UK Time] change back to GMT prior to Sunday morning

 - should only affect you if travelling from Britain over-night

Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th October 2019

Friburg (Switzerland) - Retro Technico - Toy, Music and Technology Fair

Forum Building, Friburg FR, Switzerland

Tel. - ++0793 283 200

(Toys, trains & railway, musical instruments and vintage PC/gaming gear)

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Sunday 27th October 2019

Feytait (France) - CAJAF - 20th Old & Collectable Toy's Fair

Incorpoating the '1st Limobricks' Lego event

Espace/Salle Georges Brassens, Salles du pastel et Pierre Louis, Place de l'Europe, Marie de Faytiat, Faytait, Limoges 87220, France

eMail - limobricks@gmail.com (brick event only)

Tel. I - ++0636 979 667

Tel. II - ++0682 226 138

Tel. III - ++0683 495 908

Admission free

Free parking

Genval (Belgium) - 68 Art - Toy Auction

Manoir du Chateau du Lac, Au Matin's Manoir, Avenue Hoover 8, 1332 Genval, Belgium

Web. - www.68-art.com

eMail - info@68-art.com

Tel. - ++0486 382 054

Tel. - ++026 449 767

Auction 10:00-15:00hrs

Viewing Friday 25th (today) & Saturday 26th 10:00-19:00hrs

München (Munich, Germany) - Automania - Toy Fair

MAN-Truck-Forum, Munich, Germany

Tel. - ++06221 786 422

Die-cast and general toys

Steinsel (Luxembourg) - Module-Club Luxembourg - Train & Railway Show

Centre de Loisirs Norbert Melcher, Steinsel, Luxembourg

Tel. - ++0661 682 404

Thann (France) - Thierry Dungler - 34th International Toy Exchange

Centre Sportif, Collège Charles Walsh, Rue Jean Flory, Thann 68, France

eMail - thierry.dungler@gmail.com

Tel. I - ++0033 / 6 / 85 550 046

Tel. II - ++0389 372 686

09:30-17:00hrs

Troisdorf (Germany) - Jürgen Hörner - Toy Fair

Stadhalle Troisdorf, Troisdorf, Germany

Tel. - ++0210 351 133

Wanze (Belgium) - AMAF - Toy & Train Fair

Salle Binamé Spirou, Wanze, Belgium

Tel. - ++085 713 343

Zürich (Switzerland) - Ursula Alber - Toy Fair

Kunsthaus Vortragsaal, Zürich, Switzerland

Tel. - ++00436 644 041 926

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If you are an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model, collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here -  FOR FREE  - or linked to; please eMail me -

maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com

- stating the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features - parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event subject matter &etc.

And please mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in case they go to the 'junk' folder, from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're there!

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H is for How They Come-in

Two bears! That was it this week; two bears for a quid, or beyahs as Arnie would call them -

"Gim'me your beyah, noowww, or'hy blowyouwaayyy!"

That's how the cookie crumbles sometimes, you get good weeks and we've just had a few in a row, and you get quiet weeks, this was one of those, but I did get those gliders for next time - another quid!

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Links

Having covered a doll's house wagon earlier in the week here at Small Scale World!

Army-men-girls-gate reaches The Times of India! It had hit the Daily Wail the day before.

Headsup for a forthcoming event in South Africa, a first for Small Scale World!

Wargaming in Bahrain - wear something sensible, don't take booze and try to say something intolerant of women, gays, or Sunis or should it be Shia's?

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Staff Stuff

Parcels' cometh there, two . . .

"I think there's something in this end boss, but it's a bit tight!" (Loyal readers - it was empty)

"I'll try the other ennnn..?!?..d"

"WHUMMP!"

"Wheeeeooowww!"  (Loyal readers - cat; head-over-backwards, polystyrene baton, empty-box-one and empty-box-two all disappeared over the side of the bed before this shot was in the camera! They are supposed to be good at balance?)

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Other Stuff

Walnuts, gathered from over the tracks, the same day I shot the Rosemary beetle, drying under the fire after I left them too long in the bag and their cases turned to a heap of quid-ink black-jelly mess! But I ate five after this shot was taken and the nuts are fine!

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