Anyway, we're back to rubbers, and as I've
had had various 'follow-up's' and 'again's' for erasers in the past I needed
another title and its explanation has provided the lead-in paragraphs!
From four-quid to two-quid to a pound, and
it's probably been halfway round the planet, maybe twice! Novelty shite . . . in
one image, you have all the evidence you need for the potential end of human
civilisation, it's now a race between whether we will poison the planet before
the weather does for us! House of Holland
clearance via TK Maxx.
The reason for my purchasing them - given
my above opinion - is that A) they were there already, nothing I could do about
that and B) you may remember I showed a bunch of mostly Christmas cracker
bowling pins a year or two ago, and while the bulk of them were the same size,
there were a couple of others, and in various materials - with more than two
being a collection; these have increased the scope of that 'sub-' collection!
In the meantime a far easier to justify set
of erasers winged its way to Small Scale World Towers via Brian Berke; Imperial Toys being the ultimate culprit
for the supply of this particularly pure stash of addictive substance!
They appeared upon initial inspection to be
a better version of the Wilko ones we
looked at a while ago, but after studying them I decided they are probably all
of the same origin.
They proved impossible to photograph so
here are two shots, neither is that colour-true, to be honest, but they are
(with the exception of the - always hard to shoot - orange) quite muted pastels
anyway.
Wilkinson above and Imperial below,
the colour reproduction is a little better but the orange has burnt-out. The
differences are numerous, in that the dino's are different colours, the egg is
slightly different in its base 'dent' and both the mix of dinosaurs and their dino-poses
is different.
However the orange carnivore is both the
same shade and the same moulding,the ceratopsians are also identical, the two-each of four colours 'rule' applies
and so I think the differences are down to batch/contract, rather than any
indication of another maker's copying.
The question is whether Wilko are getting theirs from Imperial, or if that they are independently
both going to the same factory gate or shipping agent - these days as likely to be an Alibaba wholesaler's page as any of the old firms?
I might suggest that there's probably an
eighth pose to find (maybe more?), and I've posed them with Airfix's Boy the 'dinoheard' from the Tarzan set to give you some idea of how very
small they are.
Thanks as always to Brian Berke for adding
another piece of the puzzle to the whole, which reminds me; he also sent a couple of Jig Toys which I added to that page last Thursday, nothing new, but interesting colour-way on the helicopter.
