T is for There's More - Happy S&S Easter 2019!

Back on track and up-to-date with these shots, Brian did send some other Scully & Scully stuff (I think we've seen one?), but it was eclectic, if exquisite glassware, some of which are in a pending fish round-up and others will filter in to odd posts or as illustrators for points in 'News, Views . . .' type posts in the future.

We'll start with a close-up of the swing vignette from the end of the delayed 2017 post earlier this morning. These are all so well painted and I love the birch-bark on the fence - an idea for gamers looking to paint their trees differently?

Seen last year, but new dress and bow tie, and the balloons are different!

Third outing see pastels replace the alternate green/red combo's of previous years!

From the other side this year; Lamby's looking forward to his eggs, but you can still send them to me!

Both seen before, but they never seem to use the same ones twice, this tree has green leaves absent from the other blossomed one and the decorator is all new colours.

Ah! There's hedgehog, I was beginning to thing he was still hibernating! Another of my favourites as there is just so much detail packed into the engraving and it's all so beautifully painted.

Heh-hay! The old favourite is concentrating on his urgent deliver again! All new colours.

This is new, delightful may-pole dance . . . with eggy-ropes, they're gonna' get tangled, especially with those birds doing their own thing with two other ropes! I left the iconic NY taxi-cab in the reflection!

No eggs! And the barrow apparently from the Airfix Waterloo Accessory Set!

As always; a huge thanks to Brian for sending these to the blog, and getting such good shots through the store windows. If these don't peak your appreciation of Nuremburg or Kulmbach flats, nothing will - except some liveried knights maybe; you Philistine!

Happy Easter 2019 everyone!

S is for Scully & Scully - Happy Easter 2017!

Do you remember a year ago, when I posted Brian Berke's kindly contributed S&S Easter window display, and waxed lyrical about his other sending's on the same subject - exquisitely painted whitemetal flats, well I had intended to post a link (then) to the previous ones, but couldn't find them, so changed the sentence to some fluff about the previous posts and left it at that.

The reason I couldn't find them was because they had never been posted! I'd posted the Christmas ones, but somehow missed these -  well, there's no 'somehow' about it, they were in a folder within a folder and weren’t showing in Picasa, it wasn't that I'd tagged them wrong, or forgotten to tag them, I'd not put them on the blog . . . so, may I present 2017's Scully & Scully Easter flats, courtesy of Mr B, and apologise to him for losing a contribution!

We've seen this one before in 2018 with a different colour way, and will see it again later! Probably my favourite, there's so much going on! The tree is done as a green one here and as a full cherry-blossom bloom further down the page.

Choir Practice!

Loving the spokes on this one! With last year's scooter and bike, there's quite a convoy building-up for anyone who does collect these!

I'm not sure it's healthy to feed chocolate-eggs to lambs, but I guess if it's only once a year? Or you could send them to me . . . just saying!

The tree behind, now full of blosson, with egg's on sticks in front . . . do you have to keep them all spinning?!!

That's one well-travelled hedgehog; anywhere there's chocolate - there's hedge-pig!

A busy scene to finish, the vignette in the foreground may be from a standard farm range, while the boating couple were also seen last year as a colour-swap; her in green, him in red! They'll be in new colours later, and we'll have a better shot of the swing.

Brian - these are a real treat every time, and I know they're not easy to shoot through plate-glass windows - many thanks as always, I'm sure I'm not the only one starting to look forward to these posts!

Happy Easter 2017 everyone!

News, Views, Etc . . . Forthcoming Events Friday 19th - Friday 26th April 2019

I'll knock the opining on the head as it's a holy-day weekend! I'm too soft; that's my trouble! [Really - it's because everthing's been a bit last minute in the last couple of days!]

Loads of stuff to entertain the toy-collecting masses over the coming week, with Maidstone probably the highlight? No new 'Other Events' though, but check the two previous 'Forthcomming' posts for those which are still ongoing, especially if you've younger peep's to entertain over the next few days.

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Toy Fairs

Good Friday 19th April 2019 (Bank Holiday)

Midhust - SRP Fairs

The Grange, Bepton Road, Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 9HD

Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk

eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

[Probably] 10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

Leigh - Barry Stockton Fairs - Train & Toy Collectors fair

Leigh Sports Centre, Sale Way, Leigh, WN12 0HQ

Web. - http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/
Tel. - 01513 343 362

Admission Charge unknown

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Saturday 20th April 2019

Maidstone - Maidstone Vintage Toy Fair

Lockmedow Market Hall & Leisure Complex, Barker Road (Hart Street entrance), Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8LW

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01622 298 159

Mob. - 01732 840 787

09:00 - 15:00hrs

Admission £2.50p

Park & ride, pay and display parking, refreshments

Chester - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs

The Cheshire Country Club Sports Club, Plas Newton Lane, Upton, Cheshire, CH2 1PR

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01270 652 773

Mob. - 07825 631 323

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Admission £2.00

Free Parking

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Easter Sunday 21st April 2019

Eastbourne - Robert Horscraft - Eastbourne Toy & Model Collectors Fair

East Dean Village Hall, East Dean, East Sussex, BN20 0DR

Internet presence unknown

Tel. I - 01323 899 879

Tel. II - 01424 846 676

Hours unknown

Admission £1.50, under-12's free

Free Parking, refreshments,

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Monday 22nd April 2019 (Bank Holiday)

Bridnorth - Toy & Train Collectors Fairs (Tony Oakes)

Bridgnorth Leisure Centre, High Town, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 4ER

Internet presence unknown

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Tel. - 01270 652 773

Mob. - 07825 631 323

Admission £2, accompanied children under-16 free.

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Friday 26th April 2019

Alfreton - Toy and Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening Fair

The Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD

Web. - www.tttf.co.uk

Mob. - 07951 072 790

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Auctions

Wednesday 24th - Friday 26th April 2019 (Maybe?)

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions (3-day sale - maybe?)

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

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

Note: The only dates they've given me are 24th (part 1 of the Simon Hope Matchbox Collection) and the 30th (a very important Star Wars sale, more on which later/next week), however they had previously advertised a Train Sale for the 26th (Friday) a while ago, and Collectors Gazette are listing sales on the 24th, 25th AND 26th, so check with Vectis to see what's what, it's not my job!

24th April

"A long-standing customer of Vectis Auctions has chosen the company to offer the first part of his collection on the 24th of April. Part one comprises a thinning down of his collection, with Simon retaining a core to display at home. The 618 Lots include many interesting Regular wheels and Superfast variations for the dedicated collector, along with entry level estimates for groups of models. Something for everyone! Highlights include a rare Ford Galaxie police car, a Ford Fairlaine station wagon, a Ford Heavy Wreck Truck and a Cadillac sixty special."

25th April (maybe?)

General Toy sale?

26th April (maybe?)

Model railway/train sale?

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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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Other News

Let's parler Franglaise: Le webesiete Vichy l'et downe pour les cauntretemps unfortunate! Or something (it wasn't clear in Google translate?), but is appears a fight or some verbal pushing led to virtual fisticuffs and tziegheil'44 (a good year for the left) has shut the site down until everyone calms down or stops crying. I bet I can name the three most likely to have been involved and further bet at least one of them was Banzai's makeitup's-man, but I sadly missed the whole thing!

Strangely - given one of his lieutenants (and right-hand mouse) was almost certainly involved, TJF has remained remarkably silent on the matter, no news flash from the PSTSM headquarters' for us! But then, they are probably busy working on all those reports they announced with a flourish in January as forthcoming from the Toy Fairs in Nuremburg, New York, Nanjing . . . Nantwich . . . Noseby-on-the-Nase?

It's funny, if PSR goes down (even with forewarning), there's a rending of garments and ger'nashing of teeth on all the other main platforms, likewise if HäT's ETS goes down, you can hear the lamentation in Mongolia, but Vichy goes down and this; that wot you is reading, here, now, is it! There's a lesson there for all of us!

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H is for How They Come In

Picked-up a Waddington's board game and an Epixx figure which will both be separately posted sometime, but in the meantime a couple of bits to show you . . .

More dinorasers, these double-up as pencil tops and came from one of the card shops, but I can't remember which one, I know it wasn't Clinton's or Birthdays, so it's one of the others! And they were also gathered several weeks ago but missed that week's post!

This was a charity-shop purchase, originating in the pinky-purple zone of toy stores. One of several I now have, I'll Blog them all together one day when I'm feeling particularly mean! But the quite reasonable 54/56mm PVC-like figures set this one apart! No idea on maker/brand, but when I do blog them I'll have all the old Argos/Index/TRU catalogues to guide me!

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L is for the Last Supper

Something a bit austere for Good Friday, is Good Friday meant to be austere, or is that Ash Wednesday and when was (or is) Ash Wednesday? Given that the Lord (if you believe in him) burnt his own cathedral to the ground at the start of the second holiest of Holy Weeks (and what message did that send his believers - as far as I know the Burning Bush never lost a leaf!) and that the whole holiday is supposed to be a memorial to the slow, painful, death by suffocation of crucifixion; it ought to be more austere in its entirety than the face-stuff it's become? Ascension Day should be the face-stuffing day - Zombie Jesus!

No branding; no pack drill; probably Italian. A larger lump of poured resin or the euphemistic 'polystone' I shot through the window of a furniture store in Aldershot a year ago and forgot to show you last year! The figures were only around 60mm, so quite compatible with a lot of other stuff, particularly biblical figures, not least - of course - those plinth-based Marx TJF keeps finding!

H is for Hangers

I don't for sure know the history of these, I believe in some parts of the world 'tree hangers' have some tradition at Easter as they do at Christmas, and they only do at Christmas here because they were imported during Victorian/Edwardian times by our 'German' royalty as an early example of globalisation!

However they (hangers) are now becoming an Easter 'thing' over here, and while it's still only in some strata of society, I picked up a bag of them in a charity shop the other day and we'll have a quick shufti - as it's Easter and they're figural!

Only the one duplicate (green-egg hugger) and they are poured-resin with nylon-cord string-hangers. They are what they are.

Hollow, blow-moulded rabbits. The technique seems to involve an element of either cutting/stamping or very thin-walled moulds, as two of the figurines have strange bubbles of flash (arrowed) which have a slim join to the product as if the hot polymer has leaked into an adjoining - yet restrictive - chamber, I can't get my head round picturing it to be honest!

They are like the waste you would get from between repeat stampings in sheet material, maybe a measured shot of polymer is blown into a mold as it stamps together - like a glass bottle mould? Or am I talking crap!

E is for Eggtastic!

Kicking-off a small Easter season, or small season of Easter posts? Anyway, these are old Hungarian egg-painting designs, recorded in the main cultural museum in Hungary which I did name in the past but can't find the notes for! It'll be their equivalent of the V&A or 'British' in London or New York's Metropolitan.

Strange how reminiscent of some other tribal art - from all over the world - some of these designs are, while the pointillist or stippled hatching is very like some Australian native work. I think I like the oak-leaf design (dead centre) most.

Slightly more geometric and/or repeat or mirror designs in red and white, whether they painted the eggs red or white before putting the other colour on, or if they are single colour designs for white or brown eggs is not so clear, but I suspect they are meant to be two colours, as the little kids/infants could block-in and feel they'd helped, while older kids or adults could do the intricate work in a second colour?

My favourite is probably the top-left one, which is another very Aboriginal-looking design.

Have an Eggtastic Easter loyal readers!

Q is for Question Time - Tentage!

Which Spellchecker doesn't like, but then it's American and they probably have 'Ordnance Haberdashery' or something . . . 'Bulk Bivouacs' , in the British army it's tentage, and this tentage is all looking for branding, and not W^D!

As I had one of the tent boxes out the other day, I shot a few of the question marks, and there's pretty-much something for everyone here; a bit of modern polymer, and bit of card and a bit of tin-plate!

Placky-fantacky!

This medieval skullduggery-plotting, for the use of, marquee seems to be pretty modern, manufactured in polypropylene (or some dense, soapy-feel, nylon'y ethylene?), and the blue is probably home paint, I haven't stripped it off as it looks like the sort of PVA blue which tends to stain, so I'll strip if when I'm ready to repaint - whenever that is!

Ends keep falling off!

I wondered if this might be New Ray, or someone similar; a stiff-card tent, pre-cut at the fold-seams and slotting into plastic end-pieces, one open and one closed? But I can't find it in any of my New Ray sources, so some other 'rack-toy' playset? To be honest it could be 'action-figure' sized?

Sharp as a razor!

Bit of age on this one but not as much as you might suspect - I suspect! A sort of tail-end of the hollow-cast era; maybe 1950's? Before that, they (hollow-cast or solid toy soldier box-set accessories) were usually little cotton or linen tents with wire poles and a card base, this is less realistic than those and cheaper to produce - I imagine. Crescent maybe, they did tin-forts and stuff with some of their sets?

Glasto' - can't find his tent - getting berserk!

Anyway that's them; minimal blurb . . . anyone recognise any of them?

F is for Follow-up - Library 'Quiz'

A bit late now, but I took 'em, meant to do something with 'em and need to clear them the hell-out of Picasa and onto a dongle, so let's have a quick look if only just to say 'done'!

So the rat (Lego) was on the Yesteryear (Matchbox) bonnet [hood], the rabbit family (Britains) were in the park, the unknown Dinosaur - a kind of Kerthunkersaurus - was hiding in the woodline and the rack-toy/Halloween party-favour spider was in the back of a dusbin-lorry, which some might consider the best place for a spider!

I'll try to remember to post the answers a bit quicker next year . . . later this year!