Winding-up the Sandown purchases from a month ago now, and it's mostly animals, and the Wild West, with a few odds & sods, cartoon, TV-Movie stuff and the like, to look at this time.
I have two beliefs about this set (which was a gift from John Begg, I think), one is that it's from the same series as the
#445 Mobile Task Force, and
Space Explorer sets issued by
Gordy,
Woolbro and others, this being one 'sock' instead of two, and a generic issue with no branding-overprint. The other is that we were bought a set each from
Webb's the Newsagent, in Hartley Wintney, by Mum, one wet weekend, in the holidays!
There was a two-sock Fort Cheyenne under the 445-code, but that had a version of the fort, and different figures/horses, so this may be a lookie-likey , and leaves the first belief questionable for now, the second belief is 100%, I well-remember the colour samples, and trying to wiggle the horses hooves into the carpet fibres to keep them standing up!
I bought a second pirate set from the same chap as last time, and it's already been opened and shot for
International Talk Like A Pirate Day, so a couple of months after the last one, and there are already two folders ready for next year!
A mix of HK smallies, including several sub-piracies of the 2nd version knights, in red, I'd had a few yellow ones but I think these are new, usually you find both the
Giant originals and the copies in silver or black. They probably belong on the horses to the right, but this is how they came!
Someone tried to 'mend' a broken tail, by rolling a scrap of faux-suede up, very tight, setting it alight, and stuffing it up the horse's jacksie! Given how common these are, and how many would come in even a small 6d set, that was a hell of an effort! Probably a 'favourite' horse? Kids are a bit like that, you can have fifteen white horses in the bag, but if one's slightly grey and becomes your favourite, you'll move Heaven & Earth to keep in going!
A rather tatty 2nd generation copy of one of the Hong Kong dogs we looked at in a couple of round-up posts a year or two ago, and the smallest King Kong in the world! Certainly the smallest I've seen, who wasn't moulded into a resin
Empire State Building keepsake!
Probably a 1d-1¢, gum-ball capsule prize or Christmas cracker novelty, it really is tiny, less than 20mm! In all other respects it's the same as all other HK gorillas; soft polyethylene, with a basic MADE IN HONG KONG mark.
A sample of broken
Cherilea dinosaurs, which Adrian gave me from his bits box. Useful nevertheless, against colour variations, or even to combine with others into dodgy Dr. Moreau subjects at a later date? I mean they are so rare these days, due entirely to their brittleness, that some are better than none, and they will be added to a bigger sample with some better ones we have seen here, previously, at
Small Scale World.
Two
Britains copies, a rather nice Hong Kong
Herakd clone, from Hong Kong! And a damaged sub-scale rendition of the war-dancing
Swoppet, also from the colony of intellectual property crime!
Kinder, all 1980's, I think. If you were to 'age'
Kinder like comic-fans age their stuff, these would be 'silver age'! The head and hat, is from a slightly different set to the complete figure, I think, while the fire-appliance with two mini plug-in firefighters was late 80's, and I actually kept a few of the tractors at the time, so there's a tub of these to add-to, or cannibalise from, to make whole examples.
Damaged guard from
Cherilea's executioner set, another
Invicta dinosaur, a couple of
Esci Americans and a partial pig, in the style of the
Xandria key-rings, but all 'ethylene, and probably from another source?
Four 'funnimals', and all probbaly
Holly rather than
Lik Be, certainly the llama-like and squirel-thing come in a set with the known
Holly guitar-turtle, while the cow was issued by Mail-Order outfit
Colonial Studios, with a set of otherwise realistic (
Briatins copies) farm animals.
This is just marked Hong Kong, but is not a bad rendition of
Disney's Pluto, and holds-up against the
Marx,
Heimo, and early-
Schleich stuff of the 1970's, a lump of stable-PVC, I guess the ring is the remnants of a key-chain?
More of the cartoon mini-animals often credited to
Kinder, but which predate
Kinder by a decade or two, and were issued as carded 'families', as gum-ball machine prizes and through other such novelty avenues.
Kinder would issue similar 'hard plastics' in the 1980's, but usually larger models.
UK Cereal premiums, haveing other outlets elsewhere, here they were all cereal, with two jig-toys, three of the
Aristocat figures and a
Brian the Snail from the
Magic Roundabout, and while we now know Brian could have been a
Wavyline promotional, I think in this shade of blue, he might be a European ice-cream premium.
I think we might have the Little Baby Jesus (or Moses?) in red here, a rather tatty
Marx Snow White (from Swansea?) and a lovely survivor of Japanese blow-moulded lightness, in the probable 'styrene copy of an earlier celluloid Santa Claus.
