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.