F is for Follow-up - Place Marker / Glass Hangers

Remember those two figures Peter Evans sent the Blog around Christmas-time and my tale of woe in trying to get some surfer-babes only to find you needed to remortgage your house to purchase them? Well Terranova sent these and judging by the price sticker, it's the same story the other side of the pond!

Now these are hard to make out, the one on the far right seems to be giving a thumbs-up sign, but number three looks to be 'flicking the bird'. Far left may be thumbs up, while 2 would appear to be giving a Papal-blessing! I suspect they are all thumbs-up and it's just my imagination? Inspired anyway - the sort of stuff Archie McFee used to do!

But these are NPW, previously associated - here on the blog - with cheapie-budget stuff, yet the four come in at a frankly eye-watering . . .

. . . $15! Which is around the same price as that I baulked-at in Basingrad's new M&S back in the January sales, I guess they're aimed at the sorts of Trumpundbrexit 'eer celeb-culture types who will pay to have the 'right stuff' at their party?

'Men in Uniform'? I think we're talking a Village People tribute act at the Blue Oyster Club here, aren't we? Not so much publicly-spirited, uniformed professional types, nor heroically serving Blue Watch night-after-night while the nation sleeps, but rather baby-oiled,  semi-dressed, hen-night heroes - pumping to the beat!

Cheers Brian - has anyone else seen these, what others are out there, we've seen Her Madge The Twoeth, Surfer Dudes, JC and the above, I know there are bikini-girls (keep the surfer-dudes happy!), but there must be others? They're 54mm give-or-take!

T is for Two - Novelty Place Marks

In the after-Christmas sales I found a carded set of six young ladies in different coloured bikinis, but there was no price label on them even though they were in the crimbo-clearance zone of John Lewis's new huge aircraft-hanger of a store in Basingrad.

I took it to the till, thinking if it's more than three-quid I won't bother, explained to the checkout-staff-person that it was in the clearance isle, but didn't have a sticker and could she give me a price, which she did "It's eight-ninety-nine sir?" she said, "That's OK" I said, "I'll leave it, thanks!"

As a result I can't show them to you, but then I ran into Peter Evans last week and he thrust these at me . . .

'Her Madge' and a man called Brad in blue trunks! They're not far off the magic 54mm either, although she has more to offer after the addition of a base then he has, he can only peep-over things!

They look to be from the same source as the bikini-girls I saw back at the start of the month, same plastic, same names on the back, same kind of decoration - what else is out there?

Thank you Peter!

8-06-18 - Probably NPW? Follow-up now here