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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Q is for Question Time - Small Mortar

Chris Smith is asking about this small mortar which he thinks may be a minor British maker's, and I have to concur with him as . . .

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. . . it's not the first time I've seen one, and I'm pretty sure the last time I saw one it was ID'd by someone at the time, being then - myself - a small scale collector I clearly didn't pay enough attention, and wasn't taking notes!

I also have a half a memory I've seen either the same one or another, tied into (or onto) a base-card with a bit of thread looped over the base bars at two or three points. Is anybody able to help Chris with his little mortar?

Late memory coming as I post . . . is a hook and sky-crane type helicopter involved?

I should add that it's quite small, about 25mm high?