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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.
Showing posts with label Woodentops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodentops. Show all posts

Sunday, June 3, 2018

F is for Follow-up - Wooden Car

Following the post on the little wooden car the other day Chris Smith (who some of you may remember from his days dealing ex-Soviet era Eastern European toy soldiers at PW's old venue) sent me this set of book-ends by way of a follow-up.

How cool are these? It's a sort of Triumph Spitfire/Porsche 911 hybrid - with luggage-rack holding a school trunk - I'm loving it! Similar to the little one we looked at the other day Chris wondered if it was by the same people; I suspect not, these have a better build-quality for a start, and less intrusive varnish?

The one we looked at the other day was a little tourist novelty to be played with 'on-tour' and dropped over the side of a ferry on the Bodensee by accident, leading to tears before bedtime!

These are by Woodentops of London Chris reports - the link takes you an outfit in Chelmsford which I suspect is a newer and unrelated concern (the bookends look quite 1970's/Habitat?), but they do import from Germany.



Many-thanks to Chris - it's always nice to get feedback by way of a follow-up, which adds to the original post, or the 'bigger-picture'; we like wooden toys here at Small Scale World and the warm glow of nostalgia.

"Eer, Max - It's the laast pair of V8 interceptors. . . race yer . . . with guns!"