Heres a great show and tell from guest Blogger, Hugh from Small Scale World. Hugh specialises in toy soldiers and similar figures and has a great blog here. Stay tuned for a great article on LP spacemen from him!Meanwhile, he's sent over some nice pieces in the shape of a german Rocket Bank and a rather cool cap rocket from Argentina. This is very unusual in that it includes an astronaut pilot! The bank is possibly made by Manurba (Manfred Urban) and dates from the 50's. Still on a Manurba thread, he sent the shot of the 30mm white metal astronuts in very distinctive suits. He suggests that there would probably have been 8 in a full set and the design would suggest quite an early release.
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Wonderful! Welcome to Hugh! I love that little yellow rocket - its the Cohete Lunar and has a Spacex Nova rocket on its backing card. Looking forward to more from Hugh.
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Just noticed that that rocket bank actually has Dutch wording on it (not German). So had a google and discovered BAC was the savings bank of the Belgian christian labour movement. It later became known as BACOB and, after the merger trend of the past decade, then became part of what is now Dexia Bank.
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Er...it's me, bow to Paul on the nationallity of the bank, the little 30mm are plastic not whitemetal, with the standard W.GERMANY mark of that cold-war era.
ReplyDeleteKeep digging, the answers are there somewhere! Cheers Hugh