This De Speelgoedkrant toy catalogue from the 1970's features some figures that from time to time pop up here on MC, usually at the hands of Bill and Paul V.
This Dutch catalogue featured on the Boonsart sales site is great.
Funny Men are a design classic and you can just about see a boxed set with a horse in the bottom left corner. This set, 208 in the catalogue, is by MORO I think and is listed as something like PAARD MORO at the side.
Do you have anything like this?
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Berwick's Whipper Snappers
And Simex Mini-Boys
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and more Men and Boys!
I never had any of the Funny Men figures, but I did have the Sir Retro Space Helmet in the last picture. Mine was a silver-grey - I do not know if there were any other colours.
ReplyDeleteThat helmet looks like great fun Paul! Not one I had. I wonder if the cartoon strip was part of its national marketing?
DeleteFunny Men or Mini-Boys are of the same ilk as the Fish and Playplax! Really simple, clean design, which doesnt require any thought to play with. Bill
ReplyDeleteThey do look great Bill. Oddly enough I have only ever found one of them at a car boot sale in thirty years and that was a horse and you were there! We missed out on the ladder! Were they not popular in the UK do you think?
DeleteThey were popular in the UK and were marketed by Raphael Lipkin too at one point. I think the problem is that they don't tend to have much in the way of trademarks on them and can be brittle with age. Unless they are found boxed, its hard to ID them and they have been discarded as loose parts from 'something else', rather than a toy in themselves. Bill
DeleteThese are so cool! Very abstract and stylized. I’m sure they would have been much fun to play with. SFZ
ReplyDeleteThey are cool aren't they Zigg!
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