I picked up these pirates in Bungay.
They're by cake topper kings Culpitt. I always look for languishing astronauts in their stand but never find any.
Why? LP spacemen were often re-packaged by Culpitt back in the Seventies and Eighties and similar outfits too across the world and sold as cake decorations. They even feature in Culpitt's old cake decorating books.
Have you any Culpitt figures or old cake decorations? Pictures welcomed!
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Could be fun to take that one guy in foreground package, paint knife in his teeth to look like a slide rule and see if anyone ever guesses the sicfi novel cover art it references.
ReplyDeleteOooh! I had to Google that one!
ReplyDeleteMurray Leinster's Pirates of Ersatz.
A great reference, but over my head!
But ya had fun finding out, didn't ya!
DeleteErsatz is German for spare as in Ersatz Reifen or spare tyre.
ReplyDeleteSo, spare pirates!
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