Thinking back to last week's car boot I recall seeing some Comansi boxed Wild West figurines. Not particularly old [discontinued in 1995] these Spanish statuettes are great fun and I've sold a few myself on my old toy stall in the 00's.
A good example is the Davy Crockett figure, which I found on Worthpoint and Todocollecion. Nicely detailed and painted, I can imagine these making a superb display collection.
Googling for Davy I also found this image of a beautiful Disney Crockett watch with his powder horn [or is it for blowing?]. A gorgeous boxed set, I would have adored it as a kid. I think this is from the 1950's and shows the actor Fess Parker. Do you know him?
Seeing that horn reminded me of a toy set I had as a kid, a Davy Crockett [or was it Daniel Boone?] toy 'weapons' set carded and in a bag. It included a plastic horn, a pipe of peace and a tomahawk. Somewhere in the attic I've got two of them, both slightly different, which I found at a toy fair in the 1990's and bagged them straight away!
When I venture into the attic later, looking for the paddling pool from last summer, I'll snap them!
Fess Parker played both Davy Crockett in the 1950s, and Daniel Boone in the 1960s. There were a lot of figures depicting Davy Crockett, from the big Marx playsets, down to the much smaller Atlantic set in HO scale from Italy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info Paul. I probably saw those films as a kid. I bet there were kits too.
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