Zigg made mention of how much he liked the rocket ship pictured in my MB 16th birthday greeting.
The bank is from the 1950s and stands 10"H and is a variation on the 'pointy tube with fins' rocket design with the fins being quite long.
From Vegas Base
Ed
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PS. From Arto:
As an addendum to my comment on Ed's fabulous post about the Foster Grant Rocket Bank, here's a snapshot of my Fosta bank along with two Tudor Rose variants (and friends). The red rocket bank is the one pictured in the seminal book on plastic space toys, Blast-Off!
Arto
Helsinki Base
One of my favourites Ed, so sleek, so Fifties!
ReplyDeleteTudor Rose issued its own British monochrome version of this rocket bank at least in two colours, red and gray.
That is one of the most beautiful rocket designs I've ever seen. Very much influenced by the 1930s streamline design craze, it looks like it could have come from one of the Universal Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serials. And the colors are perfect, influenced certainly by the pulp fiction art of Frank Paul and others. A stunning artifact - thanks for sharing! SFZ
ReplyDeleteAnother great looking old toy. It just makes you think of Flash Gordon.
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