"cute " vinyls

I love how you can never really tell the actual size from photos. I’ve ordered cute old vinyls thinking they are 3-5” and they show up 9-12”

 

Yeah, its happened to me a few times!

 

Bless you Joe! Keeping things beautiful.

 

^^ thanks mate, apparently not everyone enjoys my contributions to SB but as long as people like you get a kick out of them, that's cool with me.

I found this one at the end of last year at a boot sale, it cost me around £2.50 if i remember correctly. 14" high and made of blow mold plastic.
Its certainly for a very small child. The only marking is a stamp that says 'Carefully made in Great Britain 0204'.

Its a bit of a shelf-hog but it fits in with my cute vintage stuff nicely. An impressive centre piece!

 

Vintage Salt & Pepper pots. I bought these a while back at a boot sale, something like a quid for the pair.

 

Vintage squeaker- not Combex for a change, but he's 5" high and fits in perfectly with my 5" Combex squeakers.
Going by the header card i reckon its 1970's but it could be 80's ....



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Love those sprays! Probably lazy and careless on their end, but subtle and perfectly off for me.
Also, no butt shot?

 

Swinging Duck. Thats 'Swinging' not 'Swinger' .... he's not a dirty duck
The plastic is a bit fragile so i didn't attach his wings for the photo, i wanted to get him back in his box without breaking him.

 

Recent bear purchases, vintage Combex

 

Yeah, even with the few catalogues i've found online, there still seems to be an endless supply of sculpts i have never seen before (even after many years of searching). Add to that the Australian devision of Combex, which used different vinyl colours to the UK base and its a dizzying amount ...

I found this one on ebay the other day. Way too much money for my wallet, but they were nice enough to include full scans with their listing:

 

Yeah, i'm particularly fond of 'Vinyl Dump Packs'

Its interesting - i found this old blow-mold rabbit scooter a while ago and had no idea who the manufacturer was. I now have to assume it was Combex going by this catalogue. Also, i unintentionally photographed mine on almost the same angle as this Womble one in the old catalogue.

 

Blue Face Hippo

 

The colors!

 

Combex 1979. Another obscure / forgotten licence, a bit harder to find than the usual stuff. The blue hat fella is easier to find than the red hat female i found the other day. They're from 'Woofits', a series of kids books written by famous chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson.

 

Two old rubber balls i rescued from my parents garden, they said 'they came with the house'. No amount of abrasive cleaning could shift the dirt on them until i used a Mold & Mildew Blaster, and then it came straight off ...

 

I found this at the Malvern Flea Market on Monday for £10. He's a big fella at 10" high. The makers marks have been melted at the base so i don't know who made it, but it looks like a 50's/60's vintage one to me for sure.

I cant figure out if he's supposed to be Porky Pig or one of the three little pigs - or maybe its some other character?

 

Nice one! I love his expression. I’d guess he’s the 3rd, industrious pig, with his bricklayer clothes on!

 

Nice sturdy vinyl. Another toy i assumed was around 4" high and when he turned up he's around 10" high. Which was a nice surprise. No makers marks and he has an articulated head (no surprise, being different coloured vinyl). He's an old one, i haven't cleaned him yet.

 

Chiltern Squirrel with original bag. 5" high squeaker, love those old school red sprays. Made in England.

 

Old Rosebud squeaker, 4.5" high.

 

Super cute!

 

My friends took a few snaps. Not the best quality but you get the idea. This isn't all of it, there's more! - my other mate might have a few more photos on his phone .... i haven't seen his yet.