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I’m a 62-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Friday, 13 November 2026

Hong Kong Hollow Horses - Wavymane Type 3 - Candle Holders - Gay Jem

So this will be an image dump, with notes! Some of it is recent evilBay shots, some ancient ones, and others are from the samples I now have, one carded, two loose. The Type is obvious so the imagery can be uploaded in folder order, which might be date or title, I haven't checked!
 
The only other thing to mention here is the addition of a pretty ubiquitous 'Mexican'. I can't remember if the Mexican was marked or not, but it has a bloody-great hole in it's rump and isn't going to be mistaken for another sets' horse!
 

Silver Indians are new with this set/sample.
 
They're for cakes! That's a lemon-drizzle scone by the way!
 
Mexican joins the team, bloody-great hole in it's rump!
 
I originally suposed they must be for towing cracker-guns or wagons!
 

Bloody-great holes!
 

Type 1 Horse, but horses and figures are Type 2 glossier.
 



Gay Jem set.
 



Bit blurry, sorry!
 
The other point worth making, is that out of all of them only one is a third pose, all the rest are intermediate Type 2 riders, firing to the left, so they can go round a cake circular firing outwards, or across a square cake firing at each other!?
 
On the subject of the numbering - while numbered by me as Type 3, they clearly predate the Type 2 Late production, being somewhere between Type 1 and Type 2 Early in horse type/quality, so they could have been a Type 2b between 2a and 2c's, but given how distinct they are, while hard to place between Type's 1 and 2, it was easier to mark them as distinct, by giving them their own number.

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