Sometimes a bag of rack-toy junk is easy to sort, and as I garnered more of them, the plotting chart - seen on the introductory page - became irrelevant, as I quickly identified most of the main 'players', either with an associated brand, or a mint (or at least; unopened), generic set. If a sample I've ID'd, or think I've ID'd doesn't have either, I will only ever consider it 90% accurate at best, I like to think I'm a diligent researcher,, and try to bring some academic rigour to the process.
Not that it's even vaguely important, in the 'grand scheme' of things; the big museums are only interested in the big names, but it's given me something to do with an otherwise pretty average life?
And if you (one of the five people actually following these posts!) have been collecting similarly, you've probably reached the same conclusions, on most of the same commonest stuff as well, you may be further along than me, but everything so far published elsewhere, whether on Giant specifically, or Hong Kong hollow-horsed Cowboys & Indians in general, has not sought the same level of factual accuracy!
This is the sort of find which helps in that identification process, from the outside, just a 'bag' of rack-toy Wild West, but upon opening and sorting . . .
. . . we have a single-maker sample. So clean, both in terms of origin, and condition, it can go straight back in the bag, or be transferred to one of my standard sized bags, I use 4x5½" for most things, 6x9 for when a sample outgrows the smaller ones (also, increasingly used for the larger scale stuff I've been collecting since the Home Blog started), with double again for huge sets or set-contents, and teeny 1x2" jewellers bags for small components, or to keep vignettes, machine-guns/ammunition together, or similar tasks.
But the reason I think such a clean sample is worth a post (other than that this Blog has been neglected and needs more content!), is that it's nice illustration of how these are got-up in the factory, or by outworkers, in that the lady (they were almost always female) who had a container full of brown horses, also had yellow figures, the Lady who had black horses, had red figures, while the lady/ies with pink and blue figures or the white horse, were getting to the end of their stock container, where all sorts were at the bottom of the container! Some bloke (they were almost always males) would be coming round to top them up.
I think these are a sub-type of 'Remould', but not one I currently have ready, or near ready in Picasa, so possibly Type 4, or 5, we'll know when I post them in the future! When I get a sample like this, with a narrow colour-spread, I tend to give it a separate bag, within the larger bag, especially if the master sample is a more mixed selection of figure colours, or horse colours/shades, browns can differ greatly, for instance, and keeping them separated just reminds me the individual batches were tighter than the whole 'master sample' might sample suggest.
And the most obvious tip, is, if you are storing these carefully in self-seal bags (like me), or small component trays (as others do), you will more than halve the space taken up by the sample if you separate the riders from the horses! But than means you then have to include a note to yourself, on the matchings, in a sample like this!
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But is it Giant
No.
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