Here's one I sorted a few minutes ago, 5/6am, don't ask! It's the bits in Chris Smith's Spring Donation, which we looked at on the Home Blog here - the shot's near the end of the post;
And it consisted of a larger separated bag, and a bunch of loose stuff through the box.
These were bagged as two loose samples, and kept together for convenience
Get 'em out!
And we'll quickly look at the smaller lot from the bottom of the donation-box.
Some of this has already been on one Blog or the other, and useful stuff includes both cracker/gum-ball types, one of each, a Blue Box wagon horse, a 'Toytown' horse in green, which is on the Blog now, some riders and foot figures sorted by type/base-marking, and a 'Mexican' horse. We'll put these to one side and do the big bag.
Initial sorting gives us five obvious piles with some question-marks over riders and various single/small samples of horses/loose figures.
One of the 'Rim Saddle's I think, a lot of human casualties in a landfill somewhere but a nice clean sample of the horses and clean in cleanliness as well as type - little damage, dirt, or dust. You'll be surprised (or not!) at the state of how some of these have come in over the years, sticky with sweet or lollipop residue, covered in half-crystallised cake remains, tangled-up with long strands of human hair, coloured with
Biro or marker pen, glued-together with emulsion-paint . . . quite nasty sometimes!
I then remove the riders, to check them against each other and reduce the space they will take up. You can see there's a consistency with plastic colour, and the chunky rounded nature of the locating studs which are in the same general area (ankle), pretty happy with these, so they go together in their own bag.
Same exercise with these 'Jogging' horses and we can check the rider against the master collection because they went on the Home Blog, fourteen years ago!
And, although the colours aren't a good match, there are similarities in the figure style, especially the fine woodwork of the bow, and the large head on the tomahawk, so again; pretty satisfied with the sample's integrity, they go in a bag.
Same thing with the recently seen here 'Wavymane's, in such a small sample, it's hard to make definitive choices, and as I explained in the caveats on those recent posts, the Type 2 (early and late) can't be as clean as the 1, 3 or subsequent type-samples and here I've moved the red figure down with six 2 Late's and moved two of the loose figures to the four 2 early's on the top row,, and they get two bags, as those two samples.
Four 'Pony's one of which one had a rider, we've had two of the types on this Blog, and their third type is in the Picasa queue, so we can check, these have a flat top to the body cavity, and no mark, which shows the horses are Pony 2 and the figure probably doesn't go with the horses, but I allowed caution to get the better of me, and left him in their bag - I suspect he's a very late Wavymane 2 rider?
There were two 'Pre Wavy's, nice they're hard to find! And the figure with his parallel-rod balled locating studs, ticks the box on them so even better, in a bag they go!
Three 'Dogface' horses, these have been ID'd through several mint sets, as being the draft animals for generic
Giant knock-off chariots, so can go in a bag, but I have a feeling, somewhere in the stash, or the TBS stuff or my evilBay image downloads they have now also been associated with Wild West subjects too? So we'll have to see, when we return to them at some point?
'Smoothie' or Smoothie-like (and a Mexican!) and not a
Giant mark among them, the orange cowboy is good enough to be a late/immediate post-
Giant figure, but could be the missing 'Pre Wavy' rider (I don't think so), so they get a bag with a note that they still need to be checked further.
Which leaves the "Mixed TBS" dregs! Here the two riders won't be removed, they could be a clue as to horse/rider combo's, and until they are properly sorted against all the known samples (some 50-odd) and/or the unknown but isolated samples, they should stay with their mounts, to be also compared with other unknown but "came together" samples in the hope they can, then, all (horses and riders) be unified from the unknown bags.
Which gives us this. I can then unite a few of the small bags contents with the Wavymane and Smoothie samples, leaving us with a few odds to the right. As I know the
Timpo-pose riders go with the similar
Britains Swoppet (poor sculpt) foot figures, they get put together (and will appear here on
BiiG - as we can call it! - shortly), while the others are stand-alone, and easy to sort from these mixed lots . . . and a green Toytown!
Everything sorted and bagged there are no notes on the obvious bags, and I would normally use post-it notes, or paper scraps, but it was a photo-shoot rush job, and the marker pen will remove with alcohol or sprits of some kind if I'm minded to save the bags when they get emptied into the master samples during the next 'Big Sort'. Sometimes I'll use Biro, which ruins the bag,, and you need a good one/right one, or they won't write on the plastic!
And that's it, it's back in the old bag, until either a future Big Sort, or maybe an interim sort to get various clean samples to together - the more you unify, the less space is lost!
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