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I’m a 60-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.
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Sunday 6 June 2021

Giant WWII and [the then] Modern Army - Empty Cards

Further to the previous post, I have a few empty cards in the ephemera stash, and it's worth a quick look at them if only to get them up here!

Airfix M40/43 SPG; Armoured Patrol; But Is It Giant?; Esci M12; Giant 3923. New York; Giant 3925; Giant 4123; Giant No. 260; Giant Or What?; Giant Plastics Corp.; Giant WWII AFV's; Half-Track; Jeep; Jeep And Trailer; Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Junior Combat Emblem Set; M12 SPG Cradle; M44/M53/55; M46/47 Hull; N.Y.; Pillbox Attack; Sherman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space-Tank; SPG/Howitzer;
Hard to know what the contents were exactly as the card would seem to indicate vehicles only, but knowledge of these sets would suggest a few figures were almost certainly included, probably in the Jeep & Cannon blister, maybe six-eight figures?

Also, it has a damaged code number, but we know this generation of card tended to have the first two digits as a 'prefix' code indicating the price point, so it's probably (but not necessarily) 3923?

Airfix M40/43 SPG; Armoured Patrol; But Is It Giant?; Esci M12; Giant 3923. New York; Giant 3925; Giant 4123; Giant No. 260; Giant Or What?; Giant Plastics Corp.; Giant WWII AFV's; Half-Track; Jeep; Jeep And Trailer; Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Junior Combat Emblem Set; M12 SPG Cradle; M44/M53/55; M46/47 Hull; N.Y.; Pillbox Attack; Sherman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space-Tank; SPG/Howitzer;
As if to highlight the question marks above, this set has been recorded by Arlin Tawser as 1431 - Pillbox Attack - WWII Pillbox, halftrack, cannon, 12 US Infantry foot. Which certainly equates to the items which came with it, but as you can see mine's coded 3925, not 1431, so Giant clearly didn't have hard and fast 'rules', or - if they did - they didn't follow them!

Airfix M40/43 SPG; Armoured Patrol; But Is It Giant?; Esci M12; Giant 3923. New York; Giant 3925; Giant 4123; Giant No. 260; Giant Or What?; Giant Plastics Corp.; Giant WWII AFV's; Half-Track; Jeep; Jeep And Trailer; Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Junior Combat Emblem Set; M12 SPG Cradle; M44/M53/55; M46/47 Hull; N.Y.; Pillbox Attack; Sherman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space-Tank; SPG/Howitzer;
Giant also made novelty items aplenty, and this is one of them. I may have the badges somewhere, but can't remember, nor can I say with any certainty whether they were simple paper stickers, or self-adhesive fabric. If they turn up I'll put them on the home blog for a bit of nostalgic fun.

I love the way they've written "T" Shirts . . . Yeah, the new funky t-shirts, look, people are calling them that, I've seen it in the press hence the double quotation marks, they're a real thing now, cool and groovy!

Airfix M40/43 SPG; Armoured Patrol; But Is It Giant?; Esci M12; Giant 3923. New York; Giant 3925; Giant 4123; Giant No. 260; Giant Or What?; Giant Plastics Corp.; Giant WWII AFV's; Half-Track; Jeep; Jeep And Trailer; Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Junior Combat Emblem Set; M12 SPG Cradle; M44/M53/55; M46/47 Hull; N.Y.; Pillbox Attack; Sherman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space-Tank; SPG/Howitzer;

This was on the dongle, I think I took it in around 2010 as the old Fuiji Finepix was failing, so it's not the best but they came in as one lot, so I shot them before I put them with the others, and it gets them out of the way!

An hour or two later . . . 

Airfix M40/43 SPG; Armoured Patrol; But Is It Giant?; Esci M12; Giant 3923. New York; Giant 3925; Giant 4123; Giant No. 260; Giant Or What?; Giant Plastics Corp.; Giant WWII AFV's; Half-Track; Jeep; Jeep And Trailer; Jr. Combat Emblem Set; Junior Combat Emblem Set; M12 SPG Cradle; M44/M53/55; M46/47 Hull; N.Y.; Pillbox Attack; Sherman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space-Tank; SPG/Howitzer;
. . . here's another one from the dongles, i think it's from my old imageshack account? You can see with both these how the middle three wheels lift of and compare the various barrels again.

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But is it Giant?

Oooowhyes! Everything above was produced by the Giant Plastics Corporation of New York, New York!