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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.
Showing posts with label ABC (HK). Show all posts
Showing posts with label ABC (HK). Show all posts

Sunday 26 July 2015

ABC - HK - Hong Kong

Hong Kong.
Mark: ABC in a diamond lozenge lying on its long-side.

See also; CK, CM, CMV and HK.

Early (but poorer quality) Hong Kong based pirate producing rack-toys at the bottom end of the market. Various figures mostly pirates of other manufacturers, all marked ‘ABC’ and/or Hong Kong. Similar ranges/figures issued by the other marks mentioned above suggest some sort of (lose?) relationship between them all.

Listing (incomplete)
20mm WWII range (sets)
- Combat (1965, piracies of Kleeware mini-truck and 7 Britains Lilliput)
- Unbreakable Military Police Patrol
40/50mm range (loose)
- 8th Army/Desert Infantry (at least 2 poses, cross-copies of Crescent/Timpo)
- Indians (3+ poses, piracies of Britains ‘Swoppets’)
- Knights (piracies of Britains ‘Swoppets’)
- Renaissance (piracies of Britains Herald ECW)
- US Marines (ex-Britains hollow-cast)
- British Line Infantry (ex-Britains hollow-cast)
Other Items
- Mini Trucks (Kleeware [from Dinky] 1-ton Humber 30kwt truck piracies)

- Cargo Lorries (tinplate/plastic, various bodies/liveries seen including ABC)

Probably ABC (as per the ex-hollow cast items above)
- Kahki Infantry Stading at Attention (ex-Britains Herald)
- Highland Bansmen (ex-Britains Herald)
- Highlanders (ex-Britains Herald)
- Guardsmen (ex-Britains Herald)
- RAF Regiment (ex-Britains hollow-cast)
- [Cowboys]  (ex-Britains swoppets)

Links

Further Reading
Plastic Warrior magazine No. 158