INVICTA Mammoths from British Museum :-)

Since I saw this wonderful figure in Martien`s collection, I really, really wanted it, and, - woe and behold, - it was for sale on Ebay, and I won it

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He is not quite comfortable together with the Schleich cousin, I think he will agree that scales can be of some importance
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But he immediately found a good friend in his relative from Marolin
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I like the material of these two , they have a smooth feeling, almost like a fresh bar of soap

Congratulation!!! You know how many years old? And have the British Museum also animals they are alive?

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Congratulation!!! You know how many years old? And have the British Museum also animals they are alive?

It is marked 1975, but I don`t know how many years it was made
He, he, I think the only living animals in British Museums are the people working and visiting there

Oh! Thanks for sharing "British Museum" Mammoth.

Those are lovely Susanne! You need to keep Marolin in front because he is the one with the eyes!

-Kristie

He's beautiful!

In the 1970's and 80's, we used to go to London once a year, and always bought one or two dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum.

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Here is our Museum Mammoth, with a Papo Mammoth (at the back), Starlux mammoth (on the left) and a Schleich Zebra to show sizes.

We loved our dinosaurs, but always wished that they would make some more of the prehistoric mammals.


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CONGRATULATION Susanne

This mammoth was made by INVICTA which prooduced a very fine line of dinosaurs for the British Museum.

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The only other mammals were a glyptodon and a blue whale.

I've got the Blue whale

Thankyou Ken

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Those are lovely Susanne! You need to keep Marolin in front because he is the one with the eyes!

-Kristie

Thankyou, Kristie , - yes, you are right...perhaps he needs glasses

Ohhh, Sue & Leslie, - you have the Starlux Mammoth

You are so full of wonderful surprises, always some fabulous models !
Ohh, perhaps you would show us ( me ) your collection of the dinoes you bought at British Museum ?
Were they all INVICTA ?

Yes, thankyou, Christophe, I had forgotten the brand name, - INVICTA, invicta, invicta, invicta Perhaps I can remember it now

And thanks for the link, too That whale if beauuutyful

Yes, Susanne, our dinosaurs are all Invicta. We liked the modelling and the colours. We used them for displays in the local Children's Library.

Tomorrow, we will take some pics of them for you.

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

He is wonderful, Susanne!
Well, I don't know why I'm commenting? Susanne will spend next days searching crazily for a blue whale! I hope you find some time to be back to the forum!

WOW! Thanks, S & L If you have time

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He is wonderful, Susanne!
Well, I don't know why I'm commenting? Susanne will spend next days searching crazily for a blue whale! I hope you find some time to be back to the forum!

Don`t worry, I am not that easy to get rid off
I am happy you like my old mammoth

I agree with Roger, he is wonderful I love Mammoths, although I don't collect figurines of them, they were such incredible creatures it must have been awesome to see one in real life, all that fur swaying as he walked.

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At last I found the painted mammuth from the series of british Museum
Isn`t it amazing how differnet the two are, even if they are the same mould

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I couldn`t resist getting these great guys, - from the same seller, to save on shipping cost, you know
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They seem not to be made from Invicta, but they are from British Museums`s serie

Congrats! The mammoth is very cool looking

Saving on shipping costs by adding some extra weight with a couple of huge dinosaurs is always a good idea
Congrats on your nice additions!

Thankyou both

Yes, cool is a good description
Cool, old guys, -they are marked 1973, but of course they can be made much later

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Saving on shipping costs by adding some extra weight with a couple of huge dinosaurs is always a good idea
Congrats on your nice additions!

Hush! Don`t tell anybody

Very very cool!!! Big congratulations Susanne!!

Congrats Susanne! I really like the differences in the mammoths! It would be hard to pick a favorite!

-Kristie

True variations! I really like this old mammoth! :)
Invicta is a very popular brand among dino collectors! :)

Great looking additions.
Yes it is always important to save on shipping when you can

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Your dinos are INVICTA Susanne

Thankyou for your help, link and comments, dear friends

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Great looking additions.
Yes it is always important to save on shipping when you can

Great prehistoric newcomer Congratulations Susanne

He's so cute! He has big kind eyes congrats Susanne

Thankyou, Ana and Harriet

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He's so cute! He has big kind eyes congrats Susanne

Yes, he looks sort of innocent, doesn`t he

Great and characterfull models Susanne!
I saw these dino's in a tread from andreas to, marked with a name of a museum indeed...

Now, I also love this lovely model

It is a great idea

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It is a great idea  

This is was one of the first mammoth models I ever purchased and it remains my favourite.  I think it is the most accurately sculpted model of this species available.
It was sculpted by John Holmes in 1975 for Invicta, and is based on a model held at the London Museum of Natural History.  The original being sculpted by the resident model maker at the time, Arthur Hayward.

Arthur Hayward, London Museum of Natural History.
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Very interresting post Andrew

Looking a the other proboscidian model, it is too bad they never made a toy with this one too

Wow, that`s great !
Thank you for showing these photos :)

Wow

Thanks for posting this video, Elephas! It's really interesting!

Yeah, it was pleasure to wach this video. Thank you :)

Andrew, you always find very interesting information and we are lucky that you share it with us. Again something to revisit.

This is wonderful information

It is so great to know the background of our lovely models !

Thankyou very much for info, pictures and video

A great video and another "educational" post. Thank you Andrew

If I may , What scale is the British Museum Brown Mammoth ?

I don't know the scale, but he is 6,8 cm from table to the top of his head ( 2,8 inches)

Thank You Susan !

It is 1:45th scale

Thank you Mr. Maximus !

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And here is my unpainted version of the Invicta Glyptodon. I noticed it was missing on TAI.

Just added it Valerie, 5th of its kind on TAi, contrarily to amargasaurus it cannot yet rest in peace, I learned with you that the limit is 8.

Glad to help! But the Glyptodon can console itself on one point: there are other animals who are so unfortunate no toy has been produced representing them...