Susannes lead models ;-)

Recently I got some old lead sheep for a friend ( guess who ), and , Ooops! I could not help seeing the other lead models from that seller !

Long story short, - today a wonderful parcel arrived from England
I do not know much about them, and would be very happy for any information !!!!

Westie proudly presents all seven
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According to the seller, they are almost all about 80 years old, and they have been played with. It shows, bu look, aren`t they wonderful ?

Look at this little bison ! He is not marked, but is supposed to be from Taylor and Barrett :
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Here the three charming, old doggies :
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Sct Bernard :
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Bernard is the only dog who is marked :
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This elegant Great Dane is fortunately from before the nasty habit of cutting their ears off
He is from "Timbo", I think
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Beautyfully scuptured Cocker spaniel, sold as " Timbo-like"
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Pixyland Kew kangaroo
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Unfortunately some child has tried to paint white on him...but I don`t care
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I love this critter`s face
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Last, not least, two fantastic kitties, from "Johillco"(?)
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The lion has a brand mark on the side of his belly :
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Teach me, Tiger
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This lovely critter has been mine for some weeks, but I am adding a picture to complete "my collection" of lead models...Waterbuck from Britains
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I don`t collect lead models ! I don`t collect lead models, I.......

Oh, those are so cool! Poor kanga, she looks like she's taken one punch too many.

The no-respect-for-history customizer in me thinks how awesome it would be to see them restored or even repainted properly to show off all that detail...
(Just as well I'm afraid of lead, really, or I could really do some damage. )

Very nice old oldies Susanne (o)): (o)): (o)): (o)): (o)): (o)): Big congratulations for this find

Susanne wrote:

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I don`t collect lead models ! I don`t collect lead models,..

Susanne, are you sure about not collecting them ?....Hm, they are so very nice! I think, you can cross the "don´t" in your sentence!


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Thankyou very much, Friends
No, No, Yvette, I really don`t, I REALLY...

Sumo wrote:

Oh, those are so cool! Poor kanga, she looks like she's taken one punch too many.

The no-respect-for-history customizer in me thinks how awesome it would be to see them restored or even repainted properly to show off all that detail...
(Just as well I'm afraid of lead, really, or I could really do some damage. )

Susanne, congrats for your magic newcomers, they are really awesome Kangoo looks like drunk or so I love especially lion and tiger, lovely creatures

oooo! they are wonderful! i love the bison and the kangaroo is hilarious. He is definitely a front runner in the Most Confused Ever competition!

Hey, would a little Britains collie like to stay in Denmark with some other lead doggies? he would of course be welcome in Calif, but after a very long time of chasing sheep, he might like to take it easy play with his new doggie friends.

Great additions Susanne! You are very lucky. I love the bison! The "waterbuck" looks more like an eland to me.

Thankyou for all the kind words

Mastiffcat wrote:

Hey, would a little Britains collie like to stay in Denmark with some other lead doggies? he would of course be welcome in Calif, but after a very long time of chasing sheep, he might like to take it easy play with his new doggie friends.

Too late He insisted to look after his flock, when they left for California

Wow! They are so old and precious! :)

I think that lead figures are those that give us a feeling of antiquity. Actually it is true once they are very old. I only have a camel from Britains.
I like them all, specially the Britains eland antelope!

The white paint on your lead kangaroo wasn't later vandalism, but was typical Pixyland/Kew factory painting for this model.

Of course it might have been done by a kid, but the kid in question would have been the child of a P/K home painting out-worker. They didn't observe child labour and health and safety laws in the back streets of the poorer parts of London in the 1930s, and the pay was so low that I'm sure loads of kids were made to help out.

DaveScriv wrote:

The white paint on your lead kangaroo wasn't later vandalism, but was typical Pixyland/Kew factory painting for this model.

Of course it might have been done by a kid, but the kid in question would have been the child of a P/K home painting out-worker. They didn't observe child labour and health and safety laws in the back streets of the poorer parts of London in the 1930s, and the pay was so low that I'm sure loads of kids were made to help out.

Thankyou very, very much, Dave    

And the waterbuck from Britains is indeed an eland      

SUSANNE wrote:

Recently I got some old lead sheep for a friend ( guess who ), and , Ooops! I could not help seeing the other lead models from that seller !

Long story short, - today a wonderful parcel arrived from England  
I do not know much about them, and would be very happy for any information !!!!

Sct Bernard :
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Bernard is the only dog who is marked :
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This elegant Great Dane is fortunately from before the nasty habit of cutting their ears off  
He is from "Timbo", I think
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I don`t collect lead models ! I don`t collect lead models, I.......      

These two dogs you have here Susanne are ‘Timpo’. Timpo is short for Toy Importers and they operared from 1945 to 1978. The dogs are from the 1950’s are were part of their ‘My Pets’ range. The St. Bernard was number 5004 and the Great Dane was number 5000. All dogs were issued in a box. BTW Timpo also had a West Highland terrier in their range as number 5012. This number was also allocated to a Scottish Terrier.

Hope all this helps.  

Thankyou very much, Christoph and Chris   

I suspect the big brown Spaniel was made in Germany by George Heyde of Dresden, who made a lot of large scale nick-nack figures, intended as ornaments rather than toys, and were often fixed to ashtrays or blocks of marble or other stone.

This becomes more and more exiting    

My (probably) Heyde large scale dogs:

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I'll eventually get round to doing a thread about Heyde and other vintage German made lead figures, which don't seem to be mentioned at all in the vintage German section. Not all vintage figures made in Germany were composition.

Re: Susannes lead models ;-)

First - if the metal animals are hard to the touch, then they aren't made of lead.  Lead would have been badly damaged after 80 yrs of playing!  Here's some info on old metal toys: http://www.antique-antiques.com/antiquemetaltoys.shtml

Many of the oldest metal Britains LTD pieces didn't have their name of it; just "Made in England".

Here's info on Johillco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hill_%26_Company

Thankyou for the info and interesting links

Funny thing is that I never thought they were lead, but that it is what they are called...sort of like we talk about "rubber boots", even if they are made of plastic

Still, this makes me think of "the little tin soldier", - tin soldiers were mainly made from an alloy of tin and lead