Who Made These?? Vintage Plastic Historic Series (1 Viewer)

[Gideon]

Going to post these to eBay shorty.

and these?

and these?

 

[gi546]

i think the plastics may be Marx, but i'm not sure.
and maybe the metals are old Britians?
i really don't know, i'm just guessing.
check the bottom of the stands, sometimes it says the manufactuer.

 

[Gideon]

Hi Matt, thanks for the input. The green ones I think are Marx but the casting quality is not up that standard.

The revolution figures and silver/gold figures are absolutely no way Marx.

The silver and gold figs have raised type describing what each figure is like British Tommy, Turk, Crusader, etc.

The blue revs have a M on the base and have numbers I can only assume are figure poses. They are really wonderfully sculpted too.

 

[Wraith]

Gideon,

No expert here, but the silver and gold ones look like some of the ones that came with cereal packets and coffee. Only going on memory here, but I think General Custer here on the forum, put a thread together on them some time back.
May be way off mark, but they look similar.

Simon

 

[Scott]

The blue Rev-War ones are MPC. The Hobby Bunker has them. I have seen them back in Bicentennial in 1976

 

[theBaron]

I think Simon's on the right track on the silver and gold ones, I thought the same thing, when I saw the pictures. There was a French coffee called Mocarex that had plastic figures made and offered them in packages of their coffee. I think there were others, too, and also, I think there was a laundry soap maker who did the same thing. I think Custer had or has many of those in his collection.

But I don't know if the English inscriptions indicate some other origins, too. I do think they were premiums, though, that is, I don't think they were sold as individual figures in their own right.

And speaking of the Bicentennial, does anyone remember plastic figures given away by the old Atlantic gas stations back then? And there was also a toy Noah's Ark set. Atlantic then rebranded as Arco (for Atlantic-Richfield), and then eventually, they got bought by someone else, maybe Sunoco.

Sorry, I've digressed, prosit!
Brad

 

[jac28]

I was thinking the silver and gold ones are Mokarex,too.. but I'm not sure. I couldn't find those exact figures anywhere...

Jim

 

[Gideon]

Mokarex!!! That's them. They were well regarde figures and I think they had a hard plastic series which were very finely sculpted.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the info.

Now, what about the green guys?

 

[jac28]

Mokarex!!! That's them. They were well regarde figures and I think they had a hard plastic series which were very finely sculpted.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the info.

Now, what about the green guys?

The green army men are Marx from the Training Centers - looks like to me.. Some of them are what collectors term "camp poses" which are slightly more difficult to come by than the more common poses.

Jim

 

[eborris]

The bottom photo appears to be a mix of Payton and Marx training center figures.