Robin Hood Times Two showcases two of the Robin Hood figures set mention in the article Many Faces of Robin Hood Lone Star and Res Plastic. I pull examples from my collection from these two companies for you to see and compare. I am sorry if I do not have complete sets of the figures on display as the collection is a jumble and I have not gotten time to work on it.
Robin Hood Times Two Lone Star
I will start with the older of two Robin Hood set, the one by Lone Star. In the first photo we have Robin Hood with his hat on the ground firing his bow. The other figure is a Merryman advancing with his sword. I like that pose.
Here we have merry man with a long staff or quarterstaff The quarterstaff figured prominently in many tales of Robin Hood. The other figure is merry man with longbow. Another popular weapon of the common man.
The third photo show one of the sheriff’s men and the Sheriff of Nottingham. I think the Lone Star sheriff of Nottingham is one of the poor poses as it has him with an arrow in him. I wonder how many boy removed the arrow. I got this figure years ago just for the pose of the arrow. I think I got my from George Kearton an early English dealer in plastic figures. I believe had 50 of them at the time.
Robin Hood Times Two Res Plastic
Here have the Sheriff of Nottingham with some of his men that were done by Res Plastic
In this photo we have a merry man, Friar Tuck and Robin Hood. Friar tuck is advancing with a club. robin Hood for a change is with sword so he can do battle with the sheriff. I like the position of the arm better than the Marx 54mm Robin Hood.
Update
Erwin Has sent more photos of the Lone Star and Res Plastic figures. He has also send some other companies.
Lone Star Robin Hood and Sheriff’s men, Robin Hood, merry men and sheriff have been repainted.
Res Plastic Sheriff’s men and Robin Hood and men. Not you have maid Marian with a long bow.
Ken Toys Robin Hood figures
Cherilea Robin Hood figures
Polish PZN Robin Hood Figures
Crescent Robin Hood Figures
Interesting Little John with Scythe
Maid Marian this figure could be also used as a peasant woman. this set was done by Lud Rev
As far I know yes cherilea ,PZN and are the hardest ,I had been years after them, above picture show only 5 poses of Cherilea ,missing so far two, one a nice crossbowman with heavy crossbow loading it, the other is the Friar.
I can not confirm if more poses were done as far my research goes and as adimn point out the Crescent(robin) looks almost identical to Chelrilea. Only distinguish by the base.
I do not know who did first.
There is mystery solved that I red of supposed Charben made Robin and ended be molded in metal by Crescent before ,later some one run the single pose as Charben or miss interpret as Charben, but was not made by it.There Crescent/mold in question rare pose is not same as above please.
Erwin, there is in fact one more pose in the Cherilea set. It is another Maid Marion, but this one is dressed in a similar fashion to the Robin Hood figure and is also firing a bow. I acquired the figure some years ago in a job lot and took it to the Plastic Warrior show where it caused quite a stir. My one is slightly damaged missing part of the bow. As far as I know only one other collector has since found this figure and this has far more damage than my example. The Plastic Warrior crew took photographs of the elusive Marion and published a picture of her in their publication. (Sorry can’t remember the issue number). Hope this is useful.
John
I remember that figure I tried to take photo of it at the time but the camera had did not have quality for close-ups
John,thank you so much
I had seen 7 poses only.But are extremely hard to find.So yours described will made 8 right?
I understand they were from a former metal mould,if that the case I saw no long ago a sherif men type pose but in metal as cherliea.
Do you know if was done in plastic too.
I can try get a picture
He has an spear across his waist and advancing forward.
Best
Erwin I believe the figure you describe is in fact a Cherilea Saracen. These were also produced from lead moulds although only 2 of the original lead poses were produced in plastic. The one you describe, (with lance across his waist advancing) and slashing with sword drawn back across his body. The Cherilea Saracens and Robin Hood figures do turn up on E Bay over here and sell quite reasonably. Be careful, as many are not complete as old Cherilea figures have become extremely brittle.
Thank you.John for update.
You sure know all about.WOW! 🙂 🙂
I will pas a pic any how to admin so he pass to u and tell me.
Yes your are correct.One of my two first figures fell and snap from base at ankle almost same effect as timpo Cossacks.
I was able to glue back fortunately but now I’m extremely careful.
Buying then far is a risk I agree.
Thanks a lot.
Best
Will love to see a picture of her as will be the first w bow in action.
Great discovering and rare figure that wil be.
John
This EBAY link has the pose in metal from Cherilea I was talking about. I had seen it often but I do not know if was ever done in plastic or not.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291771478366?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Yes it was done in plastic and is a Saracen. Why the seller is describing him as Sir Loxley I have no idea. They may have given him different paint jobs in lead and sold the same figure for different eras. Perhaps the lead guys can throw more light on the subject. If you look at this sellers other items he has more ‘Sir Loxley’ figures. One of them (with the sword) is the other Saracen that was produced in plastic.
I agree with Jim, the seller seems to be on a Loxley kick.
Thank you Johns.I appreciate.
I just want to confirm.
Yes I notice sellers call every body same.I had see it innother sellers.
Funny.
Im trying get both in plastic.Always see in metal.
Great to know are saracen too as they look rare but nice poses.
The Lone Star figures have some imaginative poses and detail is pretty good.
Crescent are probably the best in this grouping. I also like the Crescent archer(not Robin Hood + Merry Men). Is Crescent available in recast?
I have the Res figures. The Res Sherrif’s Men the best. Some Merry Men look Peter Pan-ish.
TOM as far I know not Crescent company set had been reissue but are not that hard to get as well lone star on vintage condition if willing to paid their value,loose poses are the best bet, full set are expensive.
Ken toys were copied in DDR in about same scale in some varied poses.
Ludorev that were ex JEM from France just reissue in late 90’s were sold till early 2003/2004!? ,then gone ;they did a plastic different castle with full set of different knights and a Viking ship too as well the Robin hood playset above. I manage got all three playset .I wish I could bought more as are nice unique poses.
RES are more common from Argentina reissues mold bough from Italy in 90’s and I agree much nicer than Dulcop ,just that Marian looks a bit modern I guess!!-too bad she was not portray using the bow.
Great collection you have there, Erwin.
Nice to see rare figures !
What an impressive collection of European Robin Hood sets!
That is one big arrow in the Sheriff, longer than his sword. Pretty cool though seeing those figures.
LOL!! Leave it to you!! How do you know it’s not a stray javelin from games on the other side of the woods?
Sorry, I’m observant. Never saw a javelin with feathers, of course I’m sure someone will post a picture of one or that super long arrows were in fashion at that point in time. That was just a casual observation as it stuck me as unusual. Maybe he got shot with a Roman Scorpion or some sort of Ballista. More than likely though someone just made an arrow too long.
Maybe shot by a larger scale figure – Marx 6″ figure?
No to be doing corrections but the length of arrow do not appear to be extreme in my opinion and base in historical fact.
I will post this but you can google x your self.
◾The Welsh were the first people in Britain to have and use longbows
◾Every Medieval Longbow was made to measure
◾The length of the longbow therefore ranged considerably in size from 6 – 7 feet in length
◾The majority of Longbows were made from yew but ash, hazel and elm were also used
◾The bow stave was shaped into a D-section from a half cross section of a tree or branch
◾The wood of the longbow was protected with a rub of “wax, resin, and fine tallow”
◾A skilled longbowman could release between 10 – 12 arrows per minute
◾The longbow could also pierce the armor of a knight at ranges of more than 250 yards
◾The string of the longbow was made from hemp as it was the strongest and least elastic fibre available. The string was then soaked in glue as some protection against moisture
◾The weapon was particularly effective against opponents wearing plate armour
◾Type or group of weapons – Ranged Weapon which caused a projectile to leave the soldier and strike a target
◾Long Bodkin were point arrows were used for piercing mail
◾Arrows called Short bodkins were used for piercing armour plate-Lenght(30-34″) long
◾Arrows called swallowtails were used to bring down horses-length-(36-46″) long
See, I told you. They must have been shooting at the horse that one looks to be about 5 feet long.
By looking at normal human body waist measure of around 44-46″ diameter=”LARGE” SIZE PANTS-BELT SIZE IN US=half 22 front”,the arrow show what appear to be body front(22″) PLUS half in length which would be about 32/34″ max. Not 5 foot at all!!.
Well within historical size range and those at museums well conserved .
Welsh ENGLISH LONG BOW do not shoot American minion India arrows.
Still the largest arrow x bows were the one made by Japanese and still plenty pictures in museums. Only different were light for extreme fast short release and not long range ,also lack stopping power as English heavier arrows
Water is wet, no matter what the state. There disprove that.
How are you defining “WET”?
Water at minus 100 degrees celsius is not wet. Love the figures in any state! Take me back to my Richard Greene days!
What is it then?
is considered vapor state=gas ,still could be also considered a mix
Whatever Erwin, you are obviously the smartest person in the world and everyone else is just plain too dumb to talk to you.
I the picture the figure measures approx 1 1/2″ tall from his foot to the top of his head, the arrow is 1″ long in the picture and some of it an unknown length is stuck inside him.
That’s it, don’t talk to me anymore, please.
Ed and Erwin
You are both getting carried away on this. As to the Lone Star Sheriff of Nottingham with the big arrow you have to realize it is artist interpretation. He or the owner want the figure to be shot by an arrow. The way he did it was too make a big arrow which would not be historically correct. We can look at so many figures today that are not correct. Back then we may thought it neat.
In a back issue of PFPC, Tom Terry had a ” Robin Hood” issue. he described that figure as being shot with a bolt from a ballista type weapon, not an arrow from a bow. I have that issue, I can find it and post the exact quote. I believe he called it very “unusual”.I’ll say!
Not to mention that Dulcop also made a range of Robin Hood figures and Merry Men with a very unusual pose of Maid Marion riding sidesaddle!
Mike, did you and Ed end up going to the Texas Show last week?
I’m not Mike, but no.
Well, unless you and Mike are boycotting the new Chicago Show this year, Bill Skinner and I will be greeting you there. I just made reservations last week for 3 nights — Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with an early Thursday morning arrival planned. We may have to use your room as our meet-up point this year for Gary Kaupert when he comes in from St. Louis.
I use to think coming in on Friday morning was sufficient, but last year I missed out on Stengel’s limited editions, as well as Steve Weston’s limited numbers of Engineer Bassovich products. I was in both rooms by 9:30 AM Friday morning, and they were both already sold out of what I wanted.
Of course, before we get to OTSN (the old name for Roger’s new show), we have Joe Saine’s Michigan Auction and Show at the very end of July. We might get to see Rick Eber, Bill Murphy, and John Stengel there, nearly 2 months before Chicago commences.
Like Paul Gruendler, I plan on picking up TSSD’s new Vietnam Playset there. If we run into Mr. Gruendler there, my roommate Bill Skinner is planning on giving him a slap up the side of the head, which is the only thing he says Gruendler ever seems to understand. They (Gruendler & Skinner) are both originally from Indiana, and go way back over the last 32 years of OTSNs.
Hopefully, Gary will be able to get his hands on Stengel’s original Vietnam U.S. Marines, if he hasn’t gotton them yet. Gary, I specifically told Mr. Stengel you were getting anxious.
No, we’ll be at OTSN, probably starting on Wednesday. We hope to have a new location this year, closer to murderers row. We should get a lot of traffic this year. We should have plenty of things to interest everyone we hope, with the noted exception being the metal guys. Most of the excitement actually happens before the show and the show itself is anti-climatic. So, vote early and vote often it’s a Chicago tradition.
For toy soldiers, nothing beats Chicagoland in September. I feel lucky that I’m only five and a half hours away from the actual show, which can still be a killer of a drive, especially on the return trip, when the excitement is all over, and you just want to get home. In the early years I often flew into O’Hare, but now I always drive.
I always drive too, because the airport is farther than the show.
I use to fly in, but the air fare has gotten crazy and then to rent a car, Chicago has one of the highest rates in the country. Driving is two day affair each way.
That’s why I didn’t do Texas this year, $400.00 round trip is too much, then shipping my stuff there and back plus hotel we’re talking $1.000.00 including food and drink if not more.
I missed a whole lot here! LoL! Well, I see that I have a headless Maid Marian by Crescent in my junk box. Anybody have a suitable head I could put on her. She’s only about 40. I guess she’d be somewhat taller if she had her coconut fastened. Anyhow, if anybody has some piece or can tell me where I might get a head for her, I’d appreciate it.