Stad’s Interesting Plastic Items we are back looking at items from my collection. First, we have some interesting Marx figures. Next, we will look at Timpo and a couple of licensed figures did.
Stad’s Interesting Plastic Items Marx
As most Marx collectors know Marx did a number figures of Dwight Eisenhower. They were great friends. What is little know is Marx did a figure of Adlai Stevenson, Eisenhower’s rival in 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. Aldai had been the governor of Illinois during the 1952 election. Later he would be Ambassador to UN.
Marx did a number of candidate figures for the 1968 presidential campaign.
Marx did a Captain Kidd pedestal figure. I never found how and if he was sold. I got a batch of them in the load of Marx items I bought. At the East Coast Toy Soldier Show, Francis Turner had a prototype Captain Kidd and the Pirates card. This card had the Captain Kidd figure, pirates, and Marx RevolutionaryWar
I may have shown him before, but I enjoy showing him again. I saw George Reeves, who played him on television at Hess’s Department Store. So when I discover he existed and got my figure from John Bowers (one people who bought the Marx Warehouse.) This figure is typical of 50’s era Superman. I was able to get later reissues of the Superman figure for my friend Peter Evans.
Stad’s Interesting Plastic Items Timpo
Timpo did a few licensed items in plastic. They did a How the West Was Won set which was basically old items with new artwork. Timpo also did Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Done by Gerry Anderson, the show revolved around a conflict with Earth and Mars. Timpo did a series of figures for the show all in the same pose! The only difference is the color of the vest, hat, and boots. Here we have Lieutenant Green.
Timpo did several licensed figures in metal. One was the Adventures of Quentin Durward. This was a movie that was filmed in England with Robert Taylor. At a Plastic Warrior show, two people from Belgium brought some old store stock. Laurie and I purchased two them and sold one. Since then Peter Evans has done a resin copy of it, which I have.
I used this figure with a Germania female figure for a cover of a short story I e published called Taqgrin and Isobel.
At OTSN a few years back, Francis Turner had the Marx Adlai Stevenson figure in his room.
Since I had just acquired a book about Adlai Stevenson, I thought it would be nice to have the Marx figure to go along with it.
Since Francis Turner is one of those show dealers who doesn’t mark his prices on anything, I was forced to ask him how much he wanted for it. something I usually don’t enjoy doing.
Francis quoted $50.00. For two brief seconds, I was actually considering it. Then I recovered my senses, and decided, not being independently wealthy, I would be crazy to pay that much money for a little piece of plastic, and decided to pass on it.
Considering the relative scarcity of the figure, the price Francis wanted probably wasn’t too out of line, if I was an elite collector like Jim McGough or someone like that.
So I didn’t get the figure, and actually haven’t seen another one to this day.
I meant to add, Paul, that you can therefore count yourself lucky you’ve got that particular Marx figure in your personal collection.
Wow .. the Quentin Durward looks very cool ..
Detlef