Reader’s Question PW Memories Plastic Figure Showcase Part 4 Clayton Bonelli has a question on figure company if anyone has information. Next I will start a new section called PW Memories. We will then showcase some figures from my collection.
Reader’s Question PW Memories Plastic Figure Showcase Part 4 Mystery Company
Clayton Bonelli uncovered this mystery company Ulgastrin Paladin. He saw this figure on another site and contacted the person who was selling it.
The seller had no idea where the figures was made. I did a tenative search and found several other figures under the name but no additional information. Do you have any idea on Ulgastrin Paladin andwhere they are from?
Reader’s Question PW Memories Plastic Figure Showcase Part 4 PW Memory One
Over next few months I am going to share with you various memories of Plastic Warrior Show. In coming weeks we will see a photo of me at the first Plastic Warrior show. Right now I am going to share a photo of a figure that I got at the show.
This figure was done by George Wiegand. George was one of the many nice people we met over the years at PW. He did conversions which I got two from him. This one is of a black Union soldier carrying a wounded Confederate. We liked his work and sadly he left us too soon.
Reader’s Question PW Memories Plastic Figure Showcase Part 4 Plastic Figure Showcase
Here we have one my favorite figures with a similar figure from Europe. I do not recognize the maker off hand. Do you?
This is the Cherilea executioner from the same set. It usually is misidentifed in the knights. I remember at a Plastic Warrior show having this one shelf for a high price. While on the next shelf below were Marx 1812 sailors for a reasonable price.
I had an interesting experience last night. I was going through old photos for a project and I found a bag of figures which for some reason had not be stored away. One of the items I found were these pirates. I have no idea who made them. they feel soft plastic not resin.
Horse and base look a lot like German Jean Hoffler who made figures for other companies such as Nigrin Shoe Polish premiums.
They are cloned of Jean Hoefler ,both Indian and horse.The distributor company also copied the knights,astronauts and animals from JH.I have three knights
THERE is a debate if were license rights to produce under this brand or simple copied direct.
Another copiers of JH was French brand Ecoiffier.
Plus a third copier that sold variation of JH astronauts poses
Both brands are common loose sold in lots or bags paks still.
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The pioneer is unique .Even direct base in Marx is a complete different designed pose of younger man w not same clothing,very rare to me.Intersting pose in 54 mm.I will love find one.
The executioner is interesting.look more a king or high ranking noble w double handed sword than a executioner that never used such heavy ornate armor.
The full set always goes for crazy price.
My thoughts
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The pioneer is Davy Crockett by Cherilea, it is part of a set of three and was originally made in hollowcast lead so predates the Marx figure.
The knight with large sword isn’t the executioner but also wasn’t part of the knights set, it was a stand alone figure and is usually referred to as a prince, it is quite hard to find. The Cherilea execution set is based on a later period, roughly Elizabethan and is very rare, the executioner figure has an axe.
I think the mounted indian was made by Jean Hoefler and branded for a pharmaceutical company rather than being a copy, Hoefler did this quite a lot, like Crescent making figures for Kellogs.
I remember George Weygand fondly, he was a great guy and a gifted modeller, he brought out his own range of metal figures under the name Maros.
Interesting on the Cherilea figure, the person had it with Executioner set so that it why I made the mistake. I am sure it is is hard to find in UK, but it possible to turn up here and someone think it is just another knight.
Yes it is hard to find in the UK it only ever came in the early large boxed sets
Brian I think that the “Prince” did come as a loose figure at some time. When I got my best ever Christmas present of the Clearware castle, my Mum included a bunch of Knights to go with it. Amongst them were about 12 Cherilea knights and this included 2 of the Prince figures. I am fairly sure they were not boxed, but as this was nearly sixty years ago (OMG!!!) I can not be 100% certain.
Intersting about pioneer.
So appear that Marx copied from it then.
Very deep detail for been from a hollowcast mold figure.Never see so much detail in an old pre 1950 figure and by Cherilea.
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The Cherilea hollowcast figures and some of the early plastic sets were very well sculpted not like the later larger ones with weird anatomical poses. English hollowcast figures were usually well engraved but the detail is obscured by the thick lead based paint they used to use, if you strip the paint off you’ll be surprised at how good they are.
One funny thing in regards to the Cherilea Executioner. When I googled it and went to their pictures a photo of Paul Morehead and me showed up in the top of the list.LOL
google only had an incomplete set showing. Sometime I wwill explain how articles get done for my site.
I need the Crockett figure for my collection of Davy Crockett figures if anyone has one for sale.
The Black Union Soldier carrying the Confederate looks like the scene from “Shenandoah” when the freed slave neighbor of the Andersons carries the wounded “Boy” from the battlefield.
WOW! !.good cath scene.
Is true looks as that.
There other film alike scene copied as well.I forgot name now.
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The pirate looks as one of 20 poses of Zizzle series made in 2007.I have 12 poses only.
Unless is a conversion made up too.Lol
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No it is not Zizzle as I have a few of them myself.
That what I tjough as u may noticed the marks bellow.
I’m.looking x all poses.
Si far only 12 but I understand are 20 poses in Zizzle
The pirates are resin cake decorations, vaguely based on Johnny Depp, that I sent to Paul a few years ago. There is also a figure sitting on a barrel and one standing holding a cutlass down.
They were imported from China by a firm called Elgate who specialist in resin figures and gifts aimed at the souvenir market
I love how I am finding figures you either made or found for me. That is problem when you have a wide diverrrsity of fgures like I do. If you do not do records you forget where they came from and who made them. Some figures will stand out because they have a special remembrance like George’s figure.
The problem I do not have time to do the records. LOL
Great figures Paul ! The two men civil war pair looks realistically posed! Seems George Wiegand had a good eye for posing his figures ! I Googled Ulgastrin Paladin and the country Brasil came up a lot ?
Yes he did. the other figure I have from him is great too.