Timpo Problems Odds Ends, we will look at an ongoing problem for Timpo collectors fakes. I will share some odds and ends.
Timpo Problems Odds Ends Fakes
Timpo collectors are having a similar problem. The Timpo collectors are looking for rare and unusual colors. There is some reason for that as Timpo did production in New Zealand. From Australia and New Zealand, people are offering, For example, is this cowboy with a rare head. The dealer is asking $45.54 plus nearly $20.00 for shipping!
Another odd Timpo color is the British red beret done in green for the American market. Also, the sitting U.S. Army sitting figure done for the Aurora Beachhead Playset
Because of these examples and others, it has seen a rise of fakes. Some of the fakes are made of resin. Other attempts at fakes including using a felt tip pen to change the color of the German helmet from gray to black. Still, other people have made new plastic pieces using old plastic.
The result is the Timpo collector has to be careful in his buying of unusual or rare. In July of 2017, I reported on a find of white-glove laying firing Confederate and union figures. This caused a big debate among collectors. (the above figure is a resin copy).
Timpo Problems Odds Ends Odds and Ends
I stoped buying tempo figures ,reasons one,they are pretty expensive and the plastic becomes verry brittal . I really do like them. I wish they would have made pirates.
Yup, I have various old Timpos which are virtually too brittle to pick up & look at. I think I read somewhere that they added chalk powder or something else to the plastic as an extender or to flatten the finish, but in the long haul it resulted in brittle plastic.
That was the TIMPO
solid line vintage if not mistaken
I don’t think Timpo swoppets had that issues.
My thoughts
The swivel Arab looks like Lido and Payton figures got together and made babies. I have one as well and it is possible they were made by Thomas Toys who made some swivel figures as well
Yes the swoppet in some production come w bad plastic.
Romans and Vikings swoppets brake arms easy as well legs.
The powder mixing that made figures crumble like bread like the case of Timpo solid cossack issues I think was w the solid line specifically .But I red it long ago and could be wrong.
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I had some old Timpo multi-pose figures I bought for my brothers for Christmas 1975. They gave them back when they “outgrew” them; I held on to them thinking one day to give them back to them when they had children of their own. One day I’m rummaging through my collection and came across them in the sealed container I had stored them in. They all broke off at the intersections of their pieces as well as arms and legs. I was never fond of the swoppets, but my kid brothers liked their colors and I was a bit sad as I thought it would be a neat thing for my nephews to play with some guys their daddies played with.