Here is an interesting figure I found over the weekend. It is East Germany made rubber figure of an Indian chief doing the eagle dance. The figure has been painted in the style of the Elastolin composition. I know of two other Indian dancers with feathers that were made Crescent and Fontanni. Do you know of any others?
Two Spaniard companies did then too, will come back with correct name as later other European companies did copied the Spaniards firm too.
Confirmed, so far,Reamsa indian figure #21 of first series Indian set was one, later copied by BUM.
Other copied by comansi was either original from LAFREDO or CAMYGET.
Erwin
Thanks for the update
Poland :
http://toysoldiers.spb.ru/toysoldiers/Poland/pol-indians01.jpg
Guilbert (France) :
http://toysoldiers.spb.ru/toysoldiers/Starlux/guilbert-indians2.jpg
Jim (France) :
http://toysoldiers.spb.ru/toysoldiers/Starlux/jim-indians1.jpg
Denitz
Great additions to the question on poses. I have never seen any of the three.
denitz .Thank you a lot for info;what is the name of company from Poland please if know.
I had seen it often(not Indian) other figures and in fact own many knights and Napoleonic but not name at all (material either rubber hard type or soft plastic) rectangular base.
by the way these poses look more realistic as the figure is in sideway balance more dancing I guess!!
Polish figures was released not by company, but by PZG (Polski Związek Głuchych) – Polish Association of the Deaf.
Polish state provided the Deaf employment in manufacturing simple toys.
WOW;interesting I do have a lot of DDR soldiers, most cowboys and Indians from 70′ and early 80’s they did a lot poses and set,I remember seen the with train expo at DDR world toy/CAME fairs .But never seen polish figures. Till I start seen some at eBay much later.
Thank you!! Denitz
The Ideal vinyl carryall western fort included a 45 mm figure that had an Indian in a similar pose. It also had scaled down Timpo CSA cavalrymen copies.
I’m thinking that Heralds or Britains also did a similar pose, but that may have been Lone Star or Crescent. I have seen all different versions of the 45 mm painted Indians that appear to be copies of each other. I’ve no idea who was first.
The ideal 45 mm are copies/cloned of Crescent original figures release by HK firm distributed by IDEAL.
Cresent is one of the maker mentioned in original picture tile comment from admin too.
OK. It’s Fort Cheyenne (couldn’t remember it) and Kent has a picture of the pose on his site.
I believe Crescent did a similar Indian dancing with wings, he was factory painted and someone else did an unpainted version. I remember buying a package of them in the Wisconsin Dells, it also contained the pose of the Indians running with a Torch and the one running with tomahawk and shield copied by Giant among others. Or maybe Crescent copied him from someone else.