transitional – lead to plastic – Cherilea farm animals, approx 54mm scale, Comprising: scarce pair of Goats, moulded in white plastic and both painted matching terracotta-brown, unmarked – Overall in Excellent lightly used condition with only minor wear and paint loss – note: amongst the earliest Cherilea plastic models and derived from the hollow-cast lead mould, albeit slightly modified, as were a number of the transitional plastic animals.
[this model was previously dismissed as a Hong Kong copy but a chance examination of an illustration of a Cherilea trade box confirms it as an early transitional Cherilea farm animal and omitted from a recent article Barney wrote for PW magazine]
