Leksaker. Elastolin

[Lars F]

Klart för utspisning!


"Livskvadronens koktross förbereder utspisning i bivacken vid Tärnet, Hanken, Karlsborg under sommarmarschen 1929. Furir 29/1 Göransson övervakar".

[Kim von Platen]

Auf wiedersehen...

Hallå kamrater,
Mätta och glada, och med Betrha i bagaget lämnar vi artilleristerna, efter välförtjänt befordran.
Hur vet att man figurerna tillhör artillerie? Jo på den RÖDA signalfärgen.
Snubben till höger, med dolken, är väl general?
So long....

[Kim von Platen]

Hästar, det gillar tjejer...

Hallå, vad sägs om kavallerie? Själv är jag livrädd för kusar. Men med Bertha i sällskapet kan vi avancera. Börjar med en väldigt ovanlig figur som för tanken till England, Staffordshirefigurer 1850-talet. En beriden general som sitter fast i sadeln.
0/75/14T. Haubtmann.
Ej avtagbar ryttare. 1935-36.
(No 51)
Vem den andre är vet ni nog inte, men preussare är han. Och general. Det skiljer bara ca 100 år i åldern. So long...

[Kim von Platen]

Mannen som kunde svänga kappan efter vinden...

Hallå alla tystlåtna,
Leksaker är ett kul sätt att läsa på lite världshistoria. Så nu kommer rikskanslern till häst. Ty det var som så att före Tredje Riket framställde Hausser fem personligheter, nämligen Fredrik den Store, Ziethern, Seydlitz och Hindenburg, samtliga till häst. Dessutom Hindenburg stående i uniform och civilklädd samt Washington till häst. Allt som allt åtta figurer. Det här är en av dem.
Så har vi två som samtidigt tränade på att rida., 00/29/402 SA-Sturmfürer till häst, brunskjorta och keps. Före 1935 och 00/30/402 Reitersturmfürer till häst, svart uniform. Före 1934. Båda Elastolin.
So long....

[Kim von Platen]

Hallå,
Det var naturligtvis Hindenburg, sist i raden jag menade. Här i samspråk med Ludendorff (figuren 650/2 (No 3) Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) förste generalkvarters-mästare, i grå långrock och släng-kappa. Hindenburgs stabschef på östfronten. Under 1:a världskriget.) Efter 1936.

... so long...

[Lars F]

Hallå alla tystlåtna,
... Leksaker är ett kul sätt att läsa på lite världshistoria. Så har vi två som samtidigt tränade på att rida., 00/29/402 SA-Sturmfürer till häst, brunskjorta och keps. Före 1935 och 00/30/402 Reitersturmfürer till häst, svart uniform. Före 1934. Båda Elastolin.
So long....

Krigare till häst i ”full mundering” ser alltid pampigt ut.

Men brunskjortor och svartdito ligger i lä när hunkpapa- eller siouxindianerna, som de vanligen kallades, kom i full stridsmundering med självaste Sitting Bull i täten kanske.

Gall, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Röda Molnet, Little Crow och Pontiac var några andra kända indianhövdingar



Sitting Bull (1831-1890)

[Kim von Platen]

Ughhh...

Hallå Lasse,
Roligt att se hur en tanke föder en annan. Har alltid gillat indianer och hade väl en avatarbild här en gång i tiden (har den fortfarande på Facebook) med indianpojke. Så nu anbefalles alla tittare att komma med indianfigurer (som jag funderar på att börja samla). I Elastolins tappning finns det minst ett 40-tal från 30-40-talen. Ett gäng från tidigt 30-tal.
PS. Brunskjortor kallades både SA och SS i Hitlers obeväpnade arsenal (båda hade bruna skjortor). Så småningom fick båda uniform, brun för SA och svart för SS. Iallafall i Haussers spegelvärld.
So på...

[Katzl]

Här kommer några indianer!

[Katzl]

Fienden följer hack i häl...

[Kim von Platen]

Mitt i Mello....

Här kommer några indianer!
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Hallå Katzy,
Härligt med en paus. Fina figurer, ja du har nog identifierat dina indianer. Inte senare än 1939, men sannolikt tidigare. Och dom ser ut att ha haft ett bra liv, ovanligt i leksaksvärlden. Grattis och tack för visningen.

Dina blekansikten är betydligt yngre, av sämre kvalitet, gissar på 50-talet. Men roliga att träffa. So long...

[Katzl]

Hallå Katzy,
Härligt med en paus. Fina figurer, ja du har nog identifierat dina indianer. Inte senare än 1939, men sannolikt tidigare. Och dom ser ut att ha haft ett bra liv, ovanligt i leksaksvärlden. Grattis och tack för visningen.

Dina blekansikten är betydligt yngre, av sämre kvalitet, gissar på 50-talet. Men roliga att träffa. So long...

Kul att höra! Jo jag såg nog några bekanta figurer på katalog-bilden..
Intressant och rolig tråd- vilken samling- roligt att få se!

[Kim von Platen]

Hallå,
Nästan alla elastolinfigurer till häst föreställer kusar i skritt men de här två är undantag.

[prylsnubben]

Järnhäst

Hövding Seattle påstår att den undre hästen är en järnhäst, fast
"kanske är det för att jag är en vilde utan förstånd" precis som han.

http://user.tninet.se/~aes747f/seattle.htm

[Kim von Platen]

Dreams...

Hallå Snubben,
Tack. Hoppas många läser indianhövdingens tal för det är någonting av det bästa jag läst. Tänk att färger betyder så mycket. So long...



"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.


It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"


I Have A Dream" speech delivered in 1963 in Washington. Martin Luther King Jr.

[prylsnubben]

Svarta, röda, vita, gula, -alla tillsammans inga är fula.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VqIPuiUlA