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Lot 81
A box containing assorted Action Man toys (6 x Pallitoy / Hasbro 1964) and accessories to include motor bike and side car, field radio pack, various guns, hand grenades etc together with a box containing assorted plastic toy animal figurines, various other toys and a box containing various vintage jigsaws and blocks and various tins etc (3 boxes)
Lot 161
Action Man: A collection of four unboxed Action Man figures, mostly good, some dressed, but some detached limbs; together with three unboxed Action Man vehicles, playwear and damage commensurate with age; and a collection of unboxed weapons, accessories and other Action Man clothing. Please assess photographs. (one box)
Lot 53
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE O.B.E. (SCOTTISH 1897-1981) DARK BORDERS LANDSCAPE, 1925 Signed and dated to canvas verso, oil on canvas 63.5cm x 76cm (25in x 30in) If you have had the pleasure of visiting the long-anticipated, newly re-opened Scottish Art wing at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh (re-opened 2023), the first painting you are likely to have set eyes on is the monumental masterpiece ‘A Point in Time’ (1929/37) by William Johnstone. The huge canvas is a formidable sight; with abstract twists of black, blues and greens creating fathomless caverns. It is hung against a bold, blood-red wall immediately facing the entrance. In this phenomenal artwork the curators of the National Galleries found the key visual within the collection to challenge tired perceptions. The re-hang’s opening statement could not be clearer: 20th century Scottish art was seriously accomplished, outward-looking and Modern with a capital ‘M’. This curatorial choice also elevates Johnstone himself emphatically and with purpose; literally centralising his significance within the story of Scottish art – not to say international modernism - as never before. Born in the Borders in 1897 to a farming background, Johnstone, a powerful personality, mixed with other radical thinkers in the Edinburgh College of Art in the 1920s. Alongside the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, Johnstone was pivotal within the conception of the “Scottish Renaissance”. This was a cultural movement spanning art and literature that looked to move away from the perceived stagnancy of the centralised British cultural self-view, advocating instead a modernisation - and independence - of Scottish political and cultural values. Though Johnstone’s origins were immutably tied to the Scottish landscape, his burgeoning career soon took a decisively international direction. In 1925 he was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to study in Paris with André Lhote at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, as well as the Atelier Colarossi. In 1926 he travelled further afield to Spain, Italy and North Africa, accompanied by Max Bernd-Cohen, an American lawyer-turned-artist who become a lifelong friend. His circle of acquaintances in Paris at that time included the artists Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, and the eminent collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1927, Johnstone married the American sculptor Flora MacDonald, spending subsequent years in America and Scotland. They settled in London in the 1930s, with intermittent teaching commitments enabling him to return to America sporadically for the next twenty years. Indeed, it was teaching that became his major life’s work and he was no less innovative within this field than within his art practice. He held the position of Principal at the Camberwell School of Art and Design between 1938 and 1945 and later at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In this capacity he is credited with evolving the ideologies of each school, bringing them more in line with Continental art and design principles akin to the Bauhaus and creating teaching opportunities for exciting young avant-garde artists including Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore, Alan Davie and Eduardo Paolozzi. His services to education within the arts earned him an O.B.E. Sojourns teaching in America included positions as Fulbright Lecturer and Director of the Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre Summer School. He also lectured at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Wisconsin, in 1949 and 1950. Johnstone’s friend and colleague, the artist and theorist Anton Ehrenzweig, identified three stylistic phases in Johnstone’s painting career. Firstly, a surrealist phase of the 1930s, a cubist phase of the 1940s and finally his calligraphic or tachist phase of the 1950s. ‘Dark Borders Landscape’, dated 1925, can be read as a psychological take on the Scottish landscape; a brooding, abstract suggestion of elemental forces, mood and place. His Borders landscapes are often executed in the darkest of tones, as here. Art historian Beth Williamson has suggested a psychological interpretation of the tumultuous dreichness inherent within these early Scottish landscapes; perceiving a troubled relationship with the soil he and his kin sprang from and laboured over so tirelessly, but which offered only the scantest living in return. She also notes the sense of alienation Johnstone felt upon his return to his home farm after having been conscripted in World War I. Despite fortunately never seeing active duty, the distress caused by the exposure to traumatised front-line soldiers, paired with the sense of his own fate hanging perilously in the balance while waiting for the call up, forever changed the young artist. Even as early as the 1920s, Johnstone had developed an innovative and unique paint application that embraced expressive, totally intuitive brushwork. This expressionistic take on abstraction - “dripping” his paint as early as the 1920s - latterly saw his work referred to in the context of American Abstract Expressionism (the so-called “action painters”). Johnstone’s work in fact pre-figures this school of artists and his approach has, as Ehrenzweig indicated, much more in common with the ‘automatic drawing’ techniques of the Parisian Surrealist school in Paris: psychological forces made tangible in paint. The goal of Johnstone’s art practice was to assimilate his interests and fields of influence to totally unique effect, evolving an entirely personal style. His reference points were diverse but always drawn to that which is distilled and instinctual over pre-meditated: from the Pictish carving of his Scottish homeland to the New Mexico school, and from Asian calligraphy to Primitivism and the artwork of children. At the heart of his paintings, whatever the period, you will always find expressive, intuitive mark-making.This creative belief-system was extrapolated to its extreme in the plaster relief series he created in 1970, as an elderly man. In these works, from one of the most celebrated decades of his artistic career, the physical and metaphysical combine to create extraordinary sculptural objects that read as simultaneously ancient and futuristic. “The earth has been a very great creative mother for the artist, the poet, the composer; but the material of the soil can produce its own art. With these thoughts I made my plaster reliefs in order to find confirmation of my conviction that the medium of plaster would itself reveal its own miracle. I knew that in myself I must produce a condition, relaxed and free from thought or deliberation; that which would be produced through my hands would then be from my inner self and be completely unconscious. I throw the lump of crude, wet plaster on the smooth polished surface; a gesture pf creation... and the plaster sets.” – William Johnstone, in the catalogue introduction for ‘Genesis’, ten plaster reliefs exhibited by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1973.
Lot 121
Winstanley cat and kitten (size 1 and 3), Action Man doll with deep sea diver and other accessories, a Steiff Manni Mammut (mammoth), and 1990s glamour stills mounted in card, and various rolled posters.Qty: 1 boxCondition report:Both cats have bubbles in the glaze. The nude female cycling race poster has creases and some tears to the edge. All other items are in very good condition.Please see additional uploaded image.
Lot 912
Palitoy - Action Man - Little Big Man - A group of action figures and accessories including a vintage Action Man figure with detached blonde flock head, some additional clothing, a rifle rack and 2 x incomplete Little Big Man figures. The items appear Fair to Good overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
Lot 915
Palitoy - Cherilea - Action Man - A group of vintage Action Man items, an Army Foden truck with a quantity of clothing and accessories including hats, boots and weapons. They show some signs of age and use and are unchecked for completeness, appear Fair to Good overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
Lot 914
Palitoy - Action Man - Cherilea - A group of vintage Action Man items including a blonde flock haired Action Man figure with missing hands, a canoe with paddles, a Scout Car and a Jeep. They show signs of age and use and appear Fair to Good overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
Lot 843
SEVEN BOXES AND LOOSE MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS to include two boxes of DVDs comprising horror titles to include Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Python, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Octopus II, Graveyard Shift, Komodo, The Wicker Man, a group of music DVDs to include Il Divo, Daniel O'Donnell, Dean Martin, assorted action movies, two boxes and other empty DVD cases, two boxes of books to include approximately thirty mostly reference books comprising biographies, gardening, cooking, etc, a box of approximately fifteen diecast cards to include manufacturers Corgi, Lesney, Matchbox etc, two wicker baskets, a boxed Waddingtons Jack Straws, four walking sticks, a vintage wooden work box, a boxed Crosshatch watch, etc (2 boxes and loose) (s.d)
Lot 472
Palitoy Action Man vintage #34713 Land Rover with fold-down windscreen, engine insert, spare wheel and strap, NO gearstick, not checked for correctness/completeness - generally Fair to Good (some visible glue repairs have been made to the front bumper and tailgate), within Fair original box (stars removed) - see photos.
Lot 461
Hasbro Action Man 40th Anniversary Edition Nostalgic Collection pair to include (1) AM038 comprising Talking Commander and The Red Devil Parachutist Set; (2) AM043 comprising Sailor and The Navy Attack Set - Excellent to Mint, within Good open outer boxes and Excellent to Near Mint inner boxes, the contents appear to be unused and complete (but not checked) - see photos. (2)
Lot 397
Palitoy/Cherilea Action Man vintage group to include (1) loose/undressed flock hair, gripping hands (hands have hardened and become brittle) Figure - Fair; (2) #34155 Field Radio Pack comprising radio, headset, bag, 3 x discs, leaflet - with inner card packing piece and strap - Good, within a Good lift off lid box; (3) 2 x EMPTY Field Commander and Field Radio boxes with inner cards and straps - Fair, (4) 4 x loose Field Radios with bag/covers - Fair to Poor; (5) Cherilea German Army Motorcycle and Sidecar with machine gun and leaflet - Good, within Poor box, also includes 1 additional EMPTY Cherilea box - Poor, not checked for completeness and not tested - see photos. (10)
Lot 29
Palitoy Limited 1982 New Products Brochure (products include Action Force, Action Man, Star Wars, Tiny Tears, Strawberry Shortcake, Girls World, Meccano, plus others). This lot is from the personal collection of Bob Brechin - Manager and Lead Designer of Action Force, and includes a personally signed certificate of authenticity - see photos.
Lot 454
Palitoy (and similar) Action Man vintage/modern loose/unboxed accessories including guns, hats/helmets, boots, plus other accessories, Hasbro jeep (1 wheel is loose), Assault Craft, modern Hasbro Action figure and accessories, not checked for completeness - see photos. Conditions are generally Fair to Poor. (Qty)
Lot 460
Hasbro Action Man 40th Anniversary Edition Nostalgic Collection pair to include (1) AM005 comprising Soldier and The French Resistance Fighter Set; (2) AM048 comprising Soldier and The French Foreign Legion Set - Excellent to Mint, within Good open outer boxes and Good Plus to Near Mint inner boxes, the contents appear to be unused and complete (but not checked) - see photos. (2)
Lot 26
Ogilvy Benson & Mather Palitoy's advertising agency Brochure includes original letter and original photocopied Action Man adverts for May 1980. This lot is from the personal collection of Bob Brechin - Manager and Lead Designer of Action Force, and includes a personally signed certificate of authenticity - see photos.
Lot 561
A mixed group of vintage Action Figures to include "The Six Million Dollar Man", The Lone Ranger figures - Tonto & Butch Cavendish, Evel Knievel, Matchbox Fighting Furies - Capt. Peg Leg, plus others, with some accessories - generally Fair to Good, not checked for completeness, includes Fair Matchbox Fighting Furies - Capt. Peg Leg box with leaflets - see photo. (Qty)
Lot 463
Hasbro Action Man 40th Anniversary Edition Nostalgic Collection pair to include (1) AM035 comprising Adventurer Figure and Medic Set; (2) Action Man Explorer - Mountaineer Set - Excellent to Mint, within Good open outer boxes (some small tears on the boxes) and Excellent inner boxes, the contents appear to be unused and complete (but not checked) - see photos. (2)
Lot 431
Palitoy (or similar) Action Man vintage group of various Instruction Leaflets / Ephemera / Catalogues to include; Deep Sea Diver, Mountain Rescue, Pursuit Craft, Famous British Uniforms - The Royal Marines, 81-MM Mortar, Action Man - Adventure Books, plus others - some duplication - conditions are generally Fair to Good. (50+)
Lot 470
Palitoy Action Man vintage loose/unboxed group to include (1) flock hair, gripping hands, dynamic body figure, wearing 'Anniversary Issue' SAS outfit; (2) Captain Zargon figure with accessories; (3) #34710 Scorpion Tank with tracks and flag (hatches have broken off, but are present), plus other accessories, etc, also includes a quantity of reference books by Alan Hall, Kevin King and Ian Harrison - generally Fair to Good, not checked for completeness - see photo. (Qty)
Lot 474
Hasbro Action Man (and similar), a quantity of loose action figures, vehicles and accessories (most have been individually wrapped by the Vendor and include weapons, instruction leaflets) - Good to Excellent. Also includes a small quantity of loose vintage Palitoy uniform / Cherilea Military Jeep and trailer - Fair to Good and K'NEX #63030 Roller Coaster, with instructions leaflets - Fair to Good, within Fair box, all parts are not checked for completeness - see photos. (Qty)
Lot 417
Hasbro Action Man vintage loose Tom Stone figure, wearing camouflage jacket, trousers, green cloth beret, Heckler & Koch MP5A2 rifle, short boots, also includes loose/undressed Tom Stone figure (1 hand is missing), 4 x spare pairs of hands, generally Fair to Good, not checked for completeness - see photos.
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