Here's a follow up on the Comic book flats we featured last December. First, here's an e-mail we received from Daniel Duldig of Australia:
"I have a c.1970 plastic play set ordered through a USA comic book and would like to know more about them if someone at HäT or on your "other things of interest" board can help. I have attached a colour scan of a sample of the figures which are quite unusual (at least to me). They are flats (or semi-flats)about 4cm high in 2 colours (yellow and blue). They show "Roman" style soldiers and cavalry as well as chariots and came in an unmarked plastic bag of perhaps 120 figures. The plastic is unusual being a rigid kind that "clinks" when pieces are tapped together. I suspect they may be copies of much older German metal flats but would be delighted if anyone could shed more light on them..they were probably common in the USA back then but not here in Australia!"
We asked for some scans and here they are! These scans do bring back many memories and it is interesting to see that the scan of the horseman with the spear has the spear broken off just as mine was all those years ago.
On another note, here is a scan of Revolutionary War (if you're English) or American War of Independance (if you're American) flats. (What do other Europeans call this war?) This scan is courtesy of Brent Senior-Partridge of New Zealand.
Many thanks to both these contributors from the other side of the world.