Look what i dug up

[keef]

O.k, love things like this and got bitten by this. Keef, look at this site, I know it isn't one of these but how similar in design?
http://northstargallery.com/cars/indexmascots.htm
What is it made of? I would probably die of excitement if I found something like that. All I've found so far are lots of special brew tins!

I've looked there already - and its not there. It could be a bespoke one - ie not from a manufacturer, someone just bought it and stuck it on thier car...

I dig up loads of stuff on my allotmet - clay pipes, bottles, old cuttlery etc.. i even dug up a tiny china milk jug about an inch long (from a dolls house abviously) - it was'nt cracked or chiped and even the tiny handle was on one peice! If i can find it i'll post a pic.

[keef]

[emmy1978]

Hey keef, I did check that it wasn't one of those, but the design looked so familiar to me, thought it would illustrate the similarity in era.
Have you considered everything you are finding is from same household, and is it definately from a car? Threaded holes could indicate it had a stand of some description and so could be from an ornament or lamp fr'instance?
Sorry, but brought up with mad collector family and Lovejoy wannabe as father. It's an illness i tells ya. Looking through my Millers now for any ornament that looks similar.  :P

[Kea]

My dad had a 1954 Humber supersnipe......it had a lady of some sort on the bonnet.....I think it was a lady. He had it until about 1976 he sold it to someone who let it rust.

[Trixiebelle]

Stories like that make me want to burst into tears Kea  :-[  ;D

[Trixiebelle]

I'm off to look for metal detectors on E Bay  ;D Always wanted one as a child ... never allowed. Also wanted an Etchasketch and a pogo-stick. Seriously deprived background .... I'm still in therapy.

[cornykev]

Always wanted one, got one but hardly used it, so I'm going to put some batterys in it and away I'll go.   ;D ;D ;D

[miniroots]

This is going to bug me now - let us know if you work it out...

It looks most like a Cadillac Hood Ornament - they seem to be the only ones with straight legs and the arms flung back with the hair - but can't find this one...

But I did find this:
http://www.lepoix.de/

Which suggests that it could be worth a bit if it's rare - mind you it might not clean up that well...

[keef]

Its very badly pitted and all the plating has come off unfotunatley. I almost certain its what they call a barry boy enhancement now-a-days. There are still companies selling bonnet figures - that are'nt actually from any brand of car, just random designs.

[Trixiebelle]

Always wanted one, got one but hardly used it, so I'm going to put some batterys in it and away I'll go.   ;D ;D ;D

You've got a battery operated pogo-stick Corny? !  ;D

[cornykev]

I got nicked for speeding on it, the coppers put me on a CHARGE.   ;D ;D ;D