CAN YOU 'STAND' ANOTHER POST ABOUT MY MARX TOYS BAGATELLES?

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Bear with me, Crivs, it'll soon be over.  Although my two Bagatelles came from different eBay sellers, they were bought and arrived on the same day.  (No, they didn't arrive on the day I bought them - both were purchased on the 12th and arrived on the 18th.)  Fireball XL5 came with its box but no stand, and The Daleks had its stand but no box.  Unfortunately, the stand had been broken in two and glued together at some point, but wasn't in one piece when it reached me.

The two pieces restored to one via superglue

The stand had holes for fingers so that the Bagatelle could be held in place when played with, but I suspect the holes compromised the stand's 'structural integrity' which is likely why it broke.  That'll perhaps be why the stands are usually missing from these Bagatelles, they were probably broken then thrown away, and I suspect that most kids then played with these toys on their laps, not upright on a table.  This Kid is a different bag of spiders though.

Not too shabby, eh?  And yes, they are removeable

I made two new stands, but didn't bother making holes for fingers as it's just as easy to hold the stand so that the Bagatelles don't move while being used.  Though that's not why I made them, I did so merely because it enables me to better display the items in my room.  I've enclosed a photo of the repaired original stand (which still needs cleaned up a bit) as well as my replacements, which were made from a stiff cutting mat, then sprayed silver to enhance their appearance.

So what do you think, Crivvies - didn't I do well?

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Surprisingly, although both original stands would've been the same size and shape, they couldn't have been interchangeable, due to the guides they slide into being ever-so-slightly different on each Bagatelle.  There are little 'bumps' which the stands clip onto (see indentations on original), and they're not quite in the same place from one to the other, something I had to take into consideration when making the replacements.