Historical data
This must be from the early fifties although there’s no date on it. When we first produced PC49 the retail price was 1s/3d, which is what it says here and that was in 1950 when you also had to use a ration coupon.
Quite a few of the figure soaps had glass eyes. I don’t think we’d get away with that today! However, you can still get a safe gold paint, so if we ever wanted to make PC49 again, (who had gold buttons and helmet crest), the painting would be the least of our problems.