Euro Baggies
Frank Mewes
Chihuahua
Chihuahua
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No text. These have to date been found with no COO & scarred COO figures previously being sold as Meccano, but are PBP issued often found in overstock baggies from the Meccano factory.
Please be aware like the Kenner issued ESB-a (1st issue) baggie, these are very thin & quite fragile, HANDLE WITH GREAT CARE!
Euro-e/B – Twin Heat Sealed – Soft but more rigid that the Euro-e/A’s I am at this point “speculating” that these are in fact another Palitoy baggie type with the figures found in them so far being either MIHK or No Coo, not coo scarred like with the Euro-e/A’s & of a different material type.
Euro-f (Meccano) – declassified (for now) there is no Euro-f classification, this is due to new information discovered when the huge find of Meccano red sticker (free figure offer) were discovered & it was found that the sticker offer covered multiple baggie types rather than just one, this would have been more obvious if the stickers were not always placed directly over the fonts, subsequently all of the known baggie types used for the offer were actually already covered in this guide or the Kenner one, so as stated, for now there is no longer a Euro-f baggie type!
This baggie type is soft material & usually always found stapled rather than heat or tape sealed. It was one issued in France & most examples have come from the Meccano counter top red sticker free figure offer. Please note this baggie type has no text.
This classification previously covered all the red sticker baggies till it was discovered multiple baggie types had been used in the promotion. This was not clear till the big cache of them turned up in 2016, these were so rare before the find that it was impossible to know this as they used the red stickers to cover any font on the various baggies used in the promotion.
This has always been considered to be a Kenner ESB-h baggie but it varies considerably both in size & in the COO of the figures included & is now confirmed to be of European not United States origins.
The Euro-i is twin heat sealed & the font is noticeably larger, this baggie was known to have been distributed in France in the free figure when you buy a large vehicle offer (red sticker).
Not to be confused with the similar Euro-c which is single rather than twin heat sealed.
A French issue Meccano baggie, with large defined straight edge’s black font but horizontal rather than vertical, can be found both taped & stapled with what would look to be brass staples.
Additional image of another Euro-j font, this is the first time we have managed to see one from the French free figure offer without the red sticker over the font clearly, one can see that although the font type set & size are the same, there is some minor variation in terms of how chunky/thick the font can be on these, much like other known font variations with a large & small font version.
Many thanks to Enric Rovira & Javier Ruilopez for info & images on this section.
These are baggies were only for transporting figures from the welding machine to blister machine & only for factory use tape sealed (Type-B), and not exclusive to the Star Wars line, & also between internal departments heat sealed, (type-A).
Sadly bar the little scrap at the bottom from a date sheet & the actual images, we don’t have much else in terms of information or documentation, but are sure these are authentic.
Euro-l (a) Soft baggie/ Heat sealed
Euro-l (b) Soft baggie/ Tape sealed
Photos courtesy of Enric Rovira & Javier Ruilopez
The only snippet in the form of evidence we have, sadly the owner wished to remain anonymous, so we can’t include anything further, not sure what it all means but hey it’s what I got to share.
Euro-n from the collection of late Fabrice Furbeyre, looks to be soft material/heat sealed & the font is either a faded blue or purple & sports the Macao spelling variation.
This image like the ERG shown came from a flea market find in France form a collectors called Fabrice Fuybert who has sadly since passed away, it would be the only non Kenner baggie we have seen this figure in, sadly it can not be classified as all we have to go on is this tiny image which has been cropped from the bulk find image (shown in the bulk finds section), the rest of the baggies in the find were authentic so one would think this one is as well, obviously it’s impossible to make out what it states on the baggie text & it would seem to be of a crisp material type & heat sealed with very small grey/blue font, I wanted to include it in case other examples ever crop up which sadly seems unlikely now.
Just another example of how much we still don’t know about baggies & what wonders ended up never making it on to the card-stock they were very likely intended for.
Special thanks to these contributors for their knowledge and image contributions:
Laurence Dyer, Arnaud Heyser, Andrew Neo, AJ, Snaggletooth, Kevin Bletsoe, Brett Meyer, DEL, Gary Borbidge, Edd Grant, Chris Eddleman, Vince Hely, Nathan Maunder, Jamie Woollard, Niels Pit, Andrew MacLachlan, cantina_patron, Franck Gadal, Joe, Richard Temple, Sven Schneider, Steve Savory, Shane Carter, Chris Fawcett, Andy Clarke, psybertech, Jake Neilheisel, Alex Pardi, Marc Caraway, Spookedhippy, Frank Ferro, James Body, Jonathan Freeman, Grant Criddle, Chris Arbizzani, RobbieZombbie, Narayan S. Naik, Mark Yeo, SHAWN_K, Andy Raymond, MOMIKE, theguiltyone, Sublevel Studios, Mike Silver, Mr Palitoy, Ronny Anngren, Willem-Jan Bos, Robert Heron, Darren H, REBELALLIANCE, Uncle Ron, LandoSkiff (Dan), Mike Horn, Pat O’Brien, Benjamin, Samir Krim, Pete Fizke, Final Frontier, Mike Heel, MR KENNER, John Kellerman, Paul Naylor, Matthieu Barthelemy, Stéphane Faucourt, Yogi, Chris Simmons, Stormtrooper37, Thomas Derby, Todd G, Sheldon Wagstaffe, Derek Ho, Broc Walker, Adam Marks, James Gallo, Charles Jones, Darrell Johnson & Brendi Burton, Christian Somma, Johnpaul Ragusa, Jesse Cedar Soberman, Dorothée Drouin, Dennis Hall, Javier Ruilopez, Enric Rovira, Matthew Carlise, Stephen Tzaras.
Photos in the guide galleries below are compiled from a number of photo sources. It’s not been possible to find credits for each one, however, if you own one of the featured images and want to have your credit added, or don’t wish to have your photo included, please let me know and I’ll arrange.
Thanks, Chihuahua.
