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Straight from the living legend....CAPANTHER
All 67 Bigmen had the words "hong kong" engraved on the bottom of the base.
In late 1968 Tudor switched to slightly smaller men , that would become to be known as "hoglegs" . Hoglegs only have 3 players with "hong kong" on the bottom.
Once again in 1970 Tudor switched their men again and made what we call "chicken legs". Chicken legs were almost the same size as hoglegs but not as thick and not as detailed and only come in black shoes. Chicken legs were made from 1970 until 1974.
Haiti figures were bigger than Hoglegs but smaller than 67 Bigmen. Haiti figures were probably known best for nice neat paint jobs. Like all their older "brothers" from Hong Kong that had certain identifiable characteristics., Haiti could be identified by the little "burs" on each side of their base on the bottom side.
All of Hong Kong and haiti teams from 1967 until about 1975 or 76 had black shoes.
This changed at this time and all figures after that had and still are produced with white shoes. In 1978 or 79 production was switched back to Hong Kong where it stayed until the early 90's when China took over production.
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