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The above pictures are from a unique two bag header card set made in the 1980s. One bag hold the plastic fence and animals while the other bag has the heavy card stock barn.
ORIGINAL BAGGED SETS
-Header Card Bag 131 Farm Set "29 Cents", circa 1960s, 8 pieces.
- Header Card Bag 490 Farm Set "49 Cents", circa 1960s, Bag says 15 pieces I counted 17, has red fence & tan trough.
- Header Card bag 140 Farm Set "98 Cents", circa 1960s, About 30 pieces including tractor.
Blister Card 1243 B-LINE Farm Set "29 Cents", blister card circa 1965, 12 pieces.
- Header Card Bag 1410 Farm Set "1.00", circa early 1970s. Bag says 34 pieces but there are more than that (about 50). Made by Processed Plastic but sold by their Tim-Mee division. Has hard to find tiny animals; rabbit and kitten + tools.
- - Header Card Bag 1174 Processed Plastic Farm Set, circa 1985-90, later animals, 26 pieces including card stock barn.
5.00 Cardstock barn, never assembled.
- Header Card Bag 1174 Processed Plastic Farm Set BARNYARD BUDDIES, circa 1990-99, later animals, 26 pieces. (3)
- Header Card Bag 1176 PPCo Farm Set 66 pcs including cardboard barn. Has tiny animals and tools. Circa early 1970s.
- Header Card Bag 590 Farm Set, Has small tractor and about 11 other pieces of Tim-Mee farmers and animals.
- Header Card Bag 5902 Farm Set 16 pc, Has later PPCo animals.
- Bucket 1435Big Bucket of Farm Animals with Buckboard 51 Pieces, still sealed but bucket has a crack.
Lot of Tim-Mee farm items made at the factory in Germany, early 1950s.
The farm figures are about 45-50mm in size. The woman with the hoe and the farmer forking hay seem to be much more common than the other poses and it is possible the scarecrow and the other three figures were deleted from production at an earlier time.
Large 40/45mm Cows and Horses
Certainly Processed Plastic made new versions of these poses but we find it hard to tell the difference between the older Tim-Mee and new PPCo versions.
Tim-Mee farm animals were put not only in the farm bags but several of the western sets as well to increase the piece count. We have seen the tan/butterscotch and redbrown animals in a variety of western bagged sets. These animals came in perhaps several molds that may have also contained the farmers and tools. Tim-Mee apparently made more than one of some of the poses as different sizes exist.
Farm Tools
Also part of the Tim-Mee farm mold were a hand pump and a trough.
- Fence MADE IN 10 red, tan and cream white.
PROCESSED PLASTIC FARM ITEMS
After the Processed Plastic takeover of Tim-Mee in 1964 (official Jan 1, 1965) about 1970 they made new farm animals which were sold under their own Processed Plastic name as well as the Tim-Mee name they continued to use.
They made some very small animals which were quickly discontinued (rabbit, kitten, small fowl & piglet without base). It is probable all 12 animals seen above were made in one mold. They were sold with the new PPCO medium size animals without bases (dog, sheep, goat & pig) as well as the tools and new farmer & farm woman. Probably due to their small size the kitten, rabbit, chicken and fowl were eliminated.
Then they put the small fowl on one base which was eliminated soon as well. The piglets were given bases. They also made a larger chicken and rooster on one base that was then often cut apart by the buyer. The Collie dog, Goat, Pig and Sheep were remade with bases and bagged sets may contain examples of medium animals with and without bases. By =the mid 70s the hand tools, animals with out bases and all small animals had been eliminated and sets only contained the larger dual fowl, dog, pig, sheep & goat. The humans also were eliminated eventually as well
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Farm Tub 50+ pieces (colors and pose assortment may differ from above photo). These were from the last production run, Silver animals are Tootsie Toy that were thrown in the mix after the merger in 2004.
Processed Plastic also made a large 70mm tractor. Both tractors were made and sold as bin toys in the early 1960s before the take over of Tim-Mee. The small tractor was then added to Tim-Mee farm bags for awhile. The wagon may go with the tractor but both pieces have a "hole" connector so some type of pin or other device would be needed to connect the pieces together.
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Tim-Mee made a nice series of 12 dogs sold on blister cards. The German Shepherd "police dog" is a close mirror image to their standard German Shepherd that can be found in many western and farm bagged sets. They also wholesaled the dogs to metal vehicle maker NYLINT who put them in their kennel trucks (seen in Sears & Montgomery Wards catalogs circa 1963-66). Slightly smaller copies were made in Hong Kong.
Dogs were made in many colors including; tan, butterscotch, redbrown, black, gray, white, cream and more.
Other Tim-Mee Dogs
- Short hair "camp dog" from western bagged sets;
TM64A Camp dog, earth tone made in earth tone and bright colors..
- Standard German Shepherd head turned to the right.
CIRCUS SET
The circus set is one of the harder to find Tim-Mee sets. It consisted of a ringmaster, girl (girl courtesy Les Gardner) and 10 different animals. When sold the header card bag might also have a few of the much more common clowns plus some of the hard to find mini animals.
CLOWNS
- NONE - Header Card Bag 188, Clowns, About 15 figures, circa 1960s.
Some of the figures have copyright information that tells us the clowns were made in 1958. 
Miniature Animals
- NONE - Blister Card 1241, Wild Animals, All 12 animals, they call the otter a beaver. Circa 1960s.
These small 25-30mm mini animals were sold on blister cards under Processed Plastic's "B-Line" logo in 1965. They were also included in Tim-Mee "Big Top" circus themed bagged sets and perhaps as Cracker Jack Prizes. Oddly the PPCo blister card incorrectly calls the otter (or weasel) a beaver!
PEOPLE (SUBURBAN FAMILY)
First made by Processed Plastic in the late 1970s. The six 54mm surburban family members were sold simply as "people" in header bags. The 18 piece bag would have 17 assorted figures (but maybe not all six poses) + the later Tim-Mee army jeep made in bright red.
- NONE - Header Car bag toys For Little Girls, a dust pan & brush!!! No wonder girls were mad!.
CONSTRUCTION FIGURES
These 60mm figures were sold with a variety of construction vehicles under the Tim-Mee and Processed Plastic banners..
AUTO RACING FIGURES
Processed Plastic made this set after the take over of Tim-Mee and put it in their Tim-Mee line. There were nine different figures plus a traffic cone. The driver standing a drinking a bottle of pop and a few of the pit crew have the Processed Plastic logo on their backs. Earlier sets targeted Indy car race fans but as thier internal squabbles led to a decline and NASCAR arose Processed Plastic just changed header cards and kept selling.
1966 Tim-Mee (PPCo) Speedway Pit Stop, 24 Pieces, Circa 1970s.
0966 Tim-Mee (PPCo) Speedway Pit Stop, 23 Pieces, Circa 1980s.
Processed Plastic would make special sets for their larger customers including this race set made for true value Hardware Stores about 1985. It has a semi truck, thunderbird race car and four of the racetrack figures.
PPCO 2266 True Value Hardware Stores race set.
FIREMEN
- Header Card Bag 0941, Fire Fighters 26 pieces. Circa 1970s.
Fire Truck set 58850, 2-3 feet long!
Firemen in seven poses were made in white red and blue. The above bag has a bar code that puts it into the 1980s. It has the newer Processed Plastic set numbering system 0941 and contains 26 pieces.
POLICE FIGURES
The SWAT team figures are about 56-58mm and nicely done. They are somewhat hard to come by as they were only sold as an add on to a Police Chiefs car and as part of a child's S.W.A.T. get up. Kneeling shooting scoped rifle figure courtesy of Mike Handley.
In the mid 1990s Processed Plastic released a new set of police figures under the Tim-Mee banner. They are smaller (about 45-50mm) and not as nicely detailed as the older figures. There is a police woman (pose on picture right) in the set.
SPACE ITEMS
- Header Card Bag "Big Bag" 1189. About 98 figures. Circa 1980s.
- Header Card Bag 0931, Galaxy Laser Team 33 pcs. Circa 1970s.
- Bucket 1438 Space Figures 52 Pieces including bright green mountain and two spacejets.
- JLloyd Int. reissue space figures.
54mm Mexican copies of the space figures. One turtle missing a hand.
Titan Rocket, on card. 
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Processed Plastic made a nice 5 stage rocket in the mid 1960s. Stage three is spring loaded and will shoot stage 4 and the tip onward. Usually come with decals.
FANTASY ITEMS
Tim-Mee made these figures about 1963/4 and was sued by Disney. As the tale of Snow White is an old one Tim-Mee prevailed in court. The public was a different matter and after Processed Plastic took over the mold was sent to Mexico due to poor sales in the US.
Processed Plastic reworked their Marvel Super Hero mold to make these more generic fantasy figures. These fantasy figures are about 3 inches tall and marked P.P.C. Montgomery IL.
MARVEL SUPER HEROS
