Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. Sinewgrab is right,they are from the Space Knights line. I had to do some google-fu to confirm this, It had been so long since purchase I had forgotten. James was right about the slender and fragile part when I rediscovered them they were all twisted up. Bateson was an actual Victorian inventor. He came up with a safety coffin to prevent premature burial. Queen Victoria gave him an accommodation for it.