Spring 2024

In This Issue

By John Franklin |

Fall 2024

When Britains started producing toy soldiers about 130 or more years ago, London was administratively, by and large, composed of four quarter sectors being all...

SNIPPETS FROM THE RICHARD O’BRIENEPHEMERA ARCHIVE

By Norman Joplin |

Fall 2024

Barclay Update Having the pleasure of accessing the Richard O’Brien Ephemera Archive, owned by Old Toy Soldier,here are a few snippets from the files, which...

Britains Quiz

By Joe Wallis |

Fall 2024

This article presents an array of questions (with answers provided on pages 40-41) that shouldbe fun for collectors of Britains to ponder. For more photographs,...

BAVARIAN KINGS AND PRINCE REGENTS FROM 1864 – 1918 IN OLD LEAD SOLDIERS

By Gisbert Freber |

Fall 2024

Introduction For several years now, I have had three old lead soldiers on horseback in my collection, which have nowgiven rise to this article. The...

Sporting Figures – A Herculean Olympic Collecting Challenge

By Rob Wilson |

Fall 2024

Introduction The summer Olympic Games held this year in Paris inspired renewed interest in sporting figures. M Broquet published an interesting piece (Le Jeu des...

RE-VISITING THE SOLDIERS OF HACHETTE & CIE

By Russ Bednarek |

Fall 2024

My initial article regarding the series of embossed die cut paper soldiers produced by the French firm Hachette & Cie appeared in Old Toy Soldier,...

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Features

Hobby News

By Norman Joplin |

Fall 2024

FRIENDS CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF FREDDIE THE CLOWN One sad note at this year’s Chicagoland Show was the passing of “Freddy the Clown”. Freddy Crumley...

AUCTION REVIEW

By Old Toy Soldier Auctions USA |

Fall 2024

AUCTION # 100 -THE WALKER WAINWRIGHT COLLECTION PART IFRIDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 2024 Lot 1072 Britains set #98 Kings Royal Rifle Corps $2600 Lot 1068 Britains...

SHOW REPORT – EUROFIGURINES OCTOBER 13TH

By Harry Kemp |

Fall 2024

Dinner with fellow collectors and dealers in hotel night before show Another cross-channel ferry trip from Dover to Calais, a drive to Paris and I...

SHOW REPORT – KULMBACH SHOW REPORT 2024

By Rob Wilson |

Fall 2024

This is the 4th time I have attended the Kulmbach event in Southern Germany. If my purchases are anything to go by, this was the...

SHOW REPORT – SANDOWN SHOW REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2024

By Rob Wilson |

Fall 2024

Sandown Park, on the west side of London, right next to Hampton Court Palace, remains one of the highlights of the toy collecting calendar. With...

RECONNAISSANCE

By Rob Wilson |

Fall 2024

Feix and HeydeGisbert Freber sent in this image of a set he picked up at the Kulmbach show. The box label (in English) states that...

December Auction Preview

By Old Toy Soldier Auctions USA |

Fall 2024

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TOY SOLDIERS - DECEMBER 13, 2024, 10 AM EST. King & Country #RF007(G) Roman Fort (Graystone) RARE Britains “American Soldier Military...

Editorial

By Rob Wilson |

Fall 2024

As the nights draw in and another year comes to a close, I realised that with this issue I am now coming up to the...

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