2024
Spring 2024
Paper Soldiers
Chasseurs d’Afrique, Émile Guérin, Paris, circa 1900
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2023
Spring 2023
Featuring:
Colour Variations of Timpo’s Hopalong Cassidy Series
By John Cupman
Winter 2023
Featuring:
George William Wood; The Forgotten Manufacturer
By Norman Joplin and Richard Forrester
2022
Summer 2022
Featuring:
Queen Elizabeth as Colonel-in-Chief of the Guards; Trooping the Colour
By Will Beierwaltes
2021
Fall 2021
Featuring:
Britains Largest Post-War Display Set (2081), Part 1
by Rob Wilson
2020
Fall 2020
Featuring:
FAO Schwarz Timpo West Point Cadets Display Set
Summer 2020
Featuring:
Britains New York State Militia – An Unusual Variation on Set #149
by Rob Wilson
Spring 2020
Featuring:
Heyde Large Scale Personality Figures (One Man and His Horse)
by Harry Kemp
Winter 2020
Featuring:
Cumulative Subject Index 2010-2019, Volumes 34-43
by Joe Wallis
2019
Summer 2019
Featuring:
Popular Playthings & Thomas Toys Plastic Space Figures
by Bill Hanlon & Norman Joplin
Spring 2019
Featuring:
The General – Britains Early Mechanical & Gyroscopic Toys of the 1800s – Part 2
by Norman Joplin & Philippa Dupoylen
Winter 2019
Featuring:
Early British Manufacturers. The Faudel Phillips/Renvoize Connection
by Norman Joplin
2018
2017
Fall 2017
Featuring:
Chelsea Pensioners
by Norman Joplin
Summer 2017
Featuring:
Britains Beaufighter
by Norm Joplin
Spring 2017
Featuring:
British Camel Corps Regiments 1884 and
the Possible Britains Connection
Norman Joplin
Winter 2017
Featuring:
Heyde Large Scale Kings (and Emperors!)
By Rob Wilson
2016
Fall 2016
Featuring:
Trophy’s Christmas
By Norman Joplin and Russ Bednarek
Summer 2016
Featuring:
Frazier Museum Stewart Toy Soldier Gallery
Norman Joplin
Spring 2016
Featuring:
Barclay’s Cuban Flag Bearers
Stan Alekna
Winter 2016
Featuring:
Undiscovered Gems – Rose Miniatures
By Dick Pielin
2015
Fall 2015
Featuring:
Don Pielin
Congratulations on 35 Years of OTS
Summer 2015
Featuring:
BRITAINS CLYDE MODEL DOCKYARD
By Norman Joplin
Spring 2015
Featuring:
PARADE OF SOVEREIGNS
By Norman Joplin
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Winter 2015
Featuring:
Britains Largest Guardsman
By Norman Joplin
2014
Fall 2014
Featuring:
Before the Tin Army of the Potomac Early German-Made, American-Themed Toy Soldier Sets
By Earl Jorgensen
Summer 2014
Featuring:
Commemorating World War One Scepter
By Norman Joplin
Spring 2014
Featuring:
Filling in the
Line Terrain Terrier
By Norman Joplin
Winter 2014
Featuring:
Is this Britain’s First Toy Soldier Catalogue?
By Rob Wilson
2013
Fall 2013
Featuring:
Made in Argentina
By Norman Joplin
Summer 2013
Featuring:
The Conversions of Neal Crowley
By Jack Matthews
Spring 2013
Featuring:
Greenwood and Ball: An example of the 25mm Connoisseur Range – Magna Carta
By Rob Wilson
Winter 2013
Featuring:
Britains 120th Anniversary Life Guards
by Norman Joplin
2012
Fall 2012
Featuring:
Timpo. Quentin Durward,Ivanhoe and Crusaders Series. A Look Beyond the 190/1951 Timpo Catalog
by Norman Joplin
Summer 2012
Featuring:
Toyell – London Ceremonial Souvenir Toy Soldiers
by Norman Joplin
Spring 2012
Featuring:
Shamus Wade – Auction Preview Toy Soldier and Figure Auction
by Norman Joplin
Winter 2012
Featuring:
G.W. Wood and Co. Part 1 – The Forgotten Manufacturer
Norman Joplin
2011
Summer 2011
Featuring:
1066 and All That: A Homage to Frederick Ping
Rob Wilson
Spring 2011
Featuring:
The Roy Selwyn-Smith Archive – Part One
Norman Joplin
Winter 2011
Featuring:
M.I.M. of Belgium
Russ Bednarek
2010
Fall 2010
Featuring:
Besold Flats
Norman Joplin
Summer 2010
Featuring:
Timpo GI’s: A Remembrance
Norman Joplin
Spring 2010
Featuring:
Heyde’s Taking of Troy
Steve Sommers, S. Mark Young and Markus Grein
Winter 2010
Featuring:
Things Aren’t Always What They Appear to Be
Russ Bednarek
2009
Fall 2009
Featuring:
The King that Never Was
Rob Wilson
Summer 2009
Featuring:
Britians Toy Town Figures
Norman Joplin
Spring 2009
Featuring:
Barclay’s Bikes
by Stan Alekna
Winter 2009
Featuring:
The West India Regiment Britians Set #19
by Joe Wallis
2008
Fall 2008
Featuring:
Paper Soldiers
by Ed Ryan
Summer 2008
Featuring:
The Spectacular Hollow-Cast Creations of Georg Munckle and a Visit to Toy Mania in Paris
by Norman Joplin and Jean Benard Doublet
Spring 2008
Featuring:
Herrings Caught
by John C. Stewart
Winter 2008
Featuring:
Grants Whisky Highlanders Manufacturer Mystery
by John T. Watersworth
2007
Fall 2007
Featuring:
Three Generations of Christmas Magic…
by Bonny Bray Skovbroten
Summer 2007
Featuring:
Britains Famous Football Teams
by Norman Joplin and Colonel Donald Pudney
Spring 2007
Featuring:
Belgian Composition Figures “Pirates”
by Vincent J. Russo and Patrice Servais
Winter 2007
Featuring:
A Touch of Nostalgia
by Gus Gardner
2006
Fall 2006
Featuring:
30 Years of OTS Magazine – Part 3
Norman Joplin
Summer 2006
Featuring:
30 YEARS OF OLD TOY SOLDIER MAGAZINE PART 2 1986-1996
By Norman Joplin
Spring 2006
Featuring:
TRICO; JAPANESE PRE-WAR COMPOSITION THE LARGE AND EXTRA-LARGE SIZE MILITARY FIGURES
By Will Beierwaltes and Joseph Touhill
Winter 2006
Featuring:
BRITAINS SALVATION ARMY 1906 VERSION BOXES AND GENERAL BOOTH, MYSTERIES SOLVED – PART ONE
By Norman Joplin
2005
Fall 2005
Currently unavailable
Summer 2005
Featuring:
DIMESTORE CAMERAMEN
By Verne Johnson, Steve Sommers and Don Pielin
Spring 2005
Featuring:
BUCK ROGERS CASTING SETS, MOLDS AND FIGURES OF THE 25TH CENTURY
By Will Beierwaltes and Ron Eccles
Winter 2005
Featuring:
SETS BRITAINS SHOULD HAVE MADE
By William J. Miele
2004
Fall 2004
Featuring:
“MADAME TUSSAUD” “IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD”
by Philip Dean
Summer 2004
Featuring:
BRITAINS CORONATION COACH “SPECIAL”
By John Mundey
Spring 2004
Featuring:
A Look at the Labels and Trademarks of the Old German Makers Part 1: “The Biggest Box of Heydes I’ve Ever Seen”
By Earl Jorgensen
Winter 2004
Not available
2003
Fall 2003
Featuring:
American Metal Toy’s Tanks
Stan Alekna
Summer 2003
Featuring:
Britains Tagged Feature
Philip Dean
Spring 2003
Featuring:
The Durso Company, “Bandits”
Vincent J. Russo and Patrice Servais
Winter 2003
Featuring:
At Ease Soldiers
Morton A. Hirschberg
2002
Fall 2002
Featuring:
Wendal Nativity
By Philip Dean
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Summer 2002
Featuring:
British Royalty in Coronation Robes
By Norman Joplin
Spring 2002
Featuring:
Britains Royal Horse Artillery
Rob Wilson
Winter 2002
Not available
2001
Fall 2001
Featuring:
21st Annual OTSN Show
By Jo Sommers
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Summer 2001
Featuring:
Do You Know this Man? The Search for James Edward Jones
By Walter J. Keener Jr.
Spring 2001
Featuring:
The Britain Family History
By Joe Wallis
Winter 2001-2002
Featuring:
Britains Road Series – Part 1 – Petrol Pumps
By Philip Dean