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…
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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…
Feix and Heyde Gisbert Freber sent in this image of a set he picked up at the Kulmbach show. The box label (in English) states…
The summer Olympic Games held this year in Paris inspired renewed interest in sporting figures. M Broquet published an interesting piece (Le Jeu des Jeux,…
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…
Another quarter slips by. Here’s hoping you like our latest offering. Remember electronic copies of all past issues are now available free on our website.…
Fans of the Netflix series The Crown may have spotted a few toy soldiers in the final episode of Season 6, ‘Sleep Dearie Sleep’. The…
THE USE OF THE TOY SOLDIER, THE MILITARY TOY, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MILITARIZATION OF CHILDHOOD IN THE WESTERN WORLD FROM 1870 TO 1940…
Personality figures at C&TC&T Auctions, in Kent, UK presented another interesting auction in June 2024. As well as many Lucotte figures, and Britains Paris Office…
An historically very important set of lead soldiers came up for auction in Paris earlier this year. Reputedly made for Napoleon’s son, the King of…