Saturday 9th of September, back again at one of my favourite shows. The first show for me in ten months, following a nasty fall in…
Posts published in “Fall 2023”
Volume 47 Number 3
Regimental Historical Background Founded in 1795, the West India Regiment were infantry units of the British Army, recruited from and stationed in the related British…
Auction #85 – THE JACK JONES COURTENAY COLLECTIONSeptember 8, 2023 AUCTION #86 – HOOKED ON SOLDIERS SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 Auction #87 – A SOLDIER SOIREE…
The toy soldier company named after its founder “William Feix” was one of the very first metal toy soldier manufacturers in the United States. Before…
‘Italian space figures are some of the most imaginative of the 1950s … most desirable and highly sought after for collectors’ – S. Mark Young,…
For another year the Hotel Parco EUR hosted the EUROMA2023 event, organized by the Alfa Model Club. As usual, this led to an excellent result,…
I recently acquired the item pictured below because I knew that it was an unusual, seldom seen Dimestore figure, about which very little was known.…
It was at the OTS Show in Chicago in 2008 when Don Pielin approached me about some very old slate moulds from Germany that he…
Following up on my recent article on British Coronation figures (OTS 46(2), 2022), I had hoped that one of the modern manufacturers would produce a…
When Roger Garfield announced the sad news that the Chicago Toy Soldier Show for 2023 was to be cancelled because of the intransigence of the…