Category: Fall 2024
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Hobby News
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 was a regular at the Chicago event for many years, along with his family, wife Gayetane and sons Trek and Ian. He died in his sleep, following a heart attack… Read more
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BRITAINS MIDDLESEX REGIMENTS
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 or parts of English counties, Middlesex to the NW, Surrey to the SW, Kent to the SE and Essex to the NE. In fact, Middlesex as a county had its… Read more
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AUCTION REVIEW
AUCTION # 100 –THE WALKER WAINWRIGHT COLLECTION PART IFRIDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 2024 Read more
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SNIPPETS FROM THE RICHARD O’BRIENEPHEMERA ARCHIVE
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 were not included in Collecting American Made ToySoldiers. The first item was discovered when the Barclay factory was emptied out. Mcloughlin Update Here are two more items from The Ephemera… Read more
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SHOW REPORT – EUROFIGURINES OCTOBER 13TH
Another cross-channel ferry trip from Dover to Calais, a drive to Paris and I arrive at the Camponile hotel in Nanterre which is 30 yards from the Euro figurines show venue. After a very convivial meal with fellow collectors and sellers, I set my alarm for 6 am for the show on Sunday morning. This… Read more
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SHOW REPORT – KULMBACH SHOW REPORT 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 best show ever! My first visit was back in 2007, when myself and a number of other Brits as well as Americans and many other nationalities arranged to rendezvous at… Read more
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SHOW REPORT – SANDOWN SHOW REPORT, SEPTEMBER 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 4 shows a year, there are plenty of opportunities to partake of the joys this event regularly provides. The September event was no exception. The doors open at 8.00am but… Read more
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Britains Quiz
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, and to research the answersto the questions posed, see my hard-cover, all-color editions of Soldiers of Greater Britain(1893-1924), Armies of the World (1925-1941) and Regiments of All Nations (1946-1966).Note that… Read more
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BAVARIAN KINGS AND PRINCE REGENTS FROM 1864 – 1918 IN OLD LEAD SOLDIERS
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 figures are solid cast and very carefully decorated with many details. Thehorses are very elaborately produced hollow casts, in which even the usual holes that arise when casting a hollow… Read more
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RECONNAISSANCE
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 that the set titled “American Infantry Cavalry” was Made in Germany. The figures are similar to those discussed in Will Beierwaltes’ article on Feix. The mounted figures are hollowcast. The… Read more