Category: Fall 2024
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December Auction Preview
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TOY SOLDIERS – DECEMBER 13, 2024, 10 AM EST. Read more
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Sporting Figures – A Herculean Olympic Collecting Challenge
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, Antiquités Brocante HORS SÉRIE 2024, pp 79- 84) in which he sets out some of the sporting figures that could be used to replay events in the games. In an… Read more
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RE-VISITING THE SOLDIERS OF HACHETTE & CIE
My initial article regarding the series of embossed die cut paper soldiers produced by the French firm Hachette & Cie appeared in Old Toy Soldier, Volume 39, Number 2, Summer 2015. My collection at that time consisted of four out of the twelve sets of the embossed die cut figures and acomplete set of the… Read more
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Editorial
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 end of my 5th year as Editor of this magazine. It has been a great honour and pleasure to follow in the footsteps of Norman Joplin and previous editors who… Read more