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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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,…
My initial article regarding the series of embossed die cut paper soldiers produced by the French firm Hachette & Cie appeared in Old Toy Soldier,…
Introduction An eighteen-page John Hill & Co (Metal Toys) Ltd. catalogue dated January 1950 has recently beendiscovered in Australia. Listing toy soldiers, cowboys and Indians,…
Association Football, the formal term for Soccer, has had its fair share of recognisable characters over its long history and in the early 1970s a…
Back to School? Schoolrooms – good or bad memories for all of us? Maybe that question is how or why “kids in school” ended up…
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…