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…
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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…
Heyde figures originated in Dresden, Germany and are among the most prized in the world. The company produced figures mainly in the 48- and 60-mm…
McLoughlin Brothers, a major American producer of paper lithographed toys and games, wasfounded in 1857 by John McLoughlin but developed by his sons (aka “brothers”)…
Beau Geste Beau Geste was a 1939 American adventure movie, starring Garry Cooper, based on a 1924 novel by P.C.Wren. It was set in a…