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05-09-23, 12:49 PM | #167 |
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Cavendish Miniatures
65mm Lifeguard of the Household Cavalry Division. Another of the figures that Cavendish produced for the toursts. He has a plug-on right arm, allowing for other options such as a standard-bearer. A great quality figure (repainted)
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05-09-23, 12:55 PM | #168 |
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A close copy of the Cavendish Lifeguard, 68mm and probably by Charbens, another old English maker. He's pretty good but not as good - and he doesn't stand up well
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05-09-23, 02:37 PM | #169 |
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Two Crescent 75mm Lifeguards (repainted)
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05-10-23, 01:29 AM | #170 |
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Way back when, I had some of these exact fellows
They were given to me by our expat neighbor whose first husband was lost in the Battle of Britain. She later remarried a Yank.
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05-10-23, 04:23 AM | #171 |
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^ These are guardsmen made when Britains transferred manufacturing of the Herald figures to Hong Kong around the late 1960s. They were made from a PVC type material, as were many of the later ranges such as "Deetail", which led to many having bent weapons
I took this photo a while back to point up the differences - most of the figures made in China seem to have had the moulds re-worked, some much more than others. In this case you can see how the officer's face is different and some detail has been added to the fur of the bearskin. Also, many of the Hong Kong soldiers, knights, etc featured a plug-on base in a green plastic. The painting was also greatly simplified
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05-10-23, 04:57 AM | #172 |
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Louis Marx & Co
Magnificent 75mm Household Cavalry by US maker Marx, although these here were made by them in Swansea, Wales, and can be distinguished from US made figures by the type of plastic used - I believe all those made in the US were in hard plastic, whereas those in the UK were in an 'unbreakable' polythene These are by far the best looking of all and paint up really well - they're in a cream coloured plastic so can be painted either as Life Guards (red tunics, white plumes) or Blues & Royals (dark blue tunics, red plumes) The photos above show two different mouldings of the marching figure, one for a trooper and the other an officer with lanyards. I hadn't realised these were two different figures until recently. There is also a figure without breastplate. I shan't go into all of the permutations of uniform but there are very many - such as which soldiers wear a breastplate and which don't; the colours of horses and their sheepskin saddlecloths; odd regimental individuals such as the Farrier, who carries an axe and has a black plume - this is a really fascinating but separate study Officer without breastplate
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05-10-23, 05:58 AM | #173 |
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60mm Lone Star figure (centre) with two slightly smaller soldiers by a company known variously as GE MODELS, GEMODELS or GEM MODELS. These are very small compared to the Marx figures Lone Star was a very widespread toy figure brand in the 60's and, like Crescent Toys, they also made a lot of diecast big-guns as well as other vehicles. This Blues & Royals trooper is very well detailed, the Gem Models less so
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05-10-23, 06:40 AM | #174 |
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Charbens
This appears to be a Charbens 65mm plastic figure from an early lead hollowcast mould - not very accurate but it is 1940s-50s vintage. Repainted
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05-10-23, 06:49 AM | #175 |
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Timpo
Another very early (1950s) plastic from a hollowcast lead mould, so pretty basic - about 60mm
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05-10-23, 07:04 AM | #176 |
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Britains
Blues & Royals trooper from Britains' "Eyes Right" range - the best
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05-10-23, 07:19 AM | #177 |
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Britains/Herald
Britains moved production of their 'Herald' range to Hong Kong in the 1960s. After that the figures were more basically moulded and painted, but still great looking toy soldiers Britains always did make an effort to keep the uniform codes accurate too - which I was typically very fussy about as a kid
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05-10-23, 07:39 AM | #178 |
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Cherilea Toys
British maker Cherilea produced these 70mm troopers which were similar to the Marx ones although not copied (repainted)
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05-10-23, 09:11 AM | #179 |
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HILCO
John Hill & Co. produced these (unrestored) figures in the 1950s or 60s Copying was common in the world of toy soldiers back then and these show some examples: First is Hilco v Cherilea, then two more Hilco figures alongside identical poses by Marx
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05-10-23, 10:35 PM | #180 |
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Couldn't get too much info on this Gem....."Tin soldier ( brand? ) 54mm Crazy Horse Dancer." For their show they were coached ( sounds better than drilled ) by a real life Sgt Major.
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