MILITARIA, BADGES, MEDALS,
MAGAZINES & POSTCARDS
Britain's
Original Britain's figures, medical corps, mule teams, 4.7 howitzers, naval field guns, Grenadier Guards, Seaforth Highlanders, Zulus, Bombay Lancers, Skinner's Horse, Bikanier Camel Corps, French Foreign Legion, Zouaves, American Civil War, West Indians, South Australian Horse, Scots Greys, Hussars, Lancers, Fusiliers, Life Guards, Imperial Yeomanry, City Imperial Volunteers, and many, many others.
Soldier Collection
Lead soldiers, military figures, soldier books, battle prints, uniform postcards and militaria, are now on display at La Preghiera, situated in Calzolaro, near Umbertide, just north of Perugia, Umbria, Italia.
World of Model Soldiers
The book, almost published in 1979, is now on this site. History and details of the Soldier Shop in Lambeth, London, near the Imperial War Museum. Details of figures made for the National Army Museum as well as the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
1. Early Model Soldiers2. Model Soldiers from 1800 to 1939
3. Model Soldiers Since World War II
4. Current Figures Up To 20 mm
5. The 25 mm To 35 mm Range of Figures
6. The 54 mm Range in Great Britain
7. The 54 mm Range in the Rest of the World
8. The Larger Figures
9. Civilian Figures
10. Making Your Own Model Soldiers
11. Painting Your Own Model Soldiers
Origins of the Species
The first examination of the illustrative evidence used by William Britain and his workforce when creating their famous range of figures some hundred year's ago in North London. Each figure and accompanying artwork, taken from original contemporary sources.
"A unique addition to the fascinating study of the original toy soldiers".
Soldiers' Soldiers
Full listings of Tunstill's range of Soldiers' Soldiers figures produced between 1977-1986 in Lambeth, London. Several hundred figures of the Victorian full dress period. Including Foot Guards, Highlanders, Line infantry,Royal Marines, Corps and Artillery.
Militaria and Medals
Military objects, Second World War gas masks, First World War lancer belts, badges, buttons, military decorations, from a variety of conflicts, WW2 arm bands, webbing, haversacks, helmets, caps, berets etc.
We've also found almost 300 WWII British War Medals, unissued, still in their waxed paper slips, in the original sealed boxes. Sold off by the War Office in the 1960's.
Vanity Fair Prints
Books and Magazines
Military Modelling, Airfix, Navy and Army Gazette, Toy Soldier Newsletter, Old Toy Soldier News, BMSS Bulletin, Guidon, Texas Military History, Soldier, The Great War, World War II, Arquebusier, Agrupacion, Sword and Lance, Spartan, etc etc.
Military Prints
Sketches, drawings and illustrations by Simpkin, Payne, Marrion, Fosten, Stadden, Mattania, Burnett, Caton Woodville, Lovett, Stansell, Lady Butler, Elizabeth Thompson, Gibb, Charlton, Holloway, Feller, Stewart, George, Charlton, Ward and others, all taken from contemporary sources, books, magazines, music sheets, postcards etc.
Now some 500 of the worlds finest depictions of the British Army on line.
Most of the units of Greatest Army the World had ever seen examined in detail by contemporary artists.
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Postcards, Cigarette Cards
Here are Gale and Polden, Bamforth, Stadden and other postcards.
Players, Wills, Ogdens, Carreras, Churchman, Phillips, Taddy and others.