The History of Toy Soldiers by Luigi Toiati

Author:Luigi Toiati
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Military
ISBN: 9781473897311
Publisher: Pen and Sword/Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2019-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 10.16: The beautiful Agincourt series by Roy-Selwyn-Smith.

Other miscellaneous figures had been produced over the years, some out of the official catalogue, such as Buck Rogers, or the ‘T’ series sold only at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, in 75mm, some of them being today in great demand; of the same size there was also a lifeboatman. Again, we have the humorous ‘Lambeth Walk’ dancers of the 1930s, or the relatively recent discovery (c. 1986 by Wade and Dew) of ‘Toy Town’, probably a prototype series of sprayed ‘toy toy soldiers’, inspired by children’s books, very valued today as perhaps the rarest items of them all. Probably only six sets were experimentally made for the US market, but remained at London’s Walthamstow factory: the spray-painted figures wore black bearskins, white trousers and crossed belts, their jackets varying from red to blue, grey and yellow. Poses were either marching or at attention, the officer riding a very nice white-dotted black pony. There was also Snow White, football teams and a racing series, along with Boy Scouts and Salvation Army. Unfortunately, no army saved Britains’ lead models from the brutishness of the times, even if their models remained as valued as ever in both plastics (to be examined later) and the new die-cast metal armies (from 1973), to both of which more books have been dedicated.

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