Britains and Other Interesting Toy Soldiers
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Britains and Other Interesting Toy Soldiers

Themes and Highlights from Sixty Years of Collecting

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Britains and Other Interesting Toy Soldiers

Themes and Highlights from Sixty Years of Collecting

About this book

Explores the lifelong passion of collecting traditional toy soldiers, offering insights, anecdotes, with over four hundred photographs that showcase a sixty-year journey of dedication and expertise in the hobby. John Franklin has been collecting traditional toy soldiers for over sixty years, mostly Britains but, as the title suggests, including other interesting additions. In this book he shares some of the in-depth knowledge gained through experience and countless hours of careful research, but most of all the passion and enthusiasm for his hobby. He explains how he was inspired to collect soldiers, like so many, in early boyhood and how a hobby grew into an obsession. The various chapters then examine themes he followed in his collecting, such as Britains Special Painting Orders and Indian Army Pipe Bands for example, or address questions regarding the manufacture or identity of specific sets that he has researched or, in some cases, is still seeking the answer to. It is packed with anecdotes, useful technical information and helpful advice for the collector but it is above all a proud tour of inspection of a sixty-year labour of love. Over four hundred photographs, show much of the author's magnificent collection in a parade of miniature pomp and splendour.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781399075404

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. FOREWORD
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER 1 BRITAINS SPECIAL PAINTINGS
  8. CHAPTER 2 INDIAN ARMY PIPE BANDS
  9. CHAPTER 3 BRITAINS RFA GUN TEAM AT THE HALT SET 317
  10. CHAPTER 4 CAVALRY BANDS
  11. CHAPTER 5 TOY SOLDIER COLOURS
  12. CHAPTER 6 BRITAINS PARADE BLACK WATCH
  13. CHAPTER 7 SOME BRITAINS LARGE BOXES
  14. CHAPTER 8 INDIAN ARMY COLOUR PARTIES
  15. CHAPTER 9 AUSTRALIANS OR COLONIALS AT THE PRESENT
  16. CHAPTER 10 BANDS OF SCOTTISH REGIMENTS
  17. CHA PTER 11 BRITAINS WHISSTOCK BOXES
  18. CHAPTER 12 THE POLISH ENIGMA
  19. CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN ARMY
  20. CHAPTER 14 MR H.L. POTTIER SMITH AND HIS COLLECTION
  21. CHA PTER 15 FINALE BRITAINS
  22. POSTSCRIPT
  23. Backcover Page