Collecting Toy Soldiers

 Back in the 1930's Elastolin made a small range of figures relating to the 7 Years War, there were nine foot poses of Prussian Grenadie...

 I went along to the Sandown Park Toy Fair last weekend and this is what I found: The Timpo Station Figures are fairly common but I've n...

 Another display has recently made it to the shelves, this time 1930's Composition figures in combat poses, mostly made in Germany but a...

 I've been going a bit overboard with the medievals this past year or so, to the detriment of collecting other historical periods, but I...

 This past year I embarked upon a review of how I store and display the unruly mass of toy soldiers accumulated in a largely haphazard way o...

 Among the finds at the car boot sale last weekend were these post war composition figures of the German Bundeswehr made by Elastolin, which...

 After the success I had on facebook with the identification of the Galloglass made by Oojah-Cum-Pivvy I thought I'd try the same approa...

 Volume 14 of Die Zinnlaube arrived recently, now only published once a year, this is the 2024/25 issue, 112 pages (including the cover) pri...

I went along to the London Toy Soldier Show back in March, but I'm only getting around to putting up the pictures now, It's been tha...

This rather nice pair of Hussars were made in Germany circa 1910/20 by Manzsoldaten, one of the minor makers of composition toy soldiers, an...

 I've always liked figures of Hussars and Lancers, light cavalry in general I suppose, and here are three examples of composition person...

This mounted knight stands 140mm from base to top of plume and was part of an early set of medieval figures produced in the 1920's by L...

An early birthday present to myself (because I'm worth it), "Les Petits Soldats de la Grande Guerre" has been out for while b...