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On a trip to London (UK) my parents had the great idea of bringing to me this awesome set of BRITAINS… one of the last produced treditional lead stes before they went “plastic”!
I was really pampered because I had been sick for quite a time.
Now, that picture in Facebook brought along a lot of reminiscences… just seen in an Auction in the USA… (not that I am going to bid at all…) I had the real thing at the time it was needed… and what is more… I played with them, my small brother (10 years gap) played with them, my sister’s young boy played with them… guess those Toy Soldiers delivered in spades!
Many many years later on a visit to my mother I inspected the remains of the lot… took them home, sprayed them black and repaint them all (of what was left), then once displayed again I detected a bit of lead rot… cleaned… varnished… tried to mend… whatever… sent finally to Bonham’s where James Opie put a price on them and said farewell to collect “antiques” forever…
I already had a lot of plastic, rubber and aluminium toy soldiers… but that box suddenly become the apex of my loot! I am glad I was so young that I did not thought for a second to “preserve them” or “collect them”… they went to war on the floor with unfurled colurs and the band gaily playing!
Sorry for the poor quality of the pics but they were really small and have not found others…
As a result you all know I was hooked on Toy Soldiers for life…