For people adoring playing and collecting toy soldiers (Elastolin, Lineol, Durso, Britains, Marx, Timpo, Starlux and many others). I am presenting images of vintage toy soldiers as a historical curiosity without endorsement of any political ideology and propaganda of war.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
'A Soldier's Wife;Or, Sunshine and Shadow’, 1890
Lithograph after Cress Woollett. Published by the 'Christian Globe.', 1890.
The lithograph depicts a vicar consoling a grieving woman who is missing her husband. whilst her child plays with toy soldiers. A portrait of a soldier hangs on the wall behind.
From the collection of National Army Museum (London, UK). https://www.nam.ac.uk/
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