Sundays Napoleonics 💣💥🇫🇷⚔️

10cm composition figures of Waterloo soldiers produced by Durso (Belgium). Some bronze figurines depicting Napoleon produced by unknown makers. The book placed on the background is the Napoleon from Corsica to St. Helena (1900, Hansa-Verlag : Hamburg). The book contains 189 engravings by Meissonnier, David, Vernet, Delaroche, Gerome, Gerard, Gros and Steuben.

WW1 British postcard 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏇🏇🏇

A cavalry charge ...

Britains Farm Toys Catalogue 2024 🚜🚜🚜

In 2021, Britains celebrated 100 years as Europe’s oldest specialist in agricultural toys and collectibles. Britains offers a full range of 1/32 diecast farm models including tractors, implements, vehicles and accessories, allowing children to build their farm, as well as constantly refreshing and updating its collection for Britains enthusiasts.

The Britains Farm Toys Catalogue 2024 (44 pages) is available here: 

Dark years: Elastolin figures of Hitlerjugend, Jungmaedelbund, Bund deutscher Mädel and Jungvolk 🥁🥁🥁

In 30s Elastolin (Germany) produced 70 mm composition figures of youth paramilitary units: Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend), Jungvolk (pre-teen counterpart of the Hitler Youth)and BdM (female counterpart of the Hitler Youth). You can also find Baldur von Schirach,the leader of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940, among these figures.

SMS Deutschland from Hess 🌊⚓️🧜⛴️🐋

The Hess company was founded in 1826 in Nuremberg(Germany). Considered one of the oldest tin toy manufacturers. Tin toy railways, ships, toy cars with flywheels were produced. 1941 was the end of the company. This tinplate warship named "Deutchland" is an excellent example of how the toy industry reacted to technical innovations. The ship was produced from 1910 to 1920 and designed as a floor runner with clockwork drive (Length 21 cm, width 8 cm, height 10.5 cm). You can also notice some Elastolin Kriegsmarine soldiers from 30s.

Old photo with Elastolin soldiers from 30s

Old photo from 30s portrays German kids playing with Elastolin composition political figures of SA and HJ members.(Link).

Karl Bub Moderner Großtank 912

This tinplate clockwork tank is presented in the Karl Bub (Germany) 1935 catalog. It seems that Karl Bub engineers were inspired by the British WW1 Mark II tank design. The tank is accompanied by 7 cm Elastolin compositon soldiers from 30s.