Whilst sorting out my collection of moulds I came across this old one I'd forgotten I had . I don't remember were it came - probably from ebay and I don't think I've ever tried casting from it , so I thought I would have a go . This is the result a small (20mm?) Lancer the the figure above it is a 25mm Napoleonic Prince August figure for scale .
Here is a better close up of the figure , it looks perhaps French ?? ,I need to clean him up and investigate more . Sadly he is of interest only as he does not match any on my existing collections .
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I did a bit of research and found this from something I posted about several months ago ,
There he is in the bottom right , this is from the Henry C. Schiercke catalogue from the 1930s (?) . I think the moulds must have come in various sizes as I have some of these moulds/figures in 54mm and 70mm (ish) .
Very nice little figure, but yes the size is a problem, hard to fit in with most collections.
ReplyDeleteYes a a curio only I'm afraid.
DeleteInteresting, the catalogue says “any boy or girl could turn out 100 figures per hour working three or four moulds …” I wonder how many (American) girls did do something as ‘dangerous’ as this?
ReplyDeleteMight work if you doubled the base thickness? Just a thought.
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