Wednesday, 23 June 2021

17th Century personalities


Got a bit of a bargain off eBay , a dozen Morkarex figures , usually these figures are sold singularly on French eBay , but these where sold as a lot from a dealer in the U.K. at a very reasonable price . Being French I've had to Google to find who half of the people were . Some are more useful than others but all will be appearing on the tabletop in one guise or other.

 

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  1. Great looking personality/command figures!
    Michael

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  2. Great buy, loads of potential here, looking forward to seeing them painted.

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  3. Very nice. My friend Scott has quite a few of these figures and they paint up really nicely.

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    1. Yes seeing they where given away with coffee they are surprisingly good .

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  4. Excellent find Tony! Mokarex are beautifully sculpted and they paint up really well! I can't wait to see them on your tabletop!

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    1. Yes very impressed only found about their existence recently .

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  5. These are great - I used sometimes to visit my grandfather in Paris when I was a kid, and I remember these things being in the kitchen drawers, in bowls on the sideboard, on the front edges of the bookshelves, all over the place. We are talking 60 years ago here - I guess they drank a lot of coffee in my grandfather's house. I was fascinated by them, though I had very little idea who most of them were. I'm astounded they are still around - that's a marvellous find. It never occurred to me that anyone could paint them, of course!

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    1. They seem plentiful on eBay - mainly French sellers and vary in price - maybe something to do with scarcity of individual models perhaps ? .

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