We have a shop in town that sell off house clearence items which varies greatly in quality and type (ie bricker brac to junk ), I found these figures about 75mm/3" tall made from pure lead (they bend very easily at the ankles) glued to a hefty block of varnished wood .
The first job was to carefully remove them from the base (luckily they were not fixed to securely) and rebase them on some thin MDF . I'm going to repaint them , I think they look like French Chasseures 1870ish and they will be for display only as they are such an odd size and don't any of my other collections. I have no idea of the manufacturer but look home cast
Nice find Tony! They look like very nice castings, they remind me of the smaller Schneider figures, especially the shape of the base.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the red was a later repaint? They would appear to be French or Belgian light troops. And I now want to know who made them, and their age? Surely continental?
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