I scored this pair for a song of-off that
there feebleBay the other day, thinking "They'll go well with that knight" (I have a knight!), but in
going to look for the knight A) found he was much smaller, softer and chunkier
and B) that I had another from this series, so, as is often the way, the post
grew from what might have been one collage into this - enjoy, loyal readers!
So my purchase, which was only a week or so
ago - they came yesterday; Two rather over-dressed or flauxy, foppish chaps
from the - vaguely - Napoleonic era, in all their finery trotting out to do
some hawking or handkerchief-dropping or some such? They would complement the
'Prince' from Exin Castillos or maybe
some of the Merten medieval court stuff.
Off to the 'unknown/unbranded pre-20th
century military' box for the knight I knew I had and found both another of the
40mm'ish ones and that the knight was actually a bit of a stumpy-runt! The 3rd
figure being in the same dense PVC Injectaplastic
(and JSP) use while the knight is
more of a silicon-rubber? I say that because . . .
. . . the 35/40mm European premiums of
Wellintonian types also go quite well with the riders, and also have that
Macau-sourced, via-Portugal, look about them! And bases in the style of the Wild
West we looked at recently. Mine are both Bonbon-marked Napoleon-brand
premiums (small sweets), but Nestle
had a set, Kinder have been credited
(pinch of salt there?) and Huilor as
well.
I seemed to take more shots of the old
figure than the two new ones - he was the only one who would stand-up before I
took the chains off! After removing the key-chains; I used to cut the loops off
as well, but that was when I was a philistine, now I just slip the ring out and
leave the key-rings in the bag with the figures.
The funny thing was the seller had them
listed separately, so it was 'shopping-cart and see what they look like
together when they turn-up', then, when they turned-up, I wondered if they
might be (from the colours) an old 1976 [1776] novelty opposing-pair, but after
finding the third I'm now just wondering how many more there are in the set
and/or; do colours change on the same figure? It's another rabbit-hole!
They would also probably go well with Spencer Smith as a bunch of foppish, Old
Etonian, staff officers or ADC's, wot-wot! And they will look good with those cake decoration copies of Airfix's Washinton's Army?