A very rare Set 132 British Army Display:

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A very rare Set 132 British Army Display:
comprising General Officer on Grey Sway-backed Horse (1), Royal Artillery Mountain Battery with Mules, Mounted Officer and Men (16 items including Gun in three sections) (lacks ammunition), Royal Field Artillery - Gun Team at Walk with Officer and four Seated Men for Bucket Seats of Gun and Limber (bucket seat missing from gun and one outriders whip arm missing), Mounted Officer and four seated Men (13), Royal Army Medical Corps Ambulance (7), The Royal Scots Greys (7 Troopers) (one head replaced with dragoon head, no officer), 11th Hussars - five Troopers and Officer (6), 7th Dragoon Guards - seven Troopers and Officer (8), 12th Lancers - eight Troopers and Officer (9), 2nd Life Guards - eight Troopers and Officer (9), The Royal Horse Guards - five Troopers and Officer (6), Band of the Line including rare Bombardon Player (6), fourteen later Band of the Line, The Coldstream Guards including Standing Officer with Binoculars (23), The Seaforth Highlanders (14), The Royal Welch Fusiliers with Goat Mascot (16) and The East Kent Regiment/The Buffs (12) (all references to Set 132 indicate the inclusion of this regiment. However, the twelve figures in this set have yellow facings consistent with the Middlesex Regiment), in original paper-covered wooden display box with three layers of trays, circa 1906 (P-F, most pieces with damage, arms, sword, legs bases and helmet spikes missing, box P, lacks label and two tenoned end sections of wooden lid, trays F, apparently complete) --box 35in. x 19in. x 6in. (89cm. x 48.25cm x 15cm.)

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Lot Essay

The description of the contents of the set vary, as no complete example is known to have survived.
The Gamages 1906 catalogue and J.Wallis, Armies of the World lists the contents; J. Opie, The Great Book of Britains, indicates that he has not encountered a complete Set 132.
The make up of the set probably comprised individual set numbers being amalgamated together. The bracketed numbers indicated in the description are the number of items in each section. The total number of items contained in the set is 152; also included are 14 items not attributed to this set.

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