A LARGE GROUP OF TOY SOLDIERS OR CAMPAIGN MAP-MARKERS IN THE FORM OF PAINTED FRENCH INFANTRY

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WELLINGTON, THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND WATERLOO, a commemoration in the 200th anniversary year of the battle of Waterloo (Lots 1-50)

A LARGE GROUP OF TOY SOLDIERS OR CAMPAIGN MAP-MARKERS IN THE FORM OF PAINTED FRENCH INFANTRY

CIRCA 1810-14

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A LARGE GROUP OF TOY SOLDIERS OR CAMPAIGN MAP-MARKERS IN THE FORM OF PAINTED FRENCH INFANTRY
CIRCA 1810-14
Comprising one hundred and six cast lead soldiers each with shako, hand painted with blue uniforms with red trim, the top of each shako with painted letters and numbers denoting rank and units

來源

Acquired from the Estate of Richard Mellon Scaife, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.

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拍品專文

A small group of approximately fourteen near identical figures are in the Brown University Collection, Providence, Rhode Island (formerly the property of Ms. Anne S.K. Brown). One of the Brown University figures retains a small flag placed in a hole in the top of its shako, a feature shared with a number of the present figures that have similarly placed holes which must originally have been intended for miniature unit standards.

A very similar set representing the 22nd (Corsican) Light Infantry, who Bonaparte had served with in 1792, was given by the Emperor and Empress Marie-Louise to their son, Napoléon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the King of Rome, in 1812. See Jean Nicollier, Collecting Toy Soldiers, Charles E. Tuttle 7 Co., 1968.

CIRCA 1810-14

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