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Nick agree that is an amazing image…and very clean and crisp as well.

Hoping for your quick recovery and a return to the hunt!

Fantastic set!! Nobody did camp life better then Heyde imho…and ensured such organizations such as staff officers and train Battalions were available. although I focus mainly on Britain’s, I really appreciate Heyde…..I just hope I can resist starting off in a new collecting area. ;)

Steve: I have that coronation coach, but for her fathers coronation! I know exactly how you feel about limited childhood budget and yet faced with a display of desired sets. For me as a kid it was buying L.W. Richards book “Collecting British Toy Soldiers1893-1918” and pouring over each set...

excellent article! and I really like how you laid out the site

Steve thanks! I am a Britains lead figure collector myself…but my collection is composed of all Britain’s British Empire or American sets, so no imperial nexus….but I couldn’t resist having at least Heyde set.

Don’t know if anyone else augments their collection with vintage German manufactured toy soldiers. This set of Prussian Dragoons, despite missing a few figures, is a nice example of Pre-war German toy making skill. At one time Germany was a big exporter of lead toy soldiers until a British...

I echo Sandmann’s words, amazing uniform and collection Reiner!!

Thank you Zeb!

Thank you caption and John!

Nick I have a few examples of each that I can throw in as well. By service and branch seems good like you said, cavalry uhlan etc

Fantastic! They are hard not to collect. The quality of Imperial photographers was excellent. How would the thread be organized by date, service, branch specialty.…in the photo section? What would the moderators prefer ?

I agree fully….it may well make good research thread….there are so many small details in photos that some sharp eyed collector will spot and then add to the collective knowledge bucket.

The Bundesarchive video clean up sounds like a really fun project! I find myself torn between collecting images or spending money to clean them up once I buy them….right now the collecting side is winning!

Your welcome…here is another taken in Tientsin China by a Japanese photographer. I am hoping to use photoshop at some point to clean it up a bit.

I have a strong interest in foreign forces operating in and around China during the last century, and so when this one came up recently on German eBay, I thought I would acquire it. Taken by a local Chinese photographer, a cabinet card size image which is usual, as unlike the Americans at that...

I have a strong interest in foreign forces operating in and around China during the last century, and so when this one came up recently on German eBay, I thought I would acquire it. Cabinet card size image which is usual, as unlike the Americans at that time in country, the majority of imperial...

Beautiful!

Thank you again John! And now at the Max trying not to get to heavy into imperial....just buying reference books

John thank you! It is not connected to a single soldier...but once I got a stein to this unit I started to build a collection of Wurttemberg items... the madness begins ;)