Saturday, 28 November 2020

Sprucing up the painting corner and a mystery purchase.

 Some photos of my painting corner with added pictures, an enjoyable podcast being listened to as I paint and two photos of a toy soldier mystery I bought in a job lot recently. It has wires connecting the horsemen and lugs to keep them together. I have never seen such a thing before, can anyone identify it?






13 comments:

  1. By the look of the artillerry head dress and the joining together this looks like part of a gun team - any makers name or marks?
    Occasionally figures are joined together if they were part of an animated fixed display in shop windows etc.

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  2. Royal Horse artillery chaps to rebuild (a lot)
    H P Lovecraft is always a good read (or listen in your case) just so long as you don't start believing his less than savoury thoughts about race!

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    1. Very true re HPL. Lots of work to do. I must look for photos of the original.

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  3. They do look like RHA.

    I like the retro looking radio.

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    1. RHA indeed. The retro style radio was a Christmas gift some years ago and is very handy in the kitchen.

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  4. Yes RHA I would say - a good find , you don't seem to come across them much .

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    1. I was taken with them and I may just display them, we shall see...

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  5. Yup. Royal Horse Artillery. Britains always wired their limber teams together. I don't know if others did but I suspect so.

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  6. Tradgardmastare,

    They look like RHA ... who are based about a mile from my house. The driver sits on the left-hand horse of the pair, and carries his whip in the right hand. The teams have three pairs of matched horses.

    All the best,

    Bob

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