This charming man etc

 Recently Brian C sent me a photo of some Elastolin Swedish soldiers. He rightly guessed l would be interested to see these composition made , tricorne hatted , twentieth century toy soldiers. I never knew of them at all although I have some composition Elastolin Swiss circa 1970. I looked on eBay to see if any were available and quite a few were- at a price beyond me. However there was a cheaper broken figure available. There and then I decided to give him a good home.

Saturday night when I arrived I found a wee box from Sweden behind the door. It contained this-

I am delighted by my purchase and he now stands on my painting desk shelf in a place of honour.