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Model Soldiers

WY Carman

Collecting model soldiers, like collecting

dolls, has a two-fold appeal to the collector.

Not only is he acquiring antiques or future

antiques, which are of historical and socio¬

logical interest, but he is also building up a

collection of objects of considerable emotive

impact—and this quality is particularly strong

for the collector who is also a war-gamer.

This book, however, is intended more for

the ‘non-combatant’ collector and, therefore,

includes a preponderance of the older antique

and potentially antique figures. The author

does, however, have a strong awareness and

appreciation of the modern connoisseur

figures; pieces painstakingly produced today

to a very high standard of artistry. The histori¬

cal development is, therefore, traced up until

the present day, both in the introduction and

in the comprehensive range of figures—taken

almost entirely from the author’s own collec¬

tion-used in the colour plates.

W. Y. Carman,

f.s.a.,

F.R.Hist.s., before join¬

ing the staff of a military museum in 1950,

had engaged in military uniform research as

well as the commercial production of flat tin

soldiers and the larger solid historical figures,

and in 1935 helped found the British Model

Soldier Society, of which he is a life Vice-

President.

(For other titles in this series see back flap)

Jacket: King Caractacus (O. Gottstein) c. 1936: British

general officer (Stadden) c. 1960. (See page 15.)

ISBN: 0-529-04684-9

Model Soldiers