The Southeastern Toy Soldier Show is scheduled for August 9th at the South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201.
Visit the show and see, buy, or trade toy soldiers or other military miniatures from various periods of history. Also see a living history presentation by the 20th South Carolina Volunteer [...]
Has the high cost of gas got you down? Well if it does, consider either Sharing-A-Ride, or being a part of a Carpool to our Show. You’ll save some money and share some good conversations with like minded collectors and even make some new toy soldier friends. Send me an email, type [...]
No other American Dimestore figures have raised as much speculation over their evolution as a small group of early production Manoils known to collectors as “Hollow-Base.”
Figure in the center of my photo is a regular two hole base Manoil. It’s flanked by two hollow-base figures.
I theorize that since hollow-base castings were, and still are,
extensively used [...]
It’s July and historical miniature gaming’s biggest event is on schedule for July 24-27, when HISTORICON 2008, returns to the Lancaster Host Resort & Conference Center Lancaster, PA, USA, for four days of historical miniature gaming and events.
HISTORICON is so huge it was called: “mother of all wargaming conventions” by the Wall Street Journal, [...]
Boy Scout Signallers, Post war 1954 – 1959, set number 163, contained five Boy Scout figures with rotating arms holding semaphore signal flags that could rotate in a full circle to form any semaphore signal.
The Scouts in Post war sets wear olive-drab shirts and shorts, with brown belts, black knee socks, olive-drab Boy Scout [...]
