Collecting Old Toy Soldiers by Ian McKenzie

Book - Collecting Old Toy Soldiers by Ian McKenzie

The boxes of metal soldiers which, until the advent of plastic after the Second World War, played such a considerable part in the lives of most young (and not-so-young) boys' lives now find themselves elevated to the exalted rank of Antiques. The pennies they originally cost are now translated into as many pounds, such has been the immense interest in them over the past twenty years.
lan McKenzie, a lifelong collector, presents here the most serious and comprehensive study available of the toy (as distinct from its younger brother, the model) soldier. He traces their development from the early 'flats' of paper and tin, through the transitional semi-solids to the fully rounded figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; nor are wooden and composition figures neglected. All the main manufacturing countries are here: France, Germany, USA, Britain, as are the individual manufacturers about whom the author has gathered an unprecedented amount of information so necessary for identification and dating
In addition, lan McKenzie charts a course through the complications of Britains' figures during the classic years of that company's output and has added invaluable chapters on conservation and restoration, building a collection, where to buy toy soldiers and where to see the great permanent exhibitions.
 

ISBN 0-7134-3036-2

Condition - Good - outer cover marked sun damaged as pictured

Book Title - Collecting Old Toy Soldiers

Author - Ian McKenzie

Format- Hardback

Language -English

Publication Year -1975

Number of Pages - 155 Pages

(483A)