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I'd say they are Senegalese in colonial French service based on the distinctive French-style guard on their bayonets. Egyptian uniforms were blue (white in summer), however I don't know anything about the details.

I called the figures "recasts" because they looked like repros made by an amateur, ie a hobbyist, rather than a commercial venture. For instance, the London Bridge version of the Guard in greatcoat figure has a very thin base, and is slightly smaller than the original Britains figure due to the...

I realized the initial question went unanswered: who is the maker? I think the answer is in your initial post from last December. The maker was Mr Christ himself.

These fellows are converted recastings of figures from Britains set 312, Grenadier Guards in winter overcoats (pic attached). Not sure where the heads originated, but the officer's right arm and the colour bearer's left arm are standard Britains castings or are recasts of these, and weren't...

I agree the seated figure has a different "look" than the distinctive Marlborough style. As to the Grenadier Guards, they were available as a single figure - C57 - in Marlborough's Individual Range. Marlborough were very good at making up custom orders from collectors, too.

I looked in my Marlborough catalogues. First picture: D57 Governor General's Bodyguard (6pc) I don't know who the marching Officer represents - at a guess he is from D60 Golden Gun of Baroda, the catalogue picture isn't clear enough to tell for sure. >Edit: Just looked through the Flickr...

They are a standard Britains figure that appeared in many large sets and featured in set 82 from 1897-1959. These reproductions represent the version of the figure as issued 1908-14 only - square-based, half-booted, and with a pack. The London Bridge unpainted casting is C-108 Guards Pioneer...

There are four figures described as "non-Britains" in the London Bridge catalogue - two Indians, and two Scots. They have a different ID number series than the Britains recasts: C-001 to C-004. The recasts start with C-101. The four don't really resemble any Britains figures. They are...

To add to the above reply. Tour first and second picture at the top show Highlanders in tropical dress, in second grade paint. The firing 'half-booted" Guards are from before 1933. They became full-trousered at that time, and the prone figures got a new, legs-apart sculpt. The marching Guard...

This is a picture of an early postwar example of set 201. There were two aides-de-camp, one one a grey horse, the other on a black horse.

Hi Tom. Sorry I've missed your posts until today - I rarely look at this Forum anymore due mainly to lack of activity on the subjects that I'm interested in. My paramount interest is Britains hollowcast figures, and their modern iterations made by Hocker and by Hiriart. The formerly prolific...

Tom, there is a Britains Collectors group on Facebook which often has hollowcast figure content. Your Hussar is from Britains set 12 11th Hussars, the 1903-40 version of that set. "Spindly horses" usually refers to second grade castings. These were simplified figures with fewer paint colours...

Second grade (simplified) paint, ie black trousers instead of blue with stripe. Foot Guards. This pose would never have had a "Coronation" colour for the base.

The figure you posted is one of the two Aides-de-Camp in that set, not an officer. That style of horse has become known as the ADC horse when used with other heads, as in the postwar version of set 28's officer.

Sort of hard to tell from the photo, but he's second grade casting (which explains the one-eared horse), either 1st Dragoons or 2nd Dragoon Guards. Both regiments had black plumes. As far as Farriers... Both Life Guard and Horse Guard Farriers wear blue tunics. Life Guard Farrier has a black...