The two privates in the trio you identify as Household Cavalry have turbans and darker faces than the officer, so I don't think so. A UK dealer I often buy from says Asset, but it is true that so far I haven't spotted them on the Asset site; so the search continues. Can you identify the Askaris...
Asset have been trading since 1996 and in this time grown from two figures made for a Police Benevolent Fund to a range of over 700.
Based in North Harrow Middlesex the company is run by Anne and Colin Randall who manuface and produce all aspects of the process bar the initial making of the...
The blue chaps on the right have some characteristics suggesting Royal Marines & others suggesting Artillery officers but they may not be either. Baffling.
The Household Cavalry chaps look like Britains, but so many makers produced similar models: the African Askaris & officer don't match the Britains versions in my collection, likewise the Legionnaires.
The fact they were sold at the Tower might ACcount for the fact that it was described as a Beefeater which it clearly isn't: I'd love to track down the other figures.
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