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Are there ANY female members of the TS Forum? Even just one?

How about any women who collect toy soldiers? I know there are women video gamers, and women who collect figures/figurines. But I am not aware that there are any female toy soldier enthusiasts!???

Please correct me if Im wrong!

(BTW, the proprieter of this site does not count)
 
Interesting question. I have never met or even heard of a female collector (and I don't mean dealers). -- lancer
 
On the TSSD site there is one woman who posted pictures of her painted pirates under the what guys do with their stuff section. Never saw an actual female collector up close though.
 
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I believe this is the first movie short for the Three Stooges.
 

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Obviously there is Shannon. Apart from her there is "Bobby", aka Jeni Foster who used to be the editor of "Toy Soldier Collector" before ill health forced her replacement. I am sure there are others lurking out there, possibly under a masculine pseudonym? Can we be really sure that the Kilted Vampire IS wearing a kilt, or could it be a tartan mini skirt?
 
Good old HG Wells...he was very funny.


"LITTLE WARS is the game of kings - for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty - and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple - by girls of the better sort, and by a few rare and gifted women."


"A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and
for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books"



"Primitive attempts to realise the dream were interrupted by a great
rustle and chattering of lady visitors. They regarded the objects upon
the floor with the empty disdain of their sex for all imaginative
things"
 
I think one of the main reasons we collect toy soldiers is in relation to an interest in a certain period or periods of warfare throughout history, I am interested in the combat styles and uniforms of the 18th century and collect American Revolution K&C figures for example.
I don't know one woman in my family or circle of friends who has the slightest bit of interest in warfare modern or historical and I suspect this is the case across a majority of society.
So without that underlying interest in warfare etc thats why I think there are very very few female collectors of toy soldiers.
 
We had a female member of the forum, Samuel 08, but she has not posted since last year.
 
Off the top of my head I know of one female collector who collects only WWII King & Country, another who collects French-Indian War and Zulu with her son (her husband is not involved, it's a mom-son bonding thing and she is way into the movie 'Zulu'). Another collects knights-mostly Britains and K&C, another Ancient Egypt, and there are couples who collect together so they are out there but they do seem to be an anomaly. I know woman war-gamers too.
And I collect medical sets with nurses.
There are a handful of women on the board but they are definitely a tiny minority.
Regards,
 
AS a kid I had toy soldiers and never put them away, I just started calling them "military miniatures." I got into reenacting in the 1970s for the Bicentenial and later for the 125th-140th Civil War reenactments in the 80-90s. I never ran into any female collectors but plenty of female reenactors. So that was my dating pool. I married an NPS Ranger who worked at Gettysburg so at least she appreciates history and toy soldiers.

I have seen a few "groupies" at the wargamer tables at the Hobby Bunker.
 
My wife has a small collection of the K&C SOHK range and you can see these in the album on my profile page.

Jeff
 
Shannon Reuss said:
Off the top of my head I know of one female collector who collects only WWII King & Country, another who collects French-Indian War and Zulu with her son (her husband is not involved, it's a mom-son bonding thing and she is way into the movie 'Zulu'). Another collects knights-mostly Britains and K&C, another Ancient Egypt, and there are couples who collect together so they are out there but they do seem to be an anomaly. I know woman war-gamers too.
And I collect medical sets with nurses.
There are a handful of women on the board but they are definitely a tiny minority.
Regards,
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Hi Shannon,

Perhaps you might consider starting a "Ladies Corner" for female collectors.

Just a thought.

Best, Raymond.:)
 
Scott said:
Good old HG Wells...he was very funny.


"LITTLE WARS is the game of kings - for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty - and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple - by girls of the better sort, and by a few rare and gifted women."


"A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and
for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books"



"Primitive attempts to realise the dream were interrupted by a great
rustle and chattering of lady visitors. They regarded the objects upon
the floor with the empty disdain of their sex for all imaginative
things"
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He was right and he still is. At least he recognized the exceptions. :)

And yes, I tend to be "very severe upon my sex", but "I only speak as I find".

(Bonus points if anyone knows the source of the quotes. I know Ken and Ericka Osen do. :D)
 
Wells was being funny but he seemed to like the ladies and they liked him.

"In 1891 Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells, but left her in 1894 for one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins, whom he married in 1895. He had two sons with Amy: George Philip (known as 'Gip') in 1901 and Frank Richard in 1903.[8]

During his marriage to Amy, Wells had liaisons with a number of women, including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger[9] and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves,[8] whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West, by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior.[10] In spite of Amy Catherine's knowledge of some of these affairs, she remained married to Wells until her death in 1927.[8] Wells also had liaisons with Odette Keun and Moura Budberg.

"I was never a great amorist," Wells wrote in Experiment in Autobiography (1934), "though I have loved several people very deeply." "
 
I know there's a number of members of this forum who know of puptent also known as Lady puptent to me. She's ventured in to collecting both matte and glossy figures and sets with her preferance towards glossy. There's no doubt that Sir Pat Wade can attest to her taste and the number of outstanding figures and sets she's added to her collection giving her mate very strict instruction as to when he's allowed to play with them with although he's also amassed a find collection which I can say would be envied by many......The Lt.
 
Wendy said:
He was right and he still is. At least he recognized the exceptions. :)

And yes, I tend to be "very severe upon my sex", but "I only speak as I find".

(Bonus points if anyone knows the source of the quotes. I know Ken and Ericka Osen do. :D)
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Wendy,
A big welcome to the forum! Hope you enjoy it.
Jane Austen:rolleyes:
Mike
 
The Lt. said:
I know there's a number of members of this forum who know of puptent also known as Lady puptent to me. She's ventured in to collecting both matte and glossy figures and sets with her preferance towards glossy. There's no doubt that Sir Pat Wade can attest to her taste and the number of outstanding figures and sets she's added to her collection giving her mate very strict instruction as to when he's allowed to play with them with although he's also amassed a find collection which I can say would be envied by many......The Lt.
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From what I have seen it is a very impressive collection indeed.

Jeff
 
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