Any determination about My Parade Toy soldiers? (1 Viewer)

[Elvis031267]

Hi fellow collectors,
I Bought this lot because I really like the look of them.
But when i came home i realized that non of them are marked. So now I am not sure what they exactly are.
Does anyone know more about the maker and year of production.
Kind regards
Elvis

 

[theBaron]

Hi, Elvis! These are also cast from molds that originated with Schneider Bros.
Prost!
Brad

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

This appears to be a 1920ies box (as the pattern of the box suggests). Mold design is certainly 20-30 years older.

 

[theBaron]

This appears to be a 1920ies box (as the pattern of the box suggests). Mold design is certainly 20-30 years older.

Nice! I don't have any boxes for the ones I have, nor any of the original handles or the clamps.

As far as the mold design is concerned, I don't know that it changed at all, for the whole life of the firm. Those who made copies or reproductions did use other designs for their molds, though the milling of the figures remained the same. Herr Höhmann’s molds were excellent, and they produce nice, crisp castings. He was a real craftsman. The ones that Castings sold were of middling quality, and the castings that come out of them are soft in their detail.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

Nice! I don't have any boxes for the ones I have, nor any of the original handles or the clamps.

As far as the mold design is concerned, I don't know that it changed at all, for the whole life of the firm. Those who made copies or reproductions did use other designs for their molds, though the milling of the figures remained the same. Herr Höhmann’s molds were excellent, and they produce nice, crisp castings. He was a real craftsman. The ones that Castings sold were of middling quality, and the castings that come out of them are soft in their detail.

Prost!
Brad

Brad, this is very true the quality of those molds where medium at best. But those companies, especially like Paul Müller of Dresden held an arsenal of semi finished brass molds or stock pieces like farm animals, background scenes, weapons and the like, ready for companies like Heyde, Heinrichsen etc. If you where in need of a quick addition to your mold park, you would ask companies like Müller for those semi finished molds to be refined with detail and character to suit your product line. Müller was operating a Gravir- und Ciseliranstalt which catered for all kinds of metal work needs. Doing the sale of semi finished products, or/and customising the molds was his job. Not the production and sale of Toy Soldiers. So if you where Heinrichsen and I would be Heyde, we might had ordered the same "blank" mold from Müller with (or without) custom modifications. When useing the molds we would both add our own companies parts like head casts and weapons. In result we would tease collectors a 100 years later about the origins of a certain Heyde or Heinrichsen Toy Soldier.
Müller might have added (engraved) a skirt into your ordered mold and a short pair trousers into my mold. And depending on both our cash flow polish and refine the mold further.
The figures will still look very similar and I hear the "experts" say "Typical Heyde style or no could be Heinrichsen as well" but actually it is all Müller - isn´t it? I prost to that!
I simply allow a Toy Soldier to look beautiful first - discussing its origin remains a secondary task.

 

[centocinque]

Well, I have same from Babette Schweitzer, it looks this was a very common mould at the time, you may even have the moles from Dunkin's.