ebay toy soldier category question (1 Viewer)
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Pre-70's (at least in Britains case) were still being made of lead and hollowcast), so that could be the reason.
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My guess is that it's just a good halfway point for toys. The Toy industry has really expanded since the 70's, and then you have everything before the 70's. Just a guess.
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There is a bit of a gap between the classic period of toy soldiers, which can be said to have come to a close when Britain stopped making their original hollowcast line, and the revival of toy soldier style figures towards the end of the 70s and into the 80s, with the rise of the lines that we know today.
It's not a clear break, of course. Those who made figures that were intended to be painted as military models rather than as toys operated right through this gap. Bill Imrie and Clyde Risley, Jack Scheid, and Charles Stadden, John Tassel, Russell Gammage, were some makers, to name a few, who were making figures since the end of WWII and the last of them passed away in the first decade of this century. And as far as toys go, Mignot also operated through that time. And there's a host of smaller makers, almost cottage industries, hobbyists who took up casting, and sculpting, and sold small numbers of figures through the mail or at shows.
But there was a definite trailing off by the end of the 60s, and a multiplication of lines starting around 10 years later or so.
Prost!
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It's not a clear break, of course. Those who made figures that were intended to be painted as military models rather than as toys operated right through this gap. Bill Imrie and Clyde Risley, Jack Scheid, and Charles Stadden, John Tassel, Russell Gammage, were some makers, to name a few, who were making figures since the end of WWII and the last of them passed away in the first decade of this century. And as far as toys go, Mignot also operated through that time. And there's a host of smaller makers, almost cottage industries, hobbyists who took up casting, and sculpting, and sold small numbers of figures through the mail or at shows.
But there was a definite trailing off by the end of the 60s, and a multiplication of lines starting around 10 years later or so.
Prost!
Brad