Yeah, not Present Arms!, who's not an English maker, in any case. Present Arms! was started by Fred Klotz, and included sets depicting the Imperial German Army in 1914. His series was "Off to the Front! August 1914". The sets depicted the army marching off, with civilians cheering them on. Fred based many of the poses on photos taken at the time.
One set of civilian spectators included a pastor, but he was dressed in an alb and stole, with a biretta.
This figure looks like it's supposed to be a chaplain, but it doesn't look much like a German army chaplain of the time. His coat is too dark, for one thing, and the chaplains didn't wear the dog collar. Their frock coats were field gray, with a single row of buttons down the front, and with a stand collar, or a stand-and-fall collar. They also wore a crucifix on a long chain around their necks, which was hooked onto a button on the frock coat so that it rested breast-high. They also wore a small cross pin or badge on their caps, sometimes on the crown, with the cockades below, or between the cockades. They didn't usually wear belts with the frock, or lace on their cuffs.
Here are some images to illustrate:
I do have to concede that I don't have any info on what the chaplain's uniform looked like before 1910, when the field grey uniform was first implemented. Not in Pietsch's "Formation and Uniform History", nor in the cigarette card album, "Uniforms of the Old Army. That makes me curious to do some research on that. It might have been blue, but it might have been black, like a civilian clergyman. In Frederick the Great's army, that was how the chaplains dressed.
It might be a chaplain from another European army. I did find an image of a Swiss chaplain circa 1894, whose uniform is similar in cut and color, though not exactly the same:
But it might be from the Belgian or Dutch armies, for example, or the Danish.
But I'm fairly confident it's not German, and I can't say who made it.
I don't know if that helps, but maybe it gets the ball rolling.
Prost!
Brad
