Help identifying Antique Swiss Wooden Soldiers circa 1940 (1 Viewer)

[swisshkg]

Hello everyone!
Would love any help identifying these Swiss wooden to soldiers I recently found from my fathers childhood. There are estimated to be from somewhere between 1935-45 and were in Switzerland. Any help with identity and value would be most appreciated.
thank you!

 

[theBaron]

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing these! I've never seen anything like them. They do have a charm about them. I wonder if they were only sold in a limited area around the place where they were manufactured. They look like they were cut out to a pattern, like jigsaw pieces.
Looks like the white horse is missing its back leg-compare it to the brown horse.
Was your father from Switzerland, or is it just that these came from there?

Prost!
Brad

 

[swisshkg]

Yes, my father was born in Wildegg, Switzerland in 1936 so these may have been made in Switzerland and would have been from the same time period. The white horse is missing a rear leg and the 11 soldiers directly to the right are missing the tops of the guns but everything else is still complete.

 

[DMNamiot]

Those are great! I have to say that they are unique I’ve never seen Swiss soldiers in wood before. I do own a nice German lancer that is wood from around WWI so seeing them is really cool! I can’t speak to value but since they were your fathers I would say priceless. Thanks for sharing these

Dave

 

[mikemiller1955]

I feel like I have seen these done in high gloss as ornaments on a Christmas tree somewhere...
but have no clue where I saw them...