HIRIART January 2015 Delivery (1 Viewer)

[ucla1967]

The second and final part of my 2014 order, with 67 sets, was shipped from Montevideo on Friday, January 16th. The expected arrival in California is Thursday January 22nd. Guillermo sent me a photo of his dad, Jaime Hiriart, showing him with my order as he waits for the FedEx pickup. Although I have been dealing with Hiriart for more than 10 years, this is the first time I have seen a photo of him. Jaime started making wooden toy soldiers in the 1960s and evolved into making 54mm, glossy metal toy soldiers, inspired by Britains, over the following decades. I believe he is, for all intents and purposes, retired; Guillermo carries on with the family business.

 

[Buster]

Mike, looks like you'll be in for a very busy day this Thursday, and probably for a few days after, opening and inspecting all those great new Hiriart sets ..... I'm sure you'll enjoy every minute of it. :wink2::smile2:

B.

P. S. belated Happy Birthday ..... hope you had a great day! :salute::

 

[ucla1967]

Mike, looks like you'll be in for a very busy day this Thursday, and probably for a few days after, opening and inspecting all those great new Hiriart sets ..... I'm sure you'll enjoy every minute of it. :wink2::smile2:

B.

P. S. belated Happy Birthday ..... hope you had a great day! :salute::

Thanks Buster. It is always a great deal of fun to receive those orders and to subsequently distribute them to the southern California collectors at Bob Walker's house.

Thank you also for the birthday greeting. Jean and I ate at one of my favorite Italian restaurants, Cafe Allegro in La Vern, and then my son and granddaughter spent the week end with us. What could be better than that?

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

Well, the order arrived Thursday as scheduled, but I wasn't here to receive it nor was my wife. Although it required a signature, I left a note for the FedEx driver who was kind enough to leave it on my front porch. To digress for a moment, I was on jury duty in Superior Court and dodged a bullet. They wanted jurors for a 90 day trail and it was not an acceptable excuse that you didn't want to serve on a trail of that duration. Fortunately, I am scheduled for two cataract surgeries in March and did not have to go into that jury pool and was dismissed. I am familiar with the case which involved a drunk female driver who was driving at high speed the wrong way on the freeway here in Diamond Bar at 4 AM. She killed six people and had previous DUI convictions. The defense did not want me on that jury.

Back to toy soldiers: What a mess I make going through these orders. The Styrofoam sticks to everything and I have to keep a vacuum cleaner close by, but I have to be careful not to vacuum up any of my granddaughter's little toys. My dog Kassie always keeps a close eye on what I am doing or probably wonders what in the heck I am doing.

 

[ucla1967]

This is a Hiriart double set 1087 PRINCESS PAT'S LIGHT INFANTRY, CANADA for Bob.

 

[ucla1967]

This is a special commission double set for Bob of the IMPERIAL RUSSIAN LIFE GUARD HUSSARS, 1914.

 

[ucla1967]

Forgot this one.

 

[aujj65]

What a great start with these rather splendid uniforms! ^&cool.......going to be another great thread Mike! {sm3}

Jeff :salute::

 

[ucla1967]

What a great start with these rather splendid uniforms! ^&cool.......going to be another great thread Mike! {sm3}

Jeff :salute::

Thanks Jeff. The uniforms are striking. I hope so.

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

This is Bob's IMPERIAL RUSSIAN LIFE GUARDS HUSSARS BAND, 1914. They have red rather than white plumes. The last photo is Bob's five figure add-on set so that his band will have 14 figures: leader, drum horse, and 12 musicians.

 

[ucla1967]

Set 1185 LEGION ETRANGERE FRANCAISE TIMBALIER, 1923 is for Alan.

 

[ucla1967]

Fred ordered set 1242 THE 13TH HUSSARS, BRITAIN.

 

[ucla1967]

This is set 1220 DEUTSCHES AFRIKA KORPS ordered by Joe. It includes a Panzer II, a PAK 35/36 anti-tank gun with crew, a motorcycle sidecar with an MG42 machine gun, and a Rommel personality figure. I removed only some of the shipping packing to reveal the set.

 

[ucla1967]

This is set 1218 BATALLON FLORIDA de INFANTERIA No 1, URUGUAY ordered by Fred. I also ordered the same set, but with two extra men.

 

[ucla1967]

This is a double set plus one extra man of 1037 SOVIET HONOR GUARD for Mark.

 

[ucla1967]

This is set 1128 ZOUAVES D'ORAN, L'ARMEE D'AFRIQUE for Andreas.

 

[ucla1967]

This is set 1059 ROYAL AIR FORCE WITH GLOSTER METEOR for Marc who is a pilot and collections aviation themed toy soldiers.

 

[ucla1967]

This is set 1236 KAISER CUIRASSIERS ordered by Collin.

 

[ucla1967]

John ordered this special double set with 10 pack mules.

 

[ucla1967]

This is Randy's set 1078 THE SULTAN'S TURKISH NAVY.