New Elephant and Camel Riders - April 2017 (1 Viewer)

Final stage: sculpting finished. All into molds by now.

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Mahout
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Standing servant - howda's back seat
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Hi -I wanted to share with you my research from today. I found new pictures of the Emblem carriers from Cutch. It ALWAYS happens to me that I find new photos once I finish making the set. Luckily, they only prove that I was correct :)

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I missed this picture because it was labelled as Bikaner. They are definitely NOT Bikaner, they are the Cutch Emblems. Absolutely lovely picture, I was so happy to find it. Many things are deducted from this photo:
They were 10 camels carrying flags and emblems, plus the musicians at the back. That was not so clear on the other images. There are 4 camels carrying emblems and 6 camels carrying flags. I'm only releasing one set with a pair of camels carrying the flags. The standard set will carry the pair of camels that follow the emblems, with plain color flags. If you want to have the actual amount of camels with flags (six in total) just let me know; I can make two extra pairs, assembled with different heads, with the flags painted as in the picture below, stripped with some kind of lace.
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Here are the fish emblems. I'm glad that I got them right from the other photos. I must say that the turbans don't look very violet as Menpes painted them. But the descriptions mention them as violet too, so I'll follow their lead.
This is what has been written about them:

Civil & Military Gazette 13/01:
The camels carried two men each and were clothed in red trappings with swivel guns atop. The musicians blew penny trumpets, and big cudy horns and straight hugles like long stemmed funnels - all of silver.

Menpes:
Men on camels dressed in vermilion turbans carried salmon-and-gold banners surmounted by golden emblems. These banners and emblems played an important
part all through the procession, and added their quota of colour and brilliance. They had been presented by the Mogul Emperors, our friend in salmon informed us, and acted as a stimulus to remind the various States that they formed part of the Mogul Empire.

A Motley Army:
but you noticed camel-men in red with violet turbans;


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These turbans are stripped. Aren't they nice?
 
Continuing with the same photo. Two other details.

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Check the group of Highlanders lining the parade. This point of view is not very common, the photo taken from the arena. It's great to discover them from this view.

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I hadn't seen these before: a group of musicians on horses following the camels. Some sets to add to the group in the future :)


The other photo that I found was within the photos taken from an actual photo album. Obviously I missed this too.
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The two fish can be seen here too :)

Ana
 
Hi Ana,

I agree that there doesnt seem to be very many photos of the reviewing arena looking back into the stands and yet I have seen several photos of photographers in that area looking back in so it makes me wonder where those pictures went over the years. It would be so cool to find a cache of photos in India or London showing more of this amazing event. I am glad you spotted the highlanders hiding in that one photo! Cant wait to see the elephant painted!

Dave
 
Dave,

There are many albums with pictures of the Delhi Durbar 1903 going around. If you check at Sotheby every now and then you'll see them. They always go for very high prices. That's one of my main goals if I win the lotto :)
What we really need is to find those photo collectors and convince them to share

Ana
 
A few pics before the official release of the new bunch of sets.

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Head casting

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Body casting. Just wanted to show you how the embroidery looks when casted

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Elegant trio

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Figures of the 3 escort groups waiting to be painted

All is almost ready now, I will post the pics when everything is finished. Surely this week :)

Ana
 
Yes, yes, the Elephant of Rajgarh is ready. Here are the pictures.

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Set 442 - State Elephant of Rajgarh, Delhi Durbar, 1903


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Set 443 - Escort Guards from Rajgarh, group right, Delhi Durbar, 1903


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Set 444 - Escort Guards from Rajgarh, group left, Delhi Durbar, 1903


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Set 445 - Mace Bearers and Musicians from Rajgarh, Delhi Durbar, 1903


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Sets 442, 443, 444 and 445 - The Rajgarh Group, Delhi Durbar, 1903


All the sets are limited series of 30 of each, painted and signed by me. Have in mind that there will be a delivery delay because of that. Right now, having in mind the orders that I have already received, the delivery dates are around mid August. I will give you a certain shipping date when you place and confirm your order.

These new sets haven't been featured on our website yet. They will be there by tomorrow.


I wanted to post the pictures of the Rajgarh Elephant and staff separate from the Emblem Bearers from Cutch. I'll post them in a couple of days. They are looking so so beautiful, exceeding my expectations :)

Ana
 
Emblem Carriers on Camels from Cutch, Delhi Durbar, 1903

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Set 446 - Emblem Carriers on Camels from Cutch, Fish and Lizard, Delhi Durbar, 1903

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Set 447 - Emblem Carriers on Camels from Cutch, Fish and Bird, Delhi Durbar, 1903

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Set 448 - Emblem Carriers on Camels from Cutch, Small Flags, Delhi Durbar, 1903

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Set 449 - Musicians on Camels from Cutch, Delhi Durbar, 1903

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Sets 446, 447, 448 and 449 - The Emblem Carriers from Cutch, Delhi Durbar, 1903


Colorful, right? :)

Ana
 
Beautiful!!! They look just like the Menepes PIcture in the Durbar book!

Love them Ana

Dave
 
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