Welcome to the new releases for May, written on a very pleasant spring day here in the San Francisco Bay Area. All the April releases are now in stock and the new TIC-022 and the FOKKER DR1 are just spectacular.
If you are still looking for that perfect Easter present or would like a perfect Easter present, you might want to drop a big hint about the newly arrived Jenkins. Instead of hunting for Easter eggs, suggest hunting for a Jenkins Toy Soldier, low calorie and good for your heart.
We have some great releases this month, which will please everyone, I especially like the Blacksmith, the Grenadiers and of course the Tank. Actually there is nothing I do not like? Remember the Red Baron from the Knights of the Skies will be released in May. Details were in last months update.
We also hope you will like the new releases and the new club set that has just been added.
I hope to have these on the web site later this morning at
www.sierratoysoldier.com
Hope you liked them.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
THE CONDOR LEGION
THE WEHRMACHT’S TRAINING GROUND
The captured T-26 tanks, in Nationalist service were more popularly called “Vickers” .
By October 1937, the Nationalist forces had captured ten intact T-26’s and many more damaged examples that could be cannibalized for parts. There were enough intact tanks captured that each PzKpfw 1 company had a single T-26 for fire support.
In order to prevent their misidentification as Republican tanks, they were prominently marked with the red, yellow and red flag colours of Franco’s forces, and usually had the turret roof painted in white with a St. Andrew’s cross for air identification.
COND-05 - T-26 Light Tank
(2pcs)
NOT LIMITED
Retail us$169
BATTLE Of FORT CARILLON, TICONDEROGA, 8th JULY 1758
TIC-21 - 42nd REGIMENT OF FOOT, 2 Grenadiers March Attack,
(2pc)
Not Limited Edition
Retail us$77
THE RAID ON ST. FRANCIS
RRB-03 - THE BLACKSMITH
(3pcs)
NOT Limited Edition
Retail us$88
THE FIRST SUDAN WAR 1884-1885
GDH-08 - GORDON HIGHLANDERS 2 Figures At The Ready
(2pcs)
NOT Limited Edition
Retail us$68
THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM 1759
QF-22 - REGIMENT DE LANGUEDOC
Officer With Regiment Standard
(2pc)
Limited Edition 750
Retail us$60
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB 2011
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#09
STATUS –PREVIEW PERIOD, 15th APRIL- 31st MAY
John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen), (b c.1760 at Dunfermline, Scotland; d c.1831)
Captain John Norton or “The Snipe” was the son of a Cherokee father and a Scottish mother. Norton was a resourceful, intelligent war chief who participated in almost every major battle of the Niagara campaigns. After Tecumseh, he was the most successful British native leader of the war.
After receiving an education in Dunfermline, Norton enlisted in the British 65th Foot Regiment in 1784. He arrived in Lower Canada with the regiment in 1785, and was sent to Fort Niagara (Upper Canada) in 1787. Norton received his discharge in 1788, and worked in the **r trade from 1791-95 for John Askin, an American trader based in Fort Detroit, serving as both an interpreter and trader. He dealt with the First Nations south of the Great Lakes (Maumee, Wyandot, Shawnee). Following the victory of the American army over Maumee and their allies at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 Aug 1794), Norton returned to Canada.
Norton was retained by the Indian Department at Niagara as an interpreter, during which time he met Joseph Brant. Impressed by Norton's skill as an interpreter and negotiator, Brant convinced Norton to join the Grand River Mohawk. Norton resigned from the Indian Department. Brant adopted Norton as his nephew and granted him the title of Peace Chief, assigning him the task of negotiating land settlements with the British government. Norton was aided by Brant's son John, but they were unable to reach an agreement favourable to the Grand River Mohawk. During these negotiations, John Norton was approached by the British and Foreign Bible Society to translate the Gospel of St. John into the Mohawk language; when published in 1806, it was the first translation of the gospel in a First Nations' language.
With the outbreak of the WAR OF 1812 between Britain and the United States, Norton was given the rank of captain in the British army. He recruited Grand River Mohawk and others and led them at the BATTLE OF QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (13 October 1812). After the death of Sir Isaac Brock early in the battle, Norton led the Mohawk in the attack on the American troops. The action proved decisive, for it gave General Sheaffe time to prepare a successful counter attack and crush the American force.
The following year, Norton and his warriors covered the retreat of the British forces to Burlington Heights after the Americans had taken Fort Niagara. The American advance was halted at the BATTLE OF STONEY CREEK (6 June 1813), where Norton's Mohawk provided scouts prior to a successful night attack by Brigadier John Vincent and the 49th Regiment. Days later, the British completed the rout of the Americans at the BATTLE OF BEAVER DAMS (24 June 1813) with the aid of Grand River and Kahnawake Mohawk warriors.
After the war, Norton and his wife, a Lenape (Delaware) woman called Karighwaycagh, travelled to England where Norton received the brevet rank of major in the British army. They returned to Grand River in 1816. In 1823, Norton was found guilty of manslaughter after a duel involving his wife's suspected infidelity and after that he essentially disappeared from the historic record. The last known correspondence from him was in 1826. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Norton died in northern Mexico sometime in October 1831.
JJCLUBSET-09
THE WAR OF 1812
The Battle of Chippawa, 5th July 1814
Captain JOHN NORTON, “THE SNIPE”
Mohawk War Chief
(1pc)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$38
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#08
STATUS –PRE-ORDER PERIOD APRIL 18th – MAY 31st
Stewart was a native of Scotland who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Great Meadows in July, 1754. He was promoted to captain in the Virginia forces on November 1st, 1754. Stewart commanded the troop of Virginia light horse on Braddock’s expedition. His unit served as escort for General Braddock and fought at the Battle on The Monongahela.
During the Battle he had two horses shot out from under him and his sword and scabbard were shot away. He was one of only five members of a 29 man unit that survived the battle, suffering only a slight injury when one bullet creased his brow and another his forehead.
JJCLUBSET-08
Battle On The Monongahela 1755
VIRGINIA LIGHT HORSE,
CAPTAIN ROBERT STEWART, with Wounded Horse
(2pcs)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$TBA
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#07
STATUS –IN PRODUCTION JUNE 2011 SHIPPING END OF JULY
LIMITED EDITION 348
Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780) (c. 1750–January 20, 1830) was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan
Red Jacket was one of the leaders of the native force that served with Porter’s Third Brigade during the campaign of 1814. At Chippawa, the native warriors of both sides fought a violent battle in which no quarter was asked and none was given.
Red Jacket took this name, from a highly embroidered coat given to him by the British for his wartime services.
The Senecas took the British side during the American Revolution, a costly mistake, since their ally ultimately lost.
In the War of 1812, Red Jacket supported the American side.
Red Jacket became famous as an orator, speaking for the rights of his people. He played a prominent role in negotiations with the new federal government. In 1792 he was heading a delegation of 50 people to Philadelphia where president George Washington presented him with a special "peace medal", a large oval silver plate showing an image of Washington on the right hand side shaking his hand engraved upon it, below the inscription "George Washington", "Red Jacket", and "1792". Red Jacket wore this medal on his chest in every portrait painted of him. (The medal survives today in the collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.)
JJCLUBSET-07
THE WAR OF 1812
The Battle of Chippawa, 5th July 1814
RED JACKET, CHIEF OF THE SENECAS
(1pc)
Limited Edition (348)
Retail us$38
RETIREMENTS
WIM-02
Hope you like the new releases as much as I do.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier
If you are still looking for that perfect Easter present or would like a perfect Easter present, you might want to drop a big hint about the newly arrived Jenkins. Instead of hunting for Easter eggs, suggest hunting for a Jenkins Toy Soldier, low calorie and good for your heart.
We have some great releases this month, which will please everyone, I especially like the Blacksmith, the Grenadiers and of course the Tank. Actually there is nothing I do not like? Remember the Red Baron from the Knights of the Skies will be released in May. Details were in last months update.
We also hope you will like the new releases and the new club set that has just been added.
I hope to have these on the web site later this morning at
www.sierratoysoldier.com
Hope you liked them.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
THE CONDOR LEGION
THE WEHRMACHT’S TRAINING GROUND
The captured T-26 tanks, in Nationalist service were more popularly called “Vickers” .
By October 1937, the Nationalist forces had captured ten intact T-26’s and many more damaged examples that could be cannibalized for parts. There were enough intact tanks captured that each PzKpfw 1 company had a single T-26 for fire support.
In order to prevent their misidentification as Republican tanks, they were prominently marked with the red, yellow and red flag colours of Franco’s forces, and usually had the turret roof painted in white with a St. Andrew’s cross for air identification.
COND-05 - T-26 Light Tank
(2pcs)
NOT LIMITED
Retail us$169
BATTLE Of FORT CARILLON, TICONDEROGA, 8th JULY 1758
TIC-21 - 42nd REGIMENT OF FOOT, 2 Grenadiers March Attack,
(2pc)
Not Limited Edition
Retail us$77
THE RAID ON ST. FRANCIS
RRB-03 - THE BLACKSMITH
(3pcs)
NOT Limited Edition
Retail us$88
THE FIRST SUDAN WAR 1884-1885
GDH-08 - GORDON HIGHLANDERS 2 Figures At The Ready
(2pcs)
NOT Limited Edition
Retail us$68
THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM 1759
QF-22 - REGIMENT DE LANGUEDOC
Officer With Regiment Standard
(2pc)
Limited Edition 750
Retail us$60
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB 2011
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#09
STATUS –PREVIEW PERIOD, 15th APRIL- 31st MAY
John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen), (b c.1760 at Dunfermline, Scotland; d c.1831)
Captain John Norton or “The Snipe” was the son of a Cherokee father and a Scottish mother. Norton was a resourceful, intelligent war chief who participated in almost every major battle of the Niagara campaigns. After Tecumseh, he was the most successful British native leader of the war.
After receiving an education in Dunfermline, Norton enlisted in the British 65th Foot Regiment in 1784. He arrived in Lower Canada with the regiment in 1785, and was sent to Fort Niagara (Upper Canada) in 1787. Norton received his discharge in 1788, and worked in the **r trade from 1791-95 for John Askin, an American trader based in Fort Detroit, serving as both an interpreter and trader. He dealt with the First Nations south of the Great Lakes (Maumee, Wyandot, Shawnee). Following the victory of the American army over Maumee and their allies at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 Aug 1794), Norton returned to Canada.
Norton was retained by the Indian Department at Niagara as an interpreter, during which time he met Joseph Brant. Impressed by Norton's skill as an interpreter and negotiator, Brant convinced Norton to join the Grand River Mohawk. Norton resigned from the Indian Department. Brant adopted Norton as his nephew and granted him the title of Peace Chief, assigning him the task of negotiating land settlements with the British government. Norton was aided by Brant's son John, but they were unable to reach an agreement favourable to the Grand River Mohawk. During these negotiations, John Norton was approached by the British and Foreign Bible Society to translate the Gospel of St. John into the Mohawk language; when published in 1806, it was the first translation of the gospel in a First Nations' language.
With the outbreak of the WAR OF 1812 between Britain and the United States, Norton was given the rank of captain in the British army. He recruited Grand River Mohawk and others and led them at the BATTLE OF QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (13 October 1812). After the death of Sir Isaac Brock early in the battle, Norton led the Mohawk in the attack on the American troops. The action proved decisive, for it gave General Sheaffe time to prepare a successful counter attack and crush the American force.
The following year, Norton and his warriors covered the retreat of the British forces to Burlington Heights after the Americans had taken Fort Niagara. The American advance was halted at the BATTLE OF STONEY CREEK (6 June 1813), where Norton's Mohawk provided scouts prior to a successful night attack by Brigadier John Vincent and the 49th Regiment. Days later, the British completed the rout of the Americans at the BATTLE OF BEAVER DAMS (24 June 1813) with the aid of Grand River and Kahnawake Mohawk warriors.
After the war, Norton and his wife, a Lenape (Delaware) woman called Karighwaycagh, travelled to England where Norton received the brevet rank of major in the British army. They returned to Grand River in 1816. In 1823, Norton was found guilty of manslaughter after a duel involving his wife's suspected infidelity and after that he essentially disappeared from the historic record. The last known correspondence from him was in 1826. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Norton died in northern Mexico sometime in October 1831.
JJCLUBSET-09
THE WAR OF 1812
The Battle of Chippawa, 5th July 1814
Captain JOHN NORTON, “THE SNIPE”
Mohawk War Chief
(1pc)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$38
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#08
STATUS –PRE-ORDER PERIOD APRIL 18th – MAY 31st
Stewart was a native of Scotland who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Great Meadows in July, 1754. He was promoted to captain in the Virginia forces on November 1st, 1754. Stewart commanded the troop of Virginia light horse on Braddock’s expedition. His unit served as escort for General Braddock and fought at the Battle on The Monongahela.
During the Battle he had two horses shot out from under him and his sword and scabbard were shot away. He was one of only five members of a 29 man unit that survived the battle, suffering only a slight injury when one bullet creased his brow and another his forehead.
JJCLUBSET-08
Battle On The Monongahela 1755
VIRGINIA LIGHT HORSE,
CAPTAIN ROBERT STEWART, with Wounded Horse
(2pcs)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$TBA
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#07
STATUS –IN PRODUCTION JUNE 2011 SHIPPING END OF JULY
LIMITED EDITION 348
Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780) (c. 1750–January 20, 1830) was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan
Red Jacket was one of the leaders of the native force that served with Porter’s Third Brigade during the campaign of 1814. At Chippawa, the native warriors of both sides fought a violent battle in which no quarter was asked and none was given.
Red Jacket took this name, from a highly embroidered coat given to him by the British for his wartime services.
The Senecas took the British side during the American Revolution, a costly mistake, since their ally ultimately lost.
In the War of 1812, Red Jacket supported the American side.
Red Jacket became famous as an orator, speaking for the rights of his people. He played a prominent role in negotiations with the new federal government. In 1792 he was heading a delegation of 50 people to Philadelphia where president George Washington presented him with a special "peace medal", a large oval silver plate showing an image of Washington on the right hand side shaking his hand engraved upon it, below the inscription "George Washington", "Red Jacket", and "1792". Red Jacket wore this medal on his chest in every portrait painted of him. (The medal survives today in the collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.)
JJCLUBSET-07
THE WAR OF 1812
The Battle of Chippawa, 5th July 1814
RED JACKET, CHIEF OF THE SENECAS
(1pc)
Limited Edition (348)
Retail us$38
RETIREMENTS
WIM-02
Hope you like the new releases as much as I do.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier
