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Oberstinhaber
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Hi Nevinsrip,
Please remember that 90% of the people who look at this Forum wouldn't know what an SAE ("South African Engineers", most sculpted by the late, great Holgar Eriksson) figure was, let alone what they look like!
I do (showing my age) but I have never seen an SAE Artillery piece, nor a Knight, nor a Japanese.
If you could be so good as to put up a couple of photos, we would all be educated, and you might just find a buyer!
Just a thought.
Happy Collecting
Oberstinhaber
I have taken numerous photos. If you want the file, send me your email address and I'll forward it to anyone interested.
Image hosting here is a problem. So send and email to
nevinsrip@aol.com
PUT SAE in the title, so I know what it is.
Image hosting here is a problem. So send and email to
nevinsrip@aol.com
PUT SAE in the title, so I know what it is.
Mirof
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The figures were designed
by Holger Eriksson in 40 and 54mm
"Authenticast was a product name used from the 1930s to the 1950s by the American toy maker Comet, to market a range of metal military toys and soldiers made using a centrifugal casting process that allowed more detail than earlier methods.
Authenticast toy soldiers are descendants of Comet’s earlier “Brigadiers” series and were made by a subsidiary of the Comet company set up in Ireland after the Second World War to take advantage of post-war economic regeneration initiatives."
KingsAfricanRifles.wordpress.com
Usine détruite dans in incendie en 1953, production part pour
l'Afrique de Sud S.A.E.
Factory destroyed in a fire in 1953, production goes to South Affrika S.A.E.
According to another source :
CometMetal Product Inc New york, founder Abraham Slonim and begin to make toy soldiers under the name Brigadier in 1940 . In 1944 they will commission Holger Eriksson to design 54mm and 40mm for them. To open a market in Europe they set up a firm called Galder Eireann at Spiddal, alway, Eire with manager and there game a new range or Eriksson design under the name Authenticast some marked L.N. ( unidentified sculptor ) . Adding semi-flats by Frank Rogers and some others, the company failed and the moulds, some never used, were returned to Comet, some To Malleble Moulding to adapt them for plastic production .
S.A.E. Sculptured Figures ( Sweedish Afrikan Engineers ( Winkler and Wennberg ) Cape Town 1955-1970 making first 30mm designed by Eriksson, the 54mm were reminiscent to Authenticast and were later sold unassembled to USA . In 1970 the 30mm goes to Canada as EMI and pirated in Hong Kong as AHI
J Garrat The World Encyclopedia of Model Soldiers
by Holger Eriksson in 40 and 54mm
"Authenticast was a product name used from the 1930s to the 1950s by the American toy maker Comet, to market a range of metal military toys and soldiers made using a centrifugal casting process that allowed more detail than earlier methods.
Authenticast toy soldiers are descendants of Comet’s earlier “Brigadiers” series and were made by a subsidiary of the Comet company set up in Ireland after the Second World War to take advantage of post-war economic regeneration initiatives."
KingsAfricanRifles.wordpress.com
Usine détruite dans in incendie en 1953, production part pour
l'Afrique de Sud S.A.E.
Factory destroyed in a fire in 1953, production goes to South Affrika S.A.E.
According to another source :
CometMetal Product Inc New york, founder Abraham Slonim and begin to make toy soldiers under the name Brigadier in 1940 . In 1944 they will commission Holger Eriksson to design 54mm and 40mm for them. To open a market in Europe they set up a firm called Galder Eireann at Spiddal, alway, Eire with manager and there game a new range or Eriksson design under the name Authenticast some marked L.N. ( unidentified sculptor ) . Adding semi-flats by Frank Rogers and some others, the company failed and the moulds, some never used, were returned to Comet, some To Malleble Moulding to adapt them for plastic production .
S.A.E. Sculptured Figures ( Sweedish Afrikan Engineers ( Winkler and Wennberg ) Cape Town 1955-1970 making first 30mm designed by Eriksson, the 54mm were reminiscent to Authenticast and were later sold unassembled to USA . In 1970 the 30mm goes to Canada as EMI and pirated in Hong Kong as AHI
J Garrat The World Encyclopedia of Model Soldiers