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."
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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