Skating Winter set - Any ideas on Manufacturer? (1 Viewer)

[Julie]

This is one of the 'unknowns' that came in recently for Consignment.
There are no maker's marks on the bottoms of any - any clue as to who made them?







Any help or information is appreciated!

Julie

 

[theBaron]

Manoil, if I am not mistaken. I know these figures are depicted in O'Brien's "Collecting Toy Soldiers", and I'd have to look to be sure of Manoil, versus Barclay. But I'm pretty sure it's Manoil. American dimestore.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Julie]

Thank you Brad!!

 

[theBaron]

Sure thing!

This figures represent a cross-over from our hobby to others. I think there are a lot of people who were kids in the late Thirties, Forties and early Fifties, who may never have had toy soldiers, but they remember these figures as part of their family's Christmas decorations (the Christmas Putz, as we call it around here, and no, that's not a Christmas knucklehead )

Prost!
Brad