Smithsonian Institute article on museum collection (1 Viewer)

[whdamon]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID=135178153&page=1

Check out this web page about a major soldier collection from a museum in Spain.

Appears to be quite extensive.

Walt Damon

 

[Napoleon1er]

In other news, a bunch of King and Country Napoleonics will be stolen recently from the very same collection- as soon as I get some train tickets.....{sm4}^&grin

 

[MikeNick]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID=135178153&page=1

Check out this web page about a major soldier collection from a museum in Spain.

Appears to be quite extensive.

Walt Damon

Wow!

 

[hsm]

Cool thanks!

 

[theBaron]

Thanks for sharing the link, Walt! Does anyone know if this feature appeared in the magazine? I'm going to buy the issue, if it did.

One minor inaccuracy, though--they noted that the "craze for collecting toy soldiers" began in France in the 18th Century. I say the German flat makers got there first, in the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years War.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Grognard]

Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing! Nice to see recognition from the Smithsonian I. on this wonderful hobby! Note that - if I read correctly that paragraph - the reference to Napoleon's son playing with TS in the 18th century is wrong since he was born in the 19th century...

 

[whdamon]

Does anyone know if this feature appeared in the magazine? I'm going to buy the issue, if it did



Not in current issue other than to note a link, which ios how I found it

WHD

 

[theBaron]

Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing! Nice to see recognition from the Smithsonian I. on this wonderful hobby! Note that - if I read correctly that paragraph - the reference to Napoleon's son playing with TS in the 18th century is wrong since he was born in the 19th century...

Actually, they featured the Forbes collection way back in the August 1980 issue, with a nice article about the collection, the museum in Morocco, and a little bit of history of toy soldiers. The Institute also used to offer toy soldiers in their holiday catalog for a number of years back in the 80s and 90s. There were different figures offered from year to year, such as flats, Austrian half-rounds, and modern repros of Heydes. They dropped from the catalog around the time that the magazine started to take a decided turn to the left. I haven't subscribed since around '93 or so, so I don't know if they ever came back.

It's been years since I made it down to Washington, too, so I don't know if there are any displays in any of the Smithsonian museums (the Museum of American History comes to mind first).

If I can find that this feature appeared in any hard copy issue, I'll post back, in case anyone is interested to get the mag.

Prost!
Brad