"T.G." figures on EBAY (1 Viewer)

Don't recognize it but then again, I don't collect anything in Thomas Gunn that isn't WWII

Carlos
 
I checked the TG website and did not see these figures on it. They are not sold by Treefrog or Hobbybunker.
Benjamin
 
I looked at Sager's and TG's websites and didn't see anything like this. I wouldn't say absolutely no but I doubt they're TG.
 
I recall seeing a post from TG a long while back with unpainted prototypes of one or two of the Hanoverian (the ones with the horse on the shako). I do not remember these figures ever being released.

I have also eBay sellers from China selling exact copies of figures from K&C and Collectors' Showcase that appear to have been produced independently of those manufacturers (I can tell this because the figures are usually long retired or painted to a slightly lower standard.) Sometimes they even come in the correct boxes! I think these companies probably produced the original figures and have discovered that on a small scale, they can make a much larger profit selling copies on eBay.

I think these TG figures must be copies of figures that TG decided not to release.
 
Yes, there were made for Thomas Gunn but didn't come up to the standard Tom wanted, so they were rejected.

There were Hanoverian and Prussians with the same bodies, but different shakos to make the 2 different armies.

It seems that these were pre-production figures and now being sold after someone in China got hold of them.

I have also seen other maker's figures on that EBay seller's listing, so they all must have been made in the same factory.

John
 
The problem is typical of outsourcing production to China. Defective products are never thrown away, but are reworked and sold on the secondary market and can affect a manufacturers reputation adversely. Unless a manufacturer owns the production facility and has rigid onsite quality control unauthorized release of defective or substandard products can happen.
 
Faircloverland is the eBay store of a Chinese (Hong Kong) casting company who contracted to cast figures for a number of toy soldier makers. That is Fair Tech International, http://www.fairtechhk.com/index.htm

They are the successor to the company that was casting for Alan Silk's and Ed Lober's Guard Corps venture, for example; or it's the same company with a new name. They hold the molds for the "Kaiser's Birthday Parade" and Seventh Cavalry series. I think they have the molds for Guard Corps' Civil War series as well. In the case of the former Guard Corp pieces, the quality of the castings is exactly the same as it was when Alan and Ed were still alive and in business. They sell those via their eBay store. But Fair Tech's prices are a little steeper than the original Guard Corps prices were.

Prost!
Brad
 
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