i really don't know much about the production numbers of the mexican american or wwi trophy sets. I will say this, i used to have almost a complete set of trophy mexican war (i gave it to hans years ago), and i have a pretty extensive collection of the trophy wwi, and i think the tales of the extremely limited production of these sets are somewhat overblown. For example, there has been a lot of discussion that the wwi turkish sets are limited to no more than 5-6 sets each, yet i have been able to get two sets of the firing line set with officer, the machine gun nest diorama set, and multiple sets of the mounted lancers and camel escort, and have seen other auctions for these same sets. I suspect that there was a great deal more production than we have been led to believe. Perhaps the dealers were exaggerating the limits on production in order to convince collectors to clear out their stock.
