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Trophy produced the finest sets of Glossy Toy Soldiers anywhere, probably in the entire Industry.
Len Taylors very realistic animated sets of "fighting troops" enabled collectors of Glossy oy Figures to actualy be able to create whole realistic Scenes or Dioramas using Glossy Soldiers.
That was probably a "Industry First" and set new standards of painting and craftsmanship not seen in some others in the Hobby world.
Len seems to have established at some time a working successfull Busines Relationship in the Untied States, where for years "Trophy of texas" also existed and sold his and some of their own Unique Trophy Items.
Some of the Former Trophy of texas pages were once Archived by Bill Hocker (now retired). Some can still be seen.
What happenned to TROPHY Miniatures? A brilliant Industry success story, like so many others in their hey day of production.
It seems Trophy went out of production sometime in around 2006 or a bit after.
I remember being given the chance to buy the TROPHY Miniatures range at the same time I was bidding for and trying (rather hard as it turned out) to secure Chota Sahib and Sarum Studio Range. My Bid did not succeed at that time, due to delay imposed by a "family Lawyer" (thats a whole other story !) and I heard the TROPHY range got sent to Belgium....
Certainly i do recall clearly seeing the Trophy Crimean Russian Artillery sets and later found these being sold by Swedish Dealer magnus Londstrom.
So it appears "some" got sold off by len back then, but later on, Len clearly began trading again, up until sometime in 2012. UK Companies House Records give the assetts of a bit over 36 000 Sterling, which is about right for a Business of that size back then.
Strangely however, the Final two pages, refer to the GAZETING or Striking off being refferred to the then her majesties Treasurey Solicitor as Legal "BONA VACANTIA" which is the UK Legal term for NO WIll or succesor or anyone else able to take on the Business (or pay any due Debts etc which sometimes remain when a Business huts down).
ken Jackson of MAISON MILITAIRE did buy Trophy apparently but it is unclear from what we see, when that purchase might have actualy been, or if indeed it involved the entire complete range of Lens Production. Ken dos not however seem to have kept Trophy going very much, and few if any official releases were ever mad.
Ken Jackson sold Maison Militarie to the current operators, several years ago, but NOT TROPHY Miniatures....
Which really rather "begs the Question" where did all the Trophy Tooling finish up?
Like DUCAL, (Jack and Thelma Duc) it seems as if the fantastic lifetime work of a creative genius (which certainly Len taylor was) have seriously gone astray and I fear have by this day and date, come to a slip Shod poor end.
Years have passed by and no news of TROPHY.....
There appears to be a sadly predictable pattern here, in the Industry, involving a good number over the recent years, highly Successfull Businesess vanishing without trace or plausible explanations.
Len Taylors very realistic animated sets of "fighting troops" enabled collectors of Glossy oy Figures to actualy be able to create whole realistic Scenes or Dioramas using Glossy Soldiers.
That was probably a "Industry First" and set new standards of painting and craftsmanship not seen in some others in the Hobby world.
Len seems to have established at some time a working successfull Busines Relationship in the Untied States, where for years "Trophy of texas" also existed and sold his and some of their own Unique Trophy Items.
Some of the Former Trophy of texas pages were once Archived by Bill Hocker (now retired). Some can still be seen.
What happenned to TROPHY Miniatures? A brilliant Industry success story, like so many others in their hey day of production.
It seems Trophy went out of production sometime in around 2006 or a bit after.
I remember being given the chance to buy the TROPHY Miniatures range at the same time I was bidding for and trying (rather hard as it turned out) to secure Chota Sahib and Sarum Studio Range. My Bid did not succeed at that time, due to delay imposed by a "family Lawyer" (thats a whole other story !) and I heard the TROPHY range got sent to Belgium....
Certainly i do recall clearly seeing the Trophy Crimean Russian Artillery sets and later found these being sold by Swedish Dealer magnus Londstrom.
So it appears "some" got sold off by len back then, but later on, Len clearly began trading again, up until sometime in 2012. UK Companies House Records give the assetts of a bit over 36 000 Sterling, which is about right for a Business of that size back then.
Strangely however, the Final two pages, refer to the GAZETING or Striking off being refferred to the then her majesties Treasurey Solicitor as Legal "BONA VACANTIA" which is the UK Legal term for NO WIll or succesor or anyone else able to take on the Business (or pay any due Debts etc which sometimes remain when a Business huts down).
ken Jackson of MAISON MILITAIRE did buy Trophy apparently but it is unclear from what we see, when that purchase might have actualy been, or if indeed it involved the entire complete range of Lens Production. Ken dos not however seem to have kept Trophy going very much, and few if any official releases were ever mad.
Ken Jackson sold Maison Militarie to the current operators, several years ago, but NOT TROPHY Miniatures....
Which really rather "begs the Question" where did all the Trophy Tooling finish up?
Like DUCAL, (Jack and Thelma Duc) it seems as if the fantastic lifetime work of a creative genius (which certainly Len taylor was) have seriously gone astray and I fear have by this day and date, come to a slip Shod poor end.
Years have passed by and no news of TROPHY.....
There appears to be a sadly predictable pattern here, in the Industry, involving a good number over the recent years, highly Successfull Businesess vanishing without trace or plausible explanations.
