Wanted: Personality Figures from British History (1 Viewer)

[MikeNick]

Hi.
I teach European History and would like figures of the movers and shakers of British history to add to my collection.
Does any know a manufacturer of ANY of the following individuals?
King Henry VII,
Sir Thomas More,
Mary Queen of Scots,
Mary Tudor,
Guy Fawkes,
John Knox,
King William III and Queen Mary,
John Locke,
Thomas Hobbes,
Francis Bacon,
John Wesley,
Edward Gibbon,
William Hogarth,
Robert Walpole,
Robert Jenkins (War of Jenkins Ear),
Adam Smith,
Thomas Malthus,
James Watt,
Richard Arkwright,
King George, I,
King George II,
King George III,
Edmund Burke,
William Pitt,
John Wilkes,
Mary Wollstonecraft,
Charles Dickens,
Ned Ludd,
Edwin Chadwick,
Robert Owen,
Jeremy Bentham,
David Ricardo,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
John Stuart Mill,
Jane Austen,
Robert Peel,
Roger Fenton,
Benjamin Disraeil,
Samuel Smiles,
Alfred Lord Tennyson,
William Gladstone,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Emily Davison,
Cecil Rhodes,
Rudyard Kipling,
James Joyce,
Neville Chamberlain,
Clement Atlee,
Margaret Thatcher

Thanks,
MikeNick

 

[boerboy]

K&C made Charles Dickens, I have one.
Sarum made Kipling... Charles Hall made Robert Burns figure.. Queens & Kings are easier to find.
Al

 

[theBaron]

Russell Gammage (Rose Miniatures) made a set of George III and Queen Charlotte. John Eden might have the molds to make those kits.

In the customer range, Stadden made Mary Stuart, depicted with the blademan at her execution. Stadden also made figures of Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duke of Cumberland, and some others. I'll have to look in my catalogs for more. In the Tradition toy soldier range, there is a figure of Nelson, I'm pretty sure.

I think Britain's made a figure of Shakespeare.

Some of the other figures, while important in British history, probably have never been reproduced in miniatures. Adam Smith, for example, while important for our political and economic philosophy, was probably never produced as a figure, unless someone local made a set of famous Scots. I'd be surprised, if someone had. Same goes for John Stuart Mill or John Wesley.

Prosit!
Brad

 

[HistoryfortheAges]

I would check with Tradition of London. I believe that they have several of those figures however, they would be gloss-painted.

:salute::

 

[DMNamiot]

Hi There,

Great list of interesting people but you will be hard pressed to get a lot of them. WBritains made some of those figures but a lot of them would have to be custom jobs and or conversions of other figures.

Dave