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Post by joppyuk on Jan 25, 2019 11:59:51 GMT
I've just been browsing through my copy of Stuart Asquith's "Collector's Guide to New Toy Soldiers" (1991), and, with the revival of Replica Models I wondered what happened to some of the other makers listed. I realise that time and age will have removed some, but are the others still around? I know that Brigadier of New South Wales has retired, as I persuaded him to cast some rifle volunteers specially for me a year or so ago. I've been out of the Toy Soldier scene for a while, so haven't been keeping up with the literature or visiting shows, and am well behind in the news. On a similar matter, I notice that a dealer on e-bay seems to have an inflated idea of value for some sets I turned out years ago, selling them currently for about four times the price I sold them. Perhaps I should root round the loft and see what is up there? |
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Post by Mike Lewis on Jan 25, 2019 13:02:58 GMT
There are a staggering number of companies in the Asquith book that are no longer around. To be fair, some of them seemed to have produced, perhaps, 5-6 sets and then stopped as they weren't making any money from it.
I now own All the Queens Men's ranges so they are coming back, Replica was still running until Pat Campbell's death so it hasn't been out of production all that long.
I am still amazed by the man who bought Trophy and then did almost nothing with it over 20 years despite lots of mutterings.
The problem with a lot of the older companies are, as I am finding with AQM, that the moulds are 40 years old and quite often decayed and split or just really badly made by modern standards. Alot of the AQM horse moulds are shockingly bad in terms of the thick feeds into the backs of the horses which makes you wonder how much time they must have spent cleaning them up!
I think that people have an inflated idea of what something is worth merely because it is no longer being produced - which company did you produce stuff for/through?
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Post by joppyuk on Jan 25, 2019 17:03:48 GMT
Mike,
I understand your concerns over the deterioration of moulds. One reason I gave up was that my mould maker/caster retired and the moulds were not worth transferring. I still have three in the loft (US Dragoon, RCMP, and one of a set that never made the list, "Presenting the Colours". I operated under the "Old Hall Miniatures" name and, as I worked from home at the time, I did some painting for Steadfast, Mainly Military, and Caberfeidh among others.
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