Saturday 26 June 2021

The Waterloo Collection

 

The front cover of the brochure I came across 

I was fossicking through some old magazines and came upon this old brochure from 1979 advertising a special collection of hand painted figures to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.  I’m curious to know how many of you ever came across this and did you know anyone who’s actually ever purchased it. Even by today’s standards $45 a figure for a collection of over 50 figures seems quite






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  1. Your winter clean is pulling out some gems, eh Carlo?!
    Regards, James

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    1. It is amazing Fish as I also put a couple of photos up on Facebook and asked whether anyone had ever seen or collected them. Sure enough, indeed there were a few people who actually had them. Amazing.

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  2. Bah! As wargamer's we'd doa UNIT for each regiment there,. eh?
    Of course, many of us have, but not me this time. :-)

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    1. Indeed we would Peter. In fact we have on so many occasions that we can name those units on display in our sleep.

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