"The Corner Of Giuse"
(MY COLLECTION OF VINTAGE MILITARY MINIATURES)
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"The Corner Of Giuse" (MY COLLECTION OF VINTAGE MILITARY MINIATURES)
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75 mm Old German " Lineol " Composition Toy-soldiers
Lineol and Elastolin Many companies produced composition figures in the Western European countries from 1905 ÷1960 , but only two achieved prominence in the field at the time ; Lineol founded by Oskar Wiederholz in 1905 in Brandenburg/Havel and O&M Hausser ( Elastolin ) founded in 1904 in Ludwigsberg . Method of Manufacture The method of making such figures derived from materials used inEuropean doll manufacturing since 1850 . Pfeiffer of Vienna perfected the soldier tecnique around 1898 . A multipart , accurately machined brass mold is prepared and a cereal-like mixture of wood flour , kaolin is hand-pressed into both halves. A skeleton is inserted of thin wire having been bent to the proper shape by hand.The molds are the joined, air-dryed and then heated for a time , to cure the figures. After cooling , the figures were removed from the mold and , while still slightly flexible , trimmed by hand and hand-painted. ( From " Collecting Toy Soldiers " of Richard O'Brien )
nickname "Gulasch Kanone " Made and painted by Lineol - Germany on 1935
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