1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles Charming little faces all the

Charming little faces all the way around on these small Japanese netsuge

I have a penchant for portrayals of boxers—about as distilled a representation of conflict as it gets

with the gold bordered "handshake" pin at top and "all seeing eye" at center

Doe and Dodo

There are just a couple of spots where an edge is a bit more worn/irregular

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles Charming little faces all theFelt feels to me like time for a blue army! And I love the scale and delicacy of these hand painted lead soldiers, produced by Ernst Heinrichsen, Nrnberg (Nuremberg) in 1882. 29 figures total here, from what I believe was a complete set of 30, with one cavalry officer, one flag bearer, one trumpeter, two drummers, and the rest marching along carrying rifles with bayonets. (Those rifles, and indeed the figures themself, are pretty pliable, so can be