1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles Doe and Dodo

Doe and Dodo

and at the Donahue / Sosinski in 2002 and 2002

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

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

Using nothing more than wood

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles Doe and DodoFelt 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