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Flat Figures Collectors Forum => Gallery Pictures => Topic started by: errant49 on October 03, 2013, 02:26:50 PM

Title: Markets
Post by: errant49 on October 03, 2013, 02:26:50 PM

An other very popular theme from old manufacturers of the 1850 to 1900, the Markets


I first post a photo of a picture I found in my first book about toy soldiers :" Le monde merveilleux des soldats de plomb", by Paul Martin, which was offered to me when I was about 13


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It shows a Bavarian market issued around 1850 by Allgeyer; I always loved this picture and at last, many years after I could buy one set, and two, and three
The first two are here
The third will be post when I have made the picture


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I cannot really say if my sets are Allgeyer production or Heinrichsen, or even others; markets were proposed by several manufacturers
But they are quite certainly before 1920


Eric

Title: Re: Markets
Post by: marko on October 03, 2013, 04:32:38 PM

One of the reasons I was drawn to flats.  They variety and at times sheer whimsy.  These are great.


Mark  8)

Title: Re: Markets
Post by: nmrocks on October 05, 2013, 01:29:27 PM

The Martin set is pretty amazing.. The amount of work that went into producing such a set!!
Ray