International Flat Figure Society - British Flat Figure Society
Flat Figures Painters Forum => Review Section => Flat Figure Sets => Topic started by: marko on March 20, 2025, 02:43:25 PM
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This is a nice set from Retter illustrating Gottleib Daimler tries out his motorcycle in the streets of Cannstatt, Cannstatt being in Stuttgart and Daimler's vehicle being called a riding car initially.
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The motorcycle is a quite faithful reproduction of the actual vehicle
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Normally not my area of interest but, i saw this exquisite paint job in an ebay auction which mixed in some figures from one of Hafer's sets.
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What is also quite interesting is you will notice in picture two the 4th figure from the left shows a young man and then two legs. These appear as a figure cut off and show up in the catalog as well. They are in the painted examples and probably are meant to represent boots but, appear as a figure broken off at the ankles at first glance.
An interesting bit of history which is again what makes flat collecting fun!
mark
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Very informative and interesting, the painted set is indeed exquisite. Great stuff
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Huh-huuh!! ::)
What unique figures they are!
Thank you for showing!
Sandor