Original owner’s vintage (early
1950’s) TIMPO (England) large format, WWII American GI Infantry lot of forty-two
(42) figures. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. All items were purchased by the owner’s
parents at F.A.O. Schwarz, Fifth Avenue, NYC. Specific pieces’ descriptions are
as follows:
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54 mm size (1/32nd), hollow-cast
lead, original castings, and painting.
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All forty-two (42) figures have
retained their original rich, vibrant paint colors. None of the figures have
been repainted, modified, or repaired. None of the figures have any dents,
cracks, or damage.
·
All forty-two (42) figures stand
or sit upright like new, on their own, with no warbling or unbalance.
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The Lot figures are as follows:
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Two (2) standing officers looking
through binoculars.
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Two (2) kneeling officers holding
pistol, waving men forward.
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One (1) officer in kneeling
position, holding right arm up.
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One (1) officer squatting, talking
on radio, holding document in left hand.
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One (1) Kneeling GI on radio.
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One (1) GI mine sweeper.
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One (1) wounded soldier on stretcher.
NOTE – stretcher lacks its 4 handles.
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Two (2) stretcher carriers.
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One (1) standing, wounded GI.
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Two (2) mortarmen without
separate mortar pieces.
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Two (2) sitting machine
gunners.
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One (1) GI charging with
submachinegun.
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Three (3) low-crawling GI’s.
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Three (3) kneeling bazooka men.
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Three (3) GI’s throwing
grenades.
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Three (3) charging GI’s
w/rifles.
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Three (3) standing, aiming
riflemen.
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Four (4) kneeling, aiming
riflemen.
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Three (3) walking GI’s holding equipment.
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Three (3) GI’s standing “at
ease”.
Please
review the twenty-four (24) photographs to assist in your assessment of the forty-two
(42) figures’ condition. Always kept in no-smoking homes. Shipping cost includes additional USPS liability coverage for the full purchase amount. Thank you for viewing this post.
Background – Timpo Toys Ltd. (“Toy Importers
Company”) was a British toy company created in 1938 by Salomon “Sally”
Gawrylovitz, a Jewish refugee from Germany. The company manufactured various
toys out of wood, bakelite and composition until the end of WWII. Following the
war, Timpo made hollow cast metal toy soldiers, with soldiers manufactured in
plastic starting in 1955. Between 1946 and 1954, and with the assistance
of Roy Selwyn Smith, Timpo produced some of the best, high quality, detailed post-war
hollow cast toy soldiers in the world. Timpo had a factory in Schotts,
Lanarkshire. The company ceased operations in 1978.