N is for Not Known Nappies on Nags

This has been in the queue since a week or so after the last lot (Feb/March sometime?), and for some reason or another has been pushed-back, ignored or forgotten, not least that I haven't taken the rest of the shots for what were going to be accompanying parts, they WILL be a separate series now, which means this can shoe-horn in here as a standalone!

All 'unknown' with any clues/ideas I may have about them, and all mounted Wellingtonian cavalry types, or slightly earlier/later . . . some may be Crimea types?

These are 'nice', they have an indefinable quality, albeit in a parade or 'Toy Soldier' style; they could be Stadden/Tradition or something like that? Willie/Suren maybe, Phoenix or Rose? Anyway they need a better ID than that, as does everything in today's post!

They are bigger than most, 35/40mm and the white  horse has 'had work' in that the reins have been filed/sanded off. There are no visible marks, but the riders (with integral saddlery) have been soldered-on so they may have marks - now hidden.

B1 - Artillery/Wagon draft-horses, are they nappy?

B2 - Another closer to 30mm, and there seems to be a mark on the horses belly but I'm buggered if I can read it; even with a pen-torch playing across it and a jeweller's eye-piece I can only get it to look like 'MINX'!

B3 - I have a feeling these are Prince/Prinz August, but confirmation would be nice, or an alternative! It's that worn, silver, spray-paint look and the shiny cuirassier, along with some short/miss-moulding to the corners of the bases?

I'm guessing these are Minifigs and the horses for some of the figures in the next few shots, but - again - confirmation and/or alternative ID are still needed for all six. Why four of them have the same number is a mystery, I assume they were each created from the original master, with a casting being taken after each stage, picking-up the code from the first version, or that they came as a set?

C2 is the only one marked under the base; the rest are marked to be visible after painting, and I'm presuming (having already felt, assumed and guessed) that HCH is for Heavy Cavalry Horse and LCH . . . for 'Light....'!

I think this and the following three shots are showing some of the riders for the six horses above, now this either means I'm bloody short of horses, or more horses were identifiable and have already been labelled-up, so are in storage [he hopes]!

While this would mean I think they are all Minifigs, it's clear some are by other makers and one is marked Hinchliffe. They are mostly smallish, 25mm, some marks (in black).

Cuirassier and Life guard types?

Prussian-looking or General/Staff Officer types. E1 is marked inside the saddle '13' in green chinagraph, E2 is likewise marked 12? I'm assuming it's Blucher - with the pipe? E3 (PF7) has the full Hinchliffe mark and all three are closer to 30mm.

E4 is a different maker (or sculptor, with thin, weedy arms) while E5 is an RHA outrider, they are both 25mm to the Prussian's thirty.

Busbies and Bear-skins! F3 has a very heavy, thick, saddle-moulding.

Frenchie/shako types - G1 and G2 are the same figure, G1's lance has been cut free, but he has been marked with an engraving-tool. G7/8 are closer to 23mm and G9 (British infantry officer?) is barely 20mm.

These have all been semi-assembled with solder and given additional reins and tracings, the horse's bases carry a code, sometimes two, but if the riders are marked it will be on the hidden saddle-insides, also they'll not necessarily be the same makers, vis-à-vis horse and rider? I used to think they were Hinchliffe, but am open to suggestions!

H5 raises the possibility that the codes may be home-applied as it has two, one tying-in with horses further up the page and the other over what may be a Hinchliffe mark? Both H5 and H12 are annotated in the order the numbers read across the base.

H8 has had his head cut-off . . .

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