However; for all their similarities (identicallities!)
there are some very striking differences, in addition to the size, are the
facts that the second (smaller) figure, is almost childlike, with a'toy' gun
and he has a huge red plum water-falling off his Busby, absent from the first
(who's headdress is more like a Guard's Bearskin), he has more - the look of a
Doll's House accessory? While the first figure - as well as having a 'bearskin'
on his bonce - is lacking a sporan?
Using Joplin's The Great Book of Hollow-cast Figures
(which also contains solids and composition) as a guide; Nobel make a 40mm one who's close to the figure on the left, but
his legs are more at ease to this chap's at attention, there's nothing else
close.
The one on the right ('Baldrick'!) is similar to a pose
by Fry in hollow-cast, but it's more
of a passing resemblance than the same tool, and while there are a couple of
others in the Unidentified section, nothing really looks like this chap?
Can anyone add anything; they came
separately, years apart.
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