S is for Steckschlitten!

We saw this briefly in a post about 10 years ago here, when I collaged all sorts of Bonux stuff into over-busy images - I was still getting the hang of this Blogging malarkey - so I thought we could look at it again in close-up.

Until quite recently (17th/18th, maybe 19th Century?) the was no orange as a colour, things were either red or yellow (gold in heraldry), and looking at this you can see where they were coming from, I mean; clearly on one level it's orange, but equally and in certain light it's really a bright scarlet!

11 pieces (I've lost a ski from the parts shot!) come - still on the runner - in the little Bonux bag along with a random, loose horse, and clip together with studs and holes. The driver has a separate arm with literally; a 'whip hand' but lacks any feet, to speak of!

Most of the cake decoration sleighs are beyond doing much with, due to their design or cartoonish appearance, but this could easily be thrown against the German panzers at the gate of Moscow; winter of '41 in a war-game.

Indeed; the floor's big enough to take a mortar, with the crew on the first bench and ammo/supplies piled on the second seat? The driver would need a helmet though or a little red star on his flat-cap, give it a go - a self-propelled mortar . . . but you can't have mine; you vandal!