G is for Gonfalonieri

Standard Bearers! Shot these at one of the London shows last year, I think they were King & Country, very nice but hideously expensive poured-metal!

Italian standard-bearers of the age of the Landsknechts, a German-Swiss word, while Gonfalonier is Italian, I think! Factory-painted whitemetal in the 'Big 54mm' - a silly phrase for 60mm figures! Love the novelty on the end, I don't know the history behind him, but I assume some memento of one of the old Russel Square toy soldier shows?