Having had Giles Brown of Dorset mentioned the other day (the 'Good Solders' question-marks were almost certainly Dorset), I am more confident that these are indeed Giles' work, having been designed to augment the hunting sets of various hollow-cast and 'new metal' makers over the years.
"The Honourable member should realise what Dirty Dogs do to Palings"
(Churchill, replying to Sir Wilfred Paling's accusation that he was a Dirty Dog!)
The Sandown pack!
A wonderful scratching pose, sitting and slumped
The leg-up from another angle, three poses of 'actually working', and a darker brown colour variation!
These are modern whitemetal solids, painted in a glossy 'toy soldier' style and would look lovely in a display cabinet, mixed in with the old 54mm/1:32nd scale, hollow-castings. Foxhounds look like Beagles, but have slightly longer noses, are five to ten or more inches higher, considerably heavier and more energetic!
And as an indication of how appalling the Picasa situation is, I must thank Adrian Little for letting me shoot these . . . five years ago, this November, pitiful, on my part! There's tons of this stuff in the long-queue/archive.
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