A real Picasa clearer, or more accurately
Picasa sorter-out, as removing four images is a slow way of emptying the
laptop, but it does unify two related items and gets them gone! The one having
been hanging around since 2012, intended for another Blogger, but I never got
his email and he seems to have stopped blogging now, the other a recent find?
This is the older one, I suspect a French
piece (CGB Minot?), solid, 54mm and
on a substantial base, she could just as easily be a home-painted casting of
more recent origin (post-1960's), she's a useful paperweight if nothing else,
but quite nicely 'drawn' and well painted in a 'toy soldier' style - semi-matt though. I can't explain why, but she
looks more Portuguese than French to me? However; I went with the tricolour for
the frame-boarder!
Thanks to Adrian at Mercator Trading (link)
for letting me shoot her . . . with a camera, seven years ago!
This one ought to be the easier for me to
ID but it isn't! Del Prado did a part-work
set over here 'Relive Waterloo' which
may have had a canteen lady (I'm not falling for that mess in the title!) in
the higher numbers (126 issues meant over 750-quid for the whole 'work'), but I
bailed-out after about issue 15?
The card here is in Spanish or Portuguese
(I don't pretend to know either, but can muddle through the context of a text;
here - soldiers and strategy revisited (or revealed) in
miniature?), and while Del Prado
did other sets similar to the Waterloo
set - possibly from the website - in France (Austerlitz) and maybe Spain and deAgostini, Altaya, (also Spanish) Atlas
(mostly Corgi products?) Eaglemoss-AMC, Hachette, SC Content Media (Hungary, using Ocean in China) and others (that
US/Australian one) have issued figures as part-works in various sizes, I can't
place this one.
Also she's a little closer to a 15mm scale (or HO's 18mm?), even for a young woman (as
you can see from the Airfix pilot,
even the pony/mule is a bit small), so - does anyone know the origin of this small,
whitemetal, carded for a part-work, moustachioed canteen lady? I shot it last month, but it may have been in the storage-lot I did
for RTM,
in which case - probably dating from the 2010's or earlier?
