1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles I have a penchant for

I have a penchant for portrayals of boxers—about as distilled a representation of conflict as it gets

perhaps functioning as a gate or door weight

each individually labeled underneath on one side

Charming little faces all the way around on these small Japanese netsuge

Using nothing more than wood

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid clay marbles I have a penchant forFelt feels to me like time for a blue army! And I love the scale and delicacy of these hand painted lead soldiers, produced by Ernst Heinrichsen, Nrnberg (Nuremberg) in 1882. 29 figures total here, from what I believe was a complete set of 30, with one cavalry officer, one flag bearer, one trumpeter, two drummers, and the rest marching along carrying rifles with bayonets. (Those rifles, and indeed the figures themself, are pretty pliable, so can be