For 10 long days One Toy Soldier have been confined to the surroundings of Library Studios in the London suburb of Harringay. Take after take has taken its toll. The brief freedom from the ...

"I started getting on the internet and finding out the different companies, and then going to toy soldier shows," Connors ... with a free history lesson. One man commanding them both.

When the Balkan Wars between a half-dozen southeastern-European countries seized the spotlight just before World War I, one toy maker used virtually the same soldier figure for all the troops ...

The most serious collectors of toy soldiers in the world have a club of ... ancient Greeks or Roman legionaries. One specialist can proudly assemble a dramatic tableau of the rape of the Sabine ...

But one copy reached Jeff Imel, owner of BMC Toys in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Imel trades in nostalgia, what he calls “pop culture perennials”. He sells about 80 toy soldier products ...

So, a non-profit organization out of Clearwater called Operation Toy Soldier has been collecting ... non-profit more than a decade ago, they had one single collection barrel, and the generosity ...

One spring day in 2021 ... he realized the pieces were three-dimensional: small toy soldiers dotted the canvases. Most of the toy figurines were soldiers in the conventional sense, meticulously ...