German army soldier with donkey 🫏🫏🫏🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪⛏️⛏️⛏️🐃🐃🐃🚰🚰🚰

A WW1 German army soldier with a donkey, carrying tools and canteens. This is a 105mm umbau ("customised") figure from Elastolin (20s).

Benito Mussolini walking 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🦅🦅🦅

This Benito Mussolini 7 cm figure(25/21, 25/21 N) was produced by Elastolin (Germany) from 1939 to 1941. This composition figurine has a a porcelain head and a movable right arm for the Roman salute.

Medieval archers from Merten 🏹🏹🏹

Four plastic 4cm archers from Merten (Germany).

Merten plastic knights 🏰⚔️🗡️

Walter Merten Miniaturplastiken GmbH (Germany)produced very colourful plastic 4cm knights in 50s.

Elastolin Lagerleben figures 🏕️⛺️🔥

I have recently received two "new" Elastolin Lagerlieben figures with ladles.It is interesting to see the figure with a ladle in the Reichswehr uniform (before 1935) and the same figure in the Wehrmacht uniform (after 1935).Guten appetit !

Hausser WW1 Feldbäckerei 👨‍🍳🧑‍🍳🍞🍞🥖🥖🥨

This tinplate German WW1 mobile field bakery was produced by Hausser(Elastolin) from 1929 to 1939 (Elastolin, 0/776/2, 776/2).

Merten Landsknechts 🥁🗡️⚔️🇨🇭🇦🇹🇩🇪

Walter Merten Miniaturplastiken GmbH of Berlin was founded in the 1950s.This company manufactured injection-molded plastic figures of Landsknechts in 40 mm size. These early figures were painted by the manufacturer.

World War 1 Russian Imperial Army figurines 💥💥💥

These 80-mm composition figires represent WW1 Russian Imperial Army infantry. These  figures were probably produced by Mars-Hindenburg company from Nuremberg (Germany) in 1914-1918.

 

Dr Kienel and his dog 🏥🐕

German doctor and his medic dog (Kienel, Germany, 30s).

Soldaten marschieren - Soldaten avancieren !

WW2 postcard issued by Hans Hoffmann Köln (Germany).

Happy Friday !

Classic composition soldiers from different German makers of 30s: Kienel, Leyla and Schusso.

Elastolin - Musik stillgestanden 🥁🎶🎼🎵🎺🎷🪈

In 30s, Elastolin also produced standing Heer musicians, including the music stand !

Elastolin - Musik im Marsch 🎼🎵🥁🎺🎷🪈🥁

The Ww2 German Army (Heer) was represented by Elastolin parade ground composition figures that included marching and standing musicians. Elastolin also produced musicians mounted on horses.The series of Elastolin Heer musicians included also quite intersting figures: the Soldier marching with large jingling johnny ("Schellenbaum") (0/47/28) and the Bass drummer marching with drum wagon pulled by a dog ("Königsberger Paukenhund")(0/47/21).There is also an interesting figure of the Mounted Kettle drummer (0/445/32).