1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks with lid sitting flush

with lid sitting flush

or sometimes "persuader"

and perhaps that "Leslie

and then this great tiny house on cliff to his right

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks with lid sitting flushFelt 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