VTG (EARLY 50’S) TIMPO (ENGLAND) METAL WWII GI’S - 42 FIGURES’ LOT

Description: Original owner’s vintage (early 1950’s) TIMPO (England) large format, WWII American GI Infantry lot of forty-two (42) figures. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. All items were purchased by the owner’s parents at F.A.O. Schwarz, Fifth Avenue, NYC. Specific pieces’ descriptions are as follows: · 54 mm size (1/32nd), hollow-cast lead, original castings, and painting. · All forty-two (42) figures have retained their original rich, vibrant paint colors. None of the figures have been repainted, modified, or repaired. None of the figures have any dents, cracks, or damage. · All forty-two (42) figures stand or sit upright like new, on their own, with no warbling or unbalance. · The Lot figures are as follows: · Two (2) standing officers looking through binoculars. · Two (2) kneeling officers holding pistol, waving men forward. · One (1) officer in kneeling position, holding right arm up. · One (1) officer squatting, talking on radio, holding document in left hand. · One (1) Kneeling GI on radio. · One (1) GI mine sweeper. · One (1) wounded soldier on stretcher. NOTE – stretcher lacks its 4 handles. · Two (2) stretcher carriers. · One (1) standing, wounded GI. · Two (2) mortarmen without separate mortar pieces. · Two (2) sitting machine gunners. · One (1) GI charging with submachinegun. · Three (3) low-crawling GI’s. · Three (3) kneeling bazooka men. · Three (3) GI’s throwing grenades. · Three (3) charging GI’s w/rifles. · Three (3) standing, aiming riflemen. · Four (4) kneeling, aiming riflemen. · Three (3) walking GI’s holding equipment. · Three (3) GI’s standing “at ease”. Please review the twenty-four (24) photographs to assist in your assessment of the forty-two (42) figures’ condition. Always kept in no-smoking homes. Shipping cost includes additional USPS liability coverage for the full purchase amount. Thank you for viewing this post. Background – Timpo Toys Ltd. (“Toy Importers Company”) was a British toy company created in 1938 by Salomon “Sally” Gawrylovitz, a Jewish refugee from Germany. The company manufactured various toys out of wood, bakelite and composition until the end of WWII. Following the war, Timpo made hollow cast metal toy soldiers, with soldiers manufactured in plastic starting in 1955. Between 1946 and 1954, and with the assistance of Roy Selwyn Smith, Timpo produced some of the best, high quality, detailed post-war hollow cast toy soldiers in the world. Timpo had a factory in Schotts, Lanarkshire. The company ceased operations in 1978.

Price: 695 USD

Location: Marietta, Georgia

End Time: 2024-09-26T03:02:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 22.5 USD