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the Benbros set is obviously one that you will want to get for its own sake but I know nothing of the firm or where they were, I think maybe North London but thats just a guess.

He’s the subject of endless books, films and television series telling versions of a tale that’s known across the world. Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe and even a cartoon fox are among the ranks of those to have played him on celluloid, and the names of his consort Maid Marian and of his Merry Men – Little John, Will Scarlet and Friar Tuck - are familiar to millions. Who is he? Robin Hood, of course.

It’s rare for an individual to become so engrained in popular culture centuries after the stories about him were first told – still more so for such a figure to have so strong a grip on the imagination that he has become a major marketing tool for a city (Nottingham) and even has an airport is named after him (Robin Hood Airport, serving Doncaster and Sheffield).

The origin of the tales is in the oral tradition and seems to go back to at least the 13th century. Charlotte Dahlgaard notes a reference to William Wallace as the Scottish Robin Hood in 1304 and Ian Mortimer records a reference in the work of William Langland (1377) to a man who knows the tales of Robin Hood. Both of these imply that the story was widely known by then, even though they weren’t available in written form until the following century (Mortimer).

timpo

courteney

spahi

but I dont know who made it or even if its metal

colonial cavalry

french infantry

knight

orse en cart

hinton hunt 54mm

hussars by britains and crescent

charbens metal

REGIMENT.SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross–shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) was a historic regiment of the British Army associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders have varied in size from two battalions to seventeen battalions during the Great War.The regiment was created through the amalgamation of the 72nd Highlanders (Duke of Albany's Own) and the 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs), as part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army in 1881. The regimental museum is located at Fort George near Inverness. Fort George served as Depot for the Seaforth Highlanders for most of the regiment's life.

Later amalgamationsThe Seaforth Highlanders were combined with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1961. More recently, the Queens Own Highlanders and Gordon Highlanders were combined to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons). In May 2006 all the Scottish Infantry Regiments merged to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The Highlanders became the 4th Battalion of the new Regiment.cherilea metal

At the outbreak of the Great War, the 1st Battalion was serving in India. The 2nd Battalion was stationed at Shorncliffe Camp near Cheriton, Kent in southern England. The 2nd Battalion was sent to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). As part of the 10th Brigade, 4th Division, it took part in the retreat from Le Cateau, the Battle of the Marne and the subsequent chase of the German forces to the River Aisne. In mid-September 1914, the battalion was heavily involved in the Battle of the Aisne, suffering heavy casualties including the CO).

The 1st Battalion was returned from India, arriving in France in late 1914, and later took part in the Battle of Givenchy.

During the war the three front line Territorial battalions of the regiment, 1/4th, 1/5th and 1/6th Battalions all served in the 51st (Highland) Division.

Two service battalions, the 7th and 9th, served in the 9th (Scottish) Division and the 8th (Service) Battalion served in the 15th (Scottish) Division. The 1st Garrison Battalion served in the Balkans. The 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the 2/4th, 3/4th, 2/5th, 3/5th, 2/6th, 3/6th and 10th (Reserve) Battalions did not serve overseas.

In 1921, the 1st Battalion was deployed to the Scottish coalfields to maintain order during strike action by the miners. Later, the Battalion served in Ireland during and after the partition. The 1st Battalion returned to India in the late 1920s.

Both battalions served in Palestine in the 1930s..

In 1940, the 6th Battalion was sent to France as part of the BEF. The Battalion was involved in the Blitzkrieg of May 1940, escaping through Dunkirk on the 1st of June after suffering significant losses.

American infantry first world war?

Britains?

I don't think so, you?

Machine gunners ww1

What are these? Britains and Hill.Help me out here please

what I bought

i bought this from ebay for  3 pounds its a tru craft figure of custer. Im overjoyed as i have developed apassion for these figures

crescent horse and Charbens cowboy

Crescent Second World war lead

hill first world war

A couple of additions to my collection

both are Hill I believe. I bought them for a about two quid on ebay

fruit and veg seller

crescent civvies

villar perosa machine gun

The Villar Perosa is often technically regarded as the first submachine gun. The Villar Perosa was somewhat odd, and had sort of a heavy double automatic pistol configuration, with two 25-round box magazines feeding each barrel and a rate of fire in excess of 1000 rounds per minute. It was originally intended as an auxiliary aircraft weapon but was removed from airplanes to be replaced by light machine guns using rifle rounds. It saw wide use with ground forces mainly for defensive use when fitted with a protective armored plate. A large quantity was seized by Austrian troops during the battle of Caporetto.

 it also aided development of the next Italian submachine guns, the OVP 1918 and the Beretta 1918. It is always claimed that the Beretta beat the Bergman MP18 by a couple of months or a couple of weeks in the field but there is absolutely no trace of its use by the Arditi units who were supposed to have fielded unlike the Bergmann MP 18.1 that appears on many pictures and is cited in both German or Allied reports. The Beretta's rate of fire was estimated to be in the 1000 to 1300 rounds per minute range. The small quantity of Beretta 1918 available after World War I was converted as semi auto carbine for the Forestry Service. Since the rate of fire of a SMG can be estimated↑ by its bolt mass and the ratio with the weight of the projectile being fired, the examination of semi auto carbine and 1918/30 samples confirms the rate of fire and explains the reputation of unreliability of these first Beretta submachine guns.

†unless using a system that delays rearward move or forward move: locking rollers, Blish lock, buffer or cyclic rate reducer.

The Beretta 1935 was inspired by the French STA studies led by Section Technique de l'Armée from 1918 to 1938. Many technical details are close to the STA 1922 that was adopted as MAS 1924 and used in post World War I limited colonial conflicts.

Starting with the 1938 A, the Beretta SMG gained a well deserved reputation of accuracy and reliability. They used the Italian 9 mm model 38, a round much more powerful than the German made 9 mm Parabellum.

Villar Perosa (1915)

OVP (1920s, developed from Villar Perosa)

Beretta Model 1918 (1918)models by amis italy

Bergmann The Kaisers Thompson

The Bergmann MG15 was the World War I production version of a prototype machine gun designed in 1910, the brainchild of Theodor Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser. It should not be confused with the similarly designated Rheinmetall MG-15, which was a completely different weapon, whose nomenclature is often confused with the Bergmann because of the naming conventions of the Weimar Republic.
The two weapons are completely unrelated. The Bergmann MG-15 fired from 250, 200, or 100 round disintegrating metal-linked belts, a first for a light machine gun. The crank-loaded "Kurbel drum" that held a 100-round linked belt could be fitted to the side of the weapon's receiver with a mounting bracket

The Bergmann gun used a lock system patented by Theodor Bergmann in 1901 along with the short recoil principle of operation. The locking system, in which a cam moves a lock vertically in the weapon was not dissimilar to the Browning machine gun designs.
The original design, borrowing from the 1910 pattern, was a heavy ground-based weapon fitted with a water-cooling jacket. The weapon was then lightened for both infantry and aircraft use. For aircraft usage, the bolt was lightened and the mechanism sped up from 500 rounds per minute to 800. For ground use, this weapon was adopted as the Bergmann MG-15. The receiver to the weapon was machined down and lightened, featured a butt stock fitted to the end of the weapon. It was given a pistol grip and trigger grouping instead of spade-grips, the heavy cooling jacket was replaced with a thin perforated barrel-shroud and an affixed bipod half-way down the barrel.

The major development of the weapon came early in 1916 when the Bergmann MG-15 was converted into a second variation to mirror the development of the Maxim MG 08/15.
 The bolt was slowed back down as the original had stoppage issues when used in the ground role. The bipod was removed from the flimsy barrel-shroud and relocated to just forward of the pistol grip using a swivel-mount that accepted the bipod shared between the Bergmann and Maxim guns.
 A carry handle and new sights were also added. When this variation was adopted, it was called the Bergmann MG-15nA, the nA standing for "neuer Art" or "new Model." The old pattern was then renamed the Bergmann MG-15aA or "alter Art" ("old Model"). The MG-15nA saw a much larger dispersion amongst the Imperial German forces than the MG-15aA.

this is theonlyknown plastic soldier with a sub machine gun from the golden age of plastic,but I dont know who made it or the submachine gun
Battlefield UseBattlefield usage of the weapon was significant, but not to the extent of the Maxim weapons. The Bergmann MG-15nA was an important weapon in that it filled a gap in the German armory between the rifle and the heavy machine gun. The only other light machine gun the Imperial German Army fielded before the Bergmann was adopted were the various Madsen light machine guns used by the Musketen battalions.
In the Battle of the Somme, the German Army found that they desperately needed a weapon to counter the British Army's M1914 Lewis Gun.

The limited quantities of the Madsen gun (Germany did not produce any Madsens in the First World War and relied almost entirely on captured weaponry) only added to the need for a contemporary to the Lewis.
mexicans with madsen
The German Army, reeling from the Battle of the Somme, ordered some 6,000 MG-15nAs in November 1916. These weapons were distributed to Musketen and other infantry battalions before enough troops could be trained upon the new MG-08/15 in the winter/spring of 1917. The majority of MG-15nA weapons were actually delivered to the Eastern and Palestine fronts where the German Asien-korps made the most significant use of the gun. The German Leichtmaschinengewehr Truppen (referred to as LMGt for short) were formed specifically for the weapon. The MG15Na was a generally reliable gun which served until the manufacture of automatic weaponry was ceased in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles, but the dominance of the Maxim '08 during the war meant it never acquired much enthusiasm from military officials. The weapon had faded into obscurity by the time the Second World War came about.maxim