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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: lostboy on 12 April 2008, 08:39:59 PM

Title: Sandwich Board Men ?
Post by: lostboy on 12 April 2008, 08:39:59 PM

Just came across this in a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson :

" The Pall Mall Gazette advertised "The Body Snatcher" at Xmas 1884, by sending six sandwich-board men around the streets of London...wearing coffin-shaped boards and plaster skulls specially made by a theatre property company - until the police "suppressed the nuisance."

Sounds just like a game with different factions of police, decoy sandwich-board men, zombie sandwich-board-men, vampire hunters etc...

Now does anybody make sandwich board-men ???

Title: Sandwich Board Men ?
Post by: fritzy on 12 April 2008, 08:51:37 PM

Foundry do one in there Victorian Specials Collection, no. VN33 Bill Stickers Sandwichboard man @ £5

   Hope this helps

   Cheers

    Fritzy

Title: Sandwich Board Men ?
Post by: Chairface on 12 April 2008, 09:02:18 PM

Just got one this week!

(http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/e4/21/c790_1.JPG)

Although I would be tempted to convert some myself, for the coffins and the skulls.

Title: Sandwich Board Men ?
Post by: lostboy on 12 April 2008, 10:05:50 PM

Thanks very much !  :)