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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Surfelvis on 27 March 2016, 08:12:15 PM
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I inherited a bunch of pewter miniature figures. I have done exhaustive research into what these are, who made them, who designed them, etc., but there are several that I have found nothing have two (2) more miniature pewter figures I cannot ID; one is wizard which is missing his crystal, and there are no stamps on the bottom or anywhere else on the figure; and finally, there is a pewter cupid shooting his arrow. No stamps or marks either. Any help you can give me in identifying thee figures will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks!
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Please put such topics into the General Wargames and Hobby discussion board. The Lead Adventure Miniatures board is intended for the discussion of said company's products.
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Sorry about that; as you can tell, I am a newbie to this world. Thank you for moving my posts. Hopefully, I'll start getting some answers now.
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Honestly these look like cheap recasts/resculpts of the old crystal pewter myths and legends statuettes.
By the sculpt and casting quality i'd say their either done by someone at home to try out metal casting, or are cheap tourist copies/imports.
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From the looks of the hallowed out bases, I would say these were probably produced by a company supplying inked pewter figures to gift shops. Someone has stripped the ink & varnish from them & probably lost the crystal that the wizard came with. Cheap reproduction "jewelry" companies do this all the time. The just modify the figure 10% claim it as new work & rip off the original artist. I have a number of artist friends that have worked in the jewelry business & have been robbed of their royalties this way.
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Looks similar to 'The Toy Factory' - a Jack Scruby offshoot. Kevan a Stunties only has the 'stunted' variants;
http://stunties.com/wiki/index.php/The_Soldier_Factory (http://stunties.com/wiki/index.php/The_Soldier_Factory)