Comments on: Basic Training for Those Starting an American Toy Soldier Collection http://www.worthpoint.com/article/basic-training-american-toy-soldier-collection Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Gregory Watkins http://www.worthpoint.com/article/basic-training-american-toy-soldier-collection/comment-page-1#comment-134232 Gregory Watkins Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:55:43 +0000 http://articles.priceminer.com/collecting/collecting-american-toy-soldiers-helpful-hints-for-collectors#comment-134232 Hey Shaun, I think you'd get a kick out of this: https://vimeo.com/26645299 Hey Shaun, I think you’d get a kick out of this:

https://vimeo.com/26645299

]]> By: Shaun http://www.worthpoint.com/article/basic-training-american-toy-soldier-collection/comment-page-1#comment-134162 Shaun Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:22:24 +0000 http://articles.priceminer.com/collecting/collecting-american-toy-soldiers-helpful-hints-for-collectors#comment-134162 "But monochromatic and limited to a dozen poses, Little Green Army Men had nothing on those old lead minutemen and doughboys produced by Barclay, Manoil and Grey Iron, the major manufacturers of lead soldiers in the United States." Sorry, can't agree. Plastic toy soldiers are cool and those made in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s are very high quality, but the older lead soldiers are very poor quality. The sculpting is week and the poses are cartoonish. Also, unless you find ones with original paint still in good shape or repaint them yourself, they look like crap and are too dangerous to even touch without gloves. Manoil, Barclay and Gray Iron are not fit to fetch a cup of coffee for Marx, Ideal and Timmee. “But monochromatic and limited to a dozen poses, Little Green Army Men had nothing on those old lead minutemen and doughboys produced by Barclay, Manoil and Grey Iron, the major manufacturers of lead soldiers in the United States.”

Sorry, can’t agree. Plastic toy soldiers are cool and those made in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s are very high quality, but the older lead soldiers are very poor quality. The sculpting is week and the poses are cartoonish. Also, unless you find ones with original paint still in good shape or repaint them yourself, they look like crap and are too dangerous to even touch without gloves. Manoil, Barclay and Gray Iron are not fit to fetch a cup of coffee for Marx, Ideal and Timmee.

]]> By: George Kelly http://www.worthpoint.com/article/basic-training-american-toy-soldier-collection/comment-page-1#comment-85782 George Kelly Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:32:15 +0000 http://articles.priceminer.com/collecting/collecting-american-toy-soldiers-helpful-hints-for-collectors#comment-85782 They don't make them like that anymore. Great article. They don’t make them like that anymore. Great article.

]]> By: jack tomlinson http://www.worthpoint.com/article/basic-training-american-toy-soldier-collection/comment-page-1#comment-8708 jack tomlinson Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:19 +0000 http://articles.priceminer.com/collecting/collecting-american-toy-soldiers-helpful-hints-for-collectors#comment-8708 Hi, i have very nice reproduction of the barcly movie cameraman , with the tripod and movie camera, I have not ever seen a original one and mine is the only reproduced one that i have seen. It is solid cast, metal ?. could you tell a little bit on these reproduced soldiers and the approx value. I could send you a pic if you would like to see it. thanks jack tomlinson Hi, i have very nice reproduction of the barcly movie cameraman , with the tripod and movie camera, I have not ever seen a original one and mine is the only reproduced one that i have seen. It is solid cast, metal ?. could you tell a little bit on these reproduced soldiers and the approx value. I could send you a pic if you would like to see it. thanks jack tomlinson

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