1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks one with petals open toward

one with petals open toward us

With the most beautiful ink and colored pencil drawings/diagrams throughout

and perhaps that "Leslie

shown in first photos

There is a bit of loss at the top of the hanger

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks one with petals open towardFelt feels to me like time for a blue army! And I love the scale and delicacy of these hand painted lead soldiers, produced by Ernst Heinrichsen, Nrnberg (Nuremberg) in 1882. 29 figures total here, from what I believe was a complete set of 30, with one cavalry officer, one flag bearer, one trumpeter, two drummers, and the rest marching along carrying rifles with bayonets. (Those rifles, and indeed the figures themself, are pretty pliable, so can be