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Toy Soldier Collector Skinner’s Soldiers

Skinner’s Soldiers


Canadian writer Guy Elliott tells of how he started collecting figures made by Bill Skinner of The Scottish Toy Soldier Company

I met Bill Skinner, owner and operator of The Scottish Toy Soldier Company, only once and for a total of about ten minutes. It was Saturday, December 2, 2001 at The Toy Soldier Show London, held at Royal National Hotel in where else but, London. I was there for my one and only visit to the famous show, and that meeting started for me a love of the soldiers of the 18th century.

As a boy growing up in Canada in the 1950’s and 60’s I collected plastic military model kits, Dinky toys, cowboys and Indians and especially, Britains. But 1700’s stuff, never! Admittedly I had the odd run in with figures from the period, some Bussler Hessian castings in the early 1960s, Britains ARW ‘Swoppets’ in the middle of the decade and an unusual ARW American Artillery vignette, by lesser-known maker Strombecker, in 1969. However it wasn’t until thirty two years later, after a career teaching history, that I bumped into Bill Skinner for the first time.
 

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