1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks with Patty Cake to boot

with Patty Cake to boot

and then this great tiny house on cliff to his right

and perhaps that "Leslie

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

shown in first photos

1880s Ernst Heinrichsen German Painted Lead Soldiers Set with Original Box Lid solid wood blocks with Patty Cake to bootFelt 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