Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

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Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

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These must be figures you purchased new from the actual manufacturers (at that time), have never been owned by anyone else, and which were bought for wargaming.

I'll start off - 15mm Dixon Marlburians from when they were first released back in the mid-/late-1970s (when I was still a teenager).
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Donnington Miniatures Anglo Saxons from 1982ish.
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Battle Honours 15mm Napoleonics; among Tony Barton's first releases to North America, mid 1980's.
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I've still got some 1970s-vintage Heritage Miniatures 'Napoleonettes' lurking at the back of a cupboard somewhere, but they're very much in the scrap-pile.

In terms of useable figures, I've also still got some 1980s Battle Honours Napoleonics left in my collection, as well as some superb Denizen sci-fi figures.
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Probably Hinchliffe 25mm Austrian SYW or Rafm 25mm F&I war or some Platoon 20 US and Russians (cold war) 20mm or even Hotspur 20mm Afghans all dating from the early - mid 1980s.

Anything earlier was sold or given away.....

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Panzer21 wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:15 pm Probably Hinchliffe 25mm Austrian SYW or Rafm 25mm F&I war or some Platoon 20 US and Russians (cold war) 20mm or even Hotspur 20mm Afghans all dating from the early - mid 1980s.

Anything earlier was sold or given away.....

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Oh yeah, Hotspur... I've got a load of their SCW figures from the mid-80s.
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Garrison, 1979, Spearmen with shield.
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Probably some Woodland Indians that I bought at a Bring & Buy in the early eighties at some forgotten wargames show that I intended to use for Pony Wars
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Hinton Hunt French Guard Grenadiers from Marcus Hintons shop in Camden Passage and Alberken French Voltigeurs from BMW Models in Wimbledon in 1972.
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My Britains Deetail are right beside me, from about 1981/2 onwards. I've got Lamming and Hinchliffe ancients though bought recently. In terms of wargames figures probably nothing older than about 15 years now after several clear outs.
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