WWI 1912 US M1904 Springfield Armory Hospital Corps Machete Bolo Sword Knife 18"

Lot of 106 mid century die cast lead, podfoot style toy soldiers by the Barclay Manufacturing Company. "The Barclay Manufacturing Company was an American metal toy company based in New Jersey that specialised in diecast toy cars and hollowcast toy soldiers. Due to their common availability at five and dime stores, collectors often refer to Barclay's toy soldiers as "Dimestore soldiers". Barclay Manufacturing was formed by Leon Donze and Michael Levy in about 1922. In its heyday Barclay produced 500,000 toys a week, making them the largest toy soldier manufacturer at that time in the United States. In 1939 Barclay acquired another toy soldier company, Tommy Toy and its art deco sculptor Olive Kooken. Some of Barclay's first vehicles were slush cast white metal made in the 1930s. Also about this time, and into the 1940s, the company made a variety of military vehicles – tanks, trucks with cannon and other cars painted brown. Despite the inroads of plastic toy soldiers, Barclay kept manufacturing theirs in metal. Following the war, Barclay changed the helmets on their soldiers to the M1 Helmet. In about 1951 Barclay conserved metal by eliminating bases on their soldiers, which collectors nicknamed podfoot soldiers because each foot appeared as a flattened rounded blob. These were painted similar to figures in American comic books of the time – olive drab uniforms with green helmets with "enemy" soldiers in red uniforms with white helmets. In 1960, the lead soldiers...

Pair of rare hand colored maps from the 1770's, depicting "America Septentrionalis" (North America), engraved by Georg Friedrich Lotter and America Meridionalis (South America), engr...

A beautiful late 18th century Moroccan Miquelet Flintlock Rifle. Features a 56" Octagonal barrel wrapped in embossed brass. The buttstock is bone ...

Rare antique late 19th Century hard bound, leather book of heliogauvre prints memorializing the 50th Anniversary of the cornoation of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Includes stun...

ABOUT A pair of leather and wood World War 1, U.S. Military horse stirrups. Embossed on the front "US". CREATOR U.S. Military. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1915. MATERIALS A...

Mid-20th century british military folding steel blade machete/sword by Joseph Westby & Co. By: Joseph Westby & Co. Material: steel, metal, iron, synthetic, bakelite Technique: hamme...

Pewter Bolo Tie 1.75”w 2.250h

Original American style a movie poster for Robert Aldrich's 1955 drama starring Jack Palance, IDA Lupino, Rod Steiger. The poster is conservation paper b...