The Collector’s Guide to Model Tin Figures

First edition, first impassion.  200pp, plus colour plate illustrations and various black and white illustrations in text.  Silver cloth-covered boards with brown design on front and  blue and red lettering to spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  Cloth very slightly rubbed on extreme points.  Traces of dustiness on upper text block edge else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust jacket, worn and chapped, compressed around spine, shelf worn and a little soiled.

Starting with small figures from prehistory and the ancient world, Ortmann examines the development and use of tin figures, with specific chapters on the Nuremberg  exports, and the workshops at Furth and Nuremberg, lead soldiers from France, and the beginning of the practice of collecting and the transformation of tin figures into both an art form and a play thing.