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Can anyone shed any light on what these figures represent, or their possible age ? Found them beneath a screeded hearth in my [late Victorian] terrace house. I've found things in the same place in other properties and assumed they were good luck charms. These aren't anything to do with good luck, I'm sure. They appear to be made of lead, and there are traces of red 'paint' on some. The detail on the better conditioned ones is quite good. The 'swords', front and back, are actually 3D and part of the figures. The missing heads would have had a small peg beneath to insert into a small hole in the figures. There are only these 5 so far [until I break out the rest of the hearth at a later date, so there could be more] and they were grouped together, beside a broken [green glass] bottle, all the pieces of which were placed carefully together along with a perfectly spherical stone/musket ball. Any help identifying them will be great, as long as it doesn't involve 'ginger',,,, oh, I've said that word now 😏😅
