JKD Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 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 😏😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 lead soldiers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Send e mail and photos to the museum in London. I have had very positive and helpful advice from the Natural Histry Museum in the past. Don't know which one would be appropriate for those which are very interesting. Maybe the local witch lived there many moons ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 look like scottish regiment kilted soldiers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 They're to signify that the house was once used as a local swingers club👍. I tried my best to write a sensible reply , but I just couldn't manage it. Sorry 😳. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robden Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 I think they were called "Stay-up Gods." Once removed from a structure.......it would fall down. Oh, where did you say they are?? 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, ditchman said: look like scottish regiment kilted soldiers I think that you have hit it on the head. Napoleonic era Scottish soldiers - which would tie in with a musket ball. Edited August 30, 2021 by amateur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 hour ago, ditchman said: look like scottish regiment kilted soldiers Yup 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 one has a very early version of a back pack (bergan)...which looks of that era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 One of the Highland Foot Regiments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 You lot have a very strange imagination. There early jelly babies, hidden there by the house's kids so there brothers and sisters didn't nick them, if you had the box they would be worth a packet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted August 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Some good and helpful replies, cheers,,,, and some comical ones too, which were actually quite funny 👍😂 Didn't come into my thoughts they could be Scottish 'soldiers', and help from a museum advice welcome also 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymondley Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 As above, lead soldiers. Best museum to contact for a dating, would be the museum of childhood in Bethnal green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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