Last Saturday, as every week, I went to my mother's home to visit her.
After the death of my father (early this year) she’s making a general cleaning in the house to get rid of clothes and other things that she no longer needs.
It's amazing that after so many years that my brother, my sister and I left our parents' house to get married, taking our things with us, how others can appear that we didn't see and didn't know what happened to them.
This is what happened last Saturday. When I arrived, my mother told me that she had found in a closet a bag with little soldiers. It was a fantastic surprise, the finding of a treasure: inside the bag there were hundreds of Airfix, Atlantic and Matchbox figures, grouped in the historical sections that my brother and I did many years ago (Moderns, American Far West and Ancients; not Napoleonics this time).
When I left my parents’ home, almost twenty five years ago, I took all my things with me, including the plastic figures I had been collecting from my childhood to that time. But now I have realized that not all of them came with me in that travel, some remained in garrison in my old house.
I have made some pictures and want to share them with you.
Atlantic Moderns (including Italian Carabinieri, Infantry with Jeep, Seamen, Medical Personnel, Commandos of San Marco and Landing Craft).
Matchbox Moderns (including WWII British, German, American, Japanese and ANZAC Infantry, Afrika Korps, 8th Army and Commandos).
Airfix Moderns (including a lot of WWII units from Germany, Britain, USA, Japan, Italy, Soviet Union, Australia, etc., as well as Civilians).
Atlantic American Far West (including 7th Cavalry, US camp, General Custer, Davy Crockett, Outlaws and Sheriffs, Cowboys, Gold Rush , Sioux and Apaches).
Airfix American Far West (including US Cavalry, Union and Confederate Infantry, Cowboys, Indians and The High Chaparral).
Atlantic Ancients (including Egyptian Pharaoh’s Court and Infantry, Roman Legionaries and Gladiators, and Trojans).
To finish, more detailed pictures of some Airfix sets, beginning with the Station Accessories (first made in 1958, according to PSR).
Civilians (from 1961).
WWII US Marines first type (from 1963).
WWII British Commandos (from 1968).
The High Chaparral (from 1971)
WWII British Infantry (also from 1971)
I hope you have liked “my treasure”. Thanks for watching.
Santi.