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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: shakesgirl on October 21, 2012, 11:15:38 AM
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I have 1 more antique i think. Can any one tell me what year this toy wooden soldier would of been. I think its wood anyway. Not in the best of shape. I think maybe cival war or something.
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Does,nt look like Civil War..well Not the US one...those epaulettes...make me think maybe French or Spanish...
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Does,nt look like Civil War..well Not the US one...those epaulettes...make me think maybe French or Spanish...
Thank you. bought it at a yard sale also, hes holding a gun.
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Interesting...looks kinda like a French Foreign Legion soldier from the Mexican Campaign.
(http://monlegionnaire.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/legion-in-mexico-uniforms-2.jpg?w=372&h=449)
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Interesting...looks kinda like a French Foreign Legion soldier from the Mexican Campaign.
(http://monlegionnaire.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/legion-in-mexico-uniforms-2.jpg?w=372&h=449)
Yes he does look the same But my toy is in worst shape lol
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French!!!!! Oui Oui!!!!
http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html (http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html)
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French!!!!! Oui Oui!!!!
http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html (http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html)
For some reason it wont let me go to that sight. But thank you. I was curious what was on it.
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French!!!!! Oui Oui!!!!
http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html (http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html)
It would have helped if the 1st figure was French....but its not..its Benito Mussolini.....ring any bells,...KC...& the ..... ;D ;D
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Wullie - Look down the page!!!! :) For some reason this site likes to add other soldiers to the top no matter who you are looking for! LOL
These are Swedish folk toy soldiers...the one on the far right looks kinda familiar....
(http://media2.handmadecharlotte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/swedish_folk_toy_soldiers1.jpg)
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Wullie - Look down the page!!!! :) For some reason this site likes to add other soldiers to the top no matter who you are looking for! LOL
These are Swedish folk toy soldiers...the one on the far right looks kinda familiar....
(http://media2.handmadecharlotte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/swedish_folk_toy_soldiers1.jpg)
i did look down the page and that mob were,nt showing on my screen... ;D...
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HeHe.... No, these weren't on that page...but they had French legion soldiers further down!
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French!!!!! Oui Oui!!!!
http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html (http://oldtoysoldierhome.com/miscellaneous-old-historical-figures-c-32_275.html)
I don,t know what link you,re looking at, but it certainly is,nt this one, i,ve scrolled through all 5 pages again, and your Oui!.Oui! French!! Swedes...are nowhere to be found...are you yanking my chain...Kid Creole ;D ;D
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Well I,m not a bloody mind reader....and i see you,ve now changed your tune....now this little sodger, he,s a Neep!...do you need clarification,of Neep perhaps..... ;D
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Dear wonderful, informative and ever-so-persistent Wullie.....would you please define NEEP!
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Yea I would like to know too, I had to go look it up and all I could find is it was a Turnip, and nothing in my English Slang link, Oh maybe I should try Scottish Slang, I have been finding it fun to look some of Willie's crazy slang words up. ???
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Wow that work had to find a site for Scottish slang and found this, just had to sound smart and beat Willie.
Noun Tumshie or turnip. Also used to define persons of a rural persuasion, generally by a gadgie
Now I just have to figure out gadgie, wow and I have a tough time with the American Language "English" ??? ???
gadgie got me this Noun An old tinker word meaning a person from a town. Nowadays tends to be used to describe persons from the Central Belt - having implications similar to 'schemie' with regard to dress sense, intellect and big dug ownership. Used a lot by neeps.
Aggh Schemie now, :o
Noun A person who inhabits a large housing scheme in the Central Belt. Identifiable by lack of intellect, dress sense and money. Always wears trackie bottoms, an Old Firm top, back to front baseball cap and is usually being dragged around by large doag. AKA Gadgie, minker, midgie raker.
Why didn't you just say "Hick" L ;D
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Wow that work had to find a site for Scottish slang and found this, just had to sound smart and beat Willie.
Noun Tumshie or turnip. Also used to define persons of a rural persuasion, generally by a gadgie
Now I just have to figure out gadgie, wow and I have a tough time with the American Language "English" ??? ???
gadgie got me this Noun An old tinker word meaning a person from a town. Nowadays tends to be used to describe persons from the Central Belt - having implications similar to 'schemie' with regard to dress sense, intellect and big dug ownership. Used a lot by neeps.
Aggh Schemie now, :o
Noun A person who inhabits a large housing scheme in the Central Belt. Identifiable by lack of intellect, dress sense and money. Always wears trackie bottoms, an Old Firm top, back to front baseball cap and is usually being dragged around by large doag. AKA Gadgie, minker, midgie raker.
Why didn't you just say "Hick" L ;D
Ironlord...you,ve done a good job,de-cyphering my Scots slang... but you missed the all important connection...with my reference to a Neep,...in relation to KC,s..Oui! Oui! French...No...Swede, little soldier....you were nearly there with tumshie....but you missed our definition of neep, ...which is for "someone who is not the full shilling" = nothing between the ears,....and now to KC,s Swede soldier = Neep = Swede....a swede is a variety of Turnip...which has a purple skin and its what we Scots used for Lanterns at Halloween....right up until the late 60,s then with the advent of supermarkets and from all the Americans that lived here...we then saw the pumpkin take over,as a lantern...
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So then it is someone that is as bright as a 2 watt bulb? :P
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you got it...I worked offshore in the Gulf,for a few years and there were a few Neeps on that Rig,...and they all came from Texas..and Louisiana...and ..i don,t care if i never eat Gumbo again in my life....or smell a tobacco chewin Texan....yuk..... ;D
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Made me L A U G H O U T L O U D!!!!!!!!!!!! Texans and Louisianans!!! (I am headed to Louisiana in a few days to visit my eldest!)
I got to admit ironlord1963, I also have scrounged to find a Scottish dialect/crude slang dictionary with Wullie on here! I bet quite a few others have as well! LOLOL And yes I looked it up also...but the Wikipedia answer made me laugh so hard because whoever wrote it is harder to understand than Wullie! LOL http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neep (http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neep)