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April
Dispatches
Dear Partners,
Welcome to the month of April and
a nice little selection of new releases to add to some of our K&C
collections.
And so, without further ado, let’s see
what’s coming out this month…
1.
"Right Royal Regimentals"
Joining our ‘CEREMONIAL’ collection
are two very special mounted figures
from The Blues &
Royals, one of the two British Cavalry regiments that together
provide horse and men for the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
This unique regiment provides the mounted escort for the reigning Monarch at
many ceremonial and state occasions throughout the year.
Resplendent in their navy blue
tunics and dress uniforms they are a familiar and popular sight for hundreds
of thousands of visitors to London each year.
While taking part in their ‘public
duties’ two particular members of the Regiment can often be seen on
the most prominent and important of those occasions…
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CE097 ‘The Blues
& Royals Drum horse ‘HORATIUS’’
Each of the Household Cavalry Regiments, The Life Guards and
The Blues & Royals have a pair of Drum Horses who
combine the size and stature of the ‘Shire’ and ‘Clydesdale’
breeds and are specially trained over many months to accompany the
combined mounted band of the HCMR.
One of the
long-standing traditions of these beautiful animals is that they are given
classical names from ancient history such as ‘HECTOR’, ‘SPARTACUS’ and
‘MERCURY’… This all-new Blues & Royals Drum
Horse is no exception and has been christened ‘HORATIUS’.
Striding powerfully
forward the drummer / handler strikes out a steady beat on the Regimental
Kettle Drums.
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CE107 ‘The Princess
Royal, Colonel of The Blues & Royals’
Queen ElizabethⅡ’s only daughter Princess
Anne has been a highly talented horsewoman (as was her late
mother) for many years. As a senior member of the Royal
Family she was the first to compete in the Olympic Games and
won a Gold Medal plus two Silver Medals at the European Eventing
Championships in 1971 & 1975.
Among her many royal
roles she is also the Colonel of The Blues &
Royals and appears in their miliary dress uniform on certain
occasions, most notably at the annual ‘Trooping The Colour’ parade
held on Horse Guards Parade in front of the Monarch every June.
Our K&C figure of The
Princess Royal shows her saluting to the front as she rides
alongside other senior mounted officers of The Household Division.
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And now to a trio of dismounted guardsmen
from the Coldstream Guards. All three are ‘Company
Markers’ who take up position on Horseguards Parade before
the beginning of the arrival of the seven companies from different Guards
Regiments that will take part in the annual ‘Trooping The Colour’ ceremony.
Each marker will stand in a certain
location on the parade ground where each company will move to as they begin
their drills, inspection and the final march past.
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CE105 ‘Marching Lance Sergeant Company
Marker’
Only the five Guards Regiments (Grenadiers, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and
Welsh) have the rank of ‘Lance Sergeant’ equivalent
to a senior corporal with three white chevrons worn on the upper right arm
of the scarlet dress tunic.
This particular Lance Sergeant carries
his Company Marker Pennant over his right shoulder.
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CE106 ‘At Attention Company Marker
Corporal’
Standing smartly at attention this Corporal holds his Marker Pennant
firmly by his side.
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CE116 ‘Marching Company Marker Corporal’
One more junior NCO(Non Commissioned Officer) marching with his
individual company pennant over his right shoulder.
Both of the above corporals have two
white chevrons on their upper right arms denoting their rank.
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AVAILABILITY: Mid-Late
April
2.
"Hong Kong All Our Yesterdays"
From the colour and spectacle
of London in the summer to the busy, bustling streets of Hong Kong during the
1960s and ‘70s…
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HKY007 ‘The Bird
Collector’
Early each morning and every evening towards sunset you will still see men
and women taking their pet song birds to the nearest park or green area so
that their feathered friends can enjoy some fresh air and good company.
With Hong Kong’s very
limited living spaces keeping a small pet bird is still a popular past
time.
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HKY016 ‘Typical Hong Kong
Trolleys’ (Set of 2)
These small hand-pushed metal trolleys came into being
after WW2 and are still a common sight throughout this ultra-modern
city. Due to their compact size and durability they are perfect for
navigating and transporting small to medium sized loads of anything and
everything through the congested streets and narrow passageways of this
amazing city.
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HKY017 ‘The Vegetable
Coolie and Cart’
These little carts transported a huge variety of produce especially from
all kinds of wholesale street markets to every kind of food store and
restaurant all over Hong Kong Island… Kowloon… and The New
Territories.
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HKY019 ‘The
Delivery Coolie and Cart’
Another hard-working labourer pushes his little cart along the street
transporting more packages and boxes of every product to all kinds of
destinations throughout this once-British controlled territory.
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HKY020 ‘The Waiting Coolie and His
Cart’
In the old days these casual labourers would congregate
in certain areas awaiting their next task, cart by their side.
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AVAILABILITY: Mid-April
3.
"WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN"
It’s a long way again from the
streets of Hong Kong to the streets of Denmark’s beautiful capitol city, Copenhagen
but that’s where you will find our latest recruit to the Danish King’s Royal
Lifeguards Regiment…
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MRDG009 ‘Danish Life Guard
At Attention’
This famous ceremonial regiment can be seen everyday marching from their
barracks in central Copenhagen to take up their guard duties
outside Amalienborg Palace, the official home of Denmark’s
King.
Our latest Guardsman is
adopting the peculiarly ‘Danish’ method of holding his M1
Rifle and Bayonet with folded arms.
This figure was
designed to accompany the unique Danish Guard Box (CE098) and
is wearing the #2 Dress Blue Tunic with crossed white
belts carrying the sword and bayonet pair on one side and the ammunition
pouch on the other.
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AVAILABILITY: Mid-April
4.
"APACHE WARPATH"
To complete the releases this
month we’re moving once more back across the Atlantic all the way to the
southwest states of America and the guerrilla war between the fiercesome Apache tribes
battling the U.S. Cavalry during the 1880s.
Here are four more Apache
warriors ready and waiting to ambush their enemies…
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TRW187 ‘Standing Apache w/Carbine’
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TRW188 ‘Crouching Apache
w/Winchester’
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TRW189 ‘Kneeling Apache w/Carbine’
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TRW190 ‘Lying Prone Apache firing
Carbine’
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AVAILABILITY: Mid-April
5.
"BEING RETIRED"
Well, as per normal as some items come in
some others have to go out… Grab’em while you can!
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FOB171 "Lili
Marleen"
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MK181 "Hospitaller
Casualty"
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MK187 "Hospitaller
Crossbowman Shouting"
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NA440 "Napoleon's
Mameluk Bodyguard Roustan"
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NA442 "General
Lasalle (1775-1809)"
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NA443 "General
Jean-Pierre Doumerc"
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Great
Sales!
Andy
C. Neilson
Co-founder & Creative Director
King & Country
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