SNC082-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Paints chips and figure is loose from horse.
Del Prado SNC082 Private, 6th (Inniskilling), Belgium, 1815
The early 1800s saw the first moves towards the standardization of British cavalry and the demise of the system which had allowed the colonels of regiments so much say in the equipping of their troops. Horse Guards the Ministry of Defense of its day began to issue specifications of equipment, examples of which were stamped with a wax seal of approval as the standard pattern for future manufacture, and the survival of sealed patterns either in the form of written specifications and drawings, or in rare cases the items themselves, are of great value to the historian.
The wars with Napoleon brought the deficiencies of the British military supply system sharply into focus. Quite simply, the scheme for the financing, contracting, manufacture and supply of all types of military equipment was prone to corruption, impossibly slow and absolutely inadequate to cope with the expansion.