Heraldic Miniature Knights

By Peter Greenhill

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0946819270
• ISBN13: 9780946819270
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

'We Few, We Happy Few, We band of Brothers...

This is a superbly illustrated volume on collecting and identifying model knights for collectorsw and enthusiasts. The photographs, as well as the accompanying drawings of heraldry in color, are magnificent, and enable the reader to do excellent research for either his own collection or to start and build one.The models of Courtenay, Ping, Selwyn-Smith, Desfontaines, and other manufacturers and enthusiasts made a visual treat, and the accompanying text is excellent. While I was somewhat disappointed that Britains excellent Swoppet plastic knights were not included, that is a minor distraction and does not take away from either the presentation or the impact of this volume.My favorite presentation was of the work of Selwyn-Smith which eventually became the Knights of Agincourt in the Britains range in the 1950s, which I also collect, as well as a very small range of models which are a conversion of Selwyn-Smith's models and Courtney parts, such as helmets, heads, and stands. The heraldry and painting of both of these small ranges as models and not toys is outstanding and are an inspiration to improve one's own collection, or to start a collection of knights and men-at-arms as soon as possible.It should be noted that Britains has started to produce a new range of Knights of Agincourt, which are excellent and well worth getting and fit in very well with both the old range and the material in this book.This volume is enthusiastically recommended.

The Bible for collectors of medieval miniatures.

HERALDIC MINIATURE KNIGHTS is the indispensible book for collectors of toy knights and medieval miniatures all around the world. Peter Greenhill's labor of love covers the work of the late, great Richard Courtenay and his rivals and successors in exhaustive detail. Exquisite color photographs of every Courtenay pose and of many figures by Ping, Vertunni, Desfontaines, Stadden, Cuypers, Greenhill himself, and other top makers make for as beautiful a book as any collector would want. If you are interested in collecting medieval figures, you MUST have this book. Nothing else comes close.