Abilità - Model Design - 'Soldatini Da Collezione'

VGF Mariti 47, Capretti 50127, Firenze, Italy

Italy

Tel: 351806

1970's-1980's?

Maker of 'connoisseur' figure kits in 54mm solid white metal, figures were 54, 75 or 90mm

Listing (all description could use better translations)

54mm Foot Figures

S1 - 1834, Carabinieri Corporal, Sardinia, Dress Tunic

S2 - 1834, Carabinieri Corporal, Sardinia, Undress Tunic

S3 - 1864, Austro-Hungarian Infantryman in Greatcoat

S4 - 1859, Austrian Infantryman in Marching Order

S5 - 1859, Austrian Junior Officer

S6 - 1861, Italian Marine in Shore Hat (wide-brimmed hat)

S6B - 1861, Italian Marine in Sea Dress (same pose as S6 with peaked cap)

S7 - 1793, Papal States, Ships Officer

S8 - 1822, Sardinian Ship's Lieutenant in Undress Tunic

S9 - 1860, Italian Staff, Major General

S10 - 1861, Italian Captain of Artillery in Campaign Tunic

S11 - 1882, Italy, Major of Bersaglieri

S12 - 1849, Venice-Lombardy, Corporal of the Rifle Regiment (?)

S13 - 1894, Italian Guards Regiment, Rifleman

S14 - 1945, Rifleman, National Liberation Corps

S15 - 1934, General of the Army, Parade Dress

S16 - 1968, Carabinieri Cavalry Officer, Special Forces

S17 - 1943, Italian Infantryman

S18 - 1860-70, Ensign-Lieutenant, Dress Uniform with Colours

S19 - 1860-70, Infantryman, Dress Uniform

S19B - 1860-70, Infantryman, Campaign Dress

S20 - 1860-70, Officer, Parade Dress

S21 - 8^th Century BC, Pre-Roman Proto-Etruscan (Villanoviano)

S22 - 5^th-3^rd Century BC, Pre-Roman Etruscan

S23 - 6^th-5^th Century BC, Pre-Roman Etruscan (Porsenna)

S24 - 1811/12, Trumpeter of Guards

S25 - 1811/12, Cavalry, Guard of Honour

S26 - 1813, Gendarme, Royal Guard

S27 - 16^th Century Renaissance Trumpeter

S28 - 16^th Century Renaissance Gonfalone (flag bearer)

S29 - 16^th Century Renaissance Drummer

S30 - 8^th-9^th Century, Medieval Europe, Oriental Avar Cavalryman

S31 - 8^th-9^th Century, Medieval Europe, Longobard, Carolingian Cavalry (?)

S32 - 8^th-9^th Century, Medieval Normandy, Viking

S33 - 1882-98, Italian Infantry in Marching Order

S34 - 1880-98, Italian Bersaglieri in Tropical Marching Order

S35 - 1880-83, Italian Alpini in Marching Order

S36 - 1923-28, Colonial Trooper of Carabinieri

S37 - 1885, Colonial Lieutenant of Bersaglieri

S38 - 1885, Colonial Infantry, Full Marching Order

S39 - 1846, Papal States, Swiss Guard

S39B - 1900, Papal States, Swiss Guard

S40 - 1859, Papal States, Vice/Lance Corporal of Dragoons

S41 - 1861/62 Papal States, Zouave, Marching Order

S42 - 1801, Duchy of Parma, Royal Halberdiers, Officer

S43 - 1790, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Royal Tuscan Fusilier

S44 - 1814, Naples, Murat's Guard de Corps

S45 - Circa 1350, Hungarian Archer

S46 - Circa 1200, Italian Infantryman

S47 - Circa 1200, Italian Infantryman with lantern

54mm Cavalry Mounted

SC1 - 1848, Sardinian Officer of the Royal Corps of Artillery

SC2 - 1981, Carabinieri of Cavalry, Parade Uniform

SC3 - 1860-20, Cavalry Captain in Parade Tunic

SC4 - 1855, Sardinian 'Saluzzo' Regiment (?), Crimean War, Captain

54mm Personality Series

AP S1 - 1860, General Giuseppe Garibaldi

AP S2 - 1860, King Vittorio Emanuele II (Victor Emmanuelle)

AP S3 - 14th-15th Century, King, Germanic Kingdom of Mainz

75mm Figures

75S1 - 1833, America, Big Chief Mato-Tope

75SC1 - Piero Farnese, Commandant of the Florentine Forces, Battle of Montecatini

90mm Figures

90S1 - 1829, Sicily, Foot Gendarme, Dress Uniform

90S2 - 1822, Sicily, First Sergeant of the Royal Guard, Dress Uniform

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