"Limber Horses for early 70's Britains Civil War Swoppets" Topic

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Royal Veteran	15 Mar 2010 5:33 p.m. PST
I recently purchased what I thought to be a cherry early 70's Britains Confederate Limber off of Ebay. Upon inspection two of the horses arrived snapped off the base. Must be the plastic on them was pretty brittle. Anyway I am hoping that someone might have a couple of spare horses in your parts collection and would be willing to part with them. The rest of this limber and team is in great shape and would like to salvage the purchase. Thanks for looking! Dave D.
nevinsrip	15 Mar 2010 11:12 p.m. PST
Good luck!! Most of those models are very brittle and getting the horses off the bases is almost impossible without breakage. These limber teams were made around the time that the formula for plastic figures was changed and they have not survived well. You'll also find the Heralds ACW and Wild West figures suffer the same fate. The Britains Deetail figures were made just after these and were based on a different chemical formula and have managed to survive till this day.

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