"Flea Market Finds. Need Help Identifying Them" Topic

I went to my usual flea market this morning and was stunned to find these wargames figures for sale. I've been searching flea markets, garage sales and the like for 40 plus years and rarely do I find anything remotely related to the hobby.

I bought these, along with some 54 mm Saint Petersburg Russian figures, from an older dealer of Eastern European origin.

I have no idea what these are. They appear to be true 30 mm to my eye, so maybe Staddens or one of those early lines.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you're interested in the figures then PM me, here.
Thanks in advance.

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I'm pretty sure the advancing infantry in white uniforms are Tradition 30mm figures.

Old Stadden grenadiers in bearskin, but I think you've got a mixed lot, which was pretty common. If memory serves, Staddens have round bases where Surrens have thin square bases marked "Willie."

Takes me back. Thanks.

Robert Piepenbrink is entirely correct. The Old Guard Grenadiers are Surens, "Willies" and the others in shako are Staddens, which are known today as Tradition 30mm.

The old guard grenadiers are painted as Italian and Neapolitan guard units @1812, while the shako infantry are Neapolitan infantry, regt. #3.

The line infantry are definitely Staddens. The ones on the right look like they are copies…pirated or otherwise.

Terrement we must shop in the same places!!

The grenadier officer in the first picture is a complete mystery, but all the other figure are Stadden 30mm figures. No Willies, unless the officer is, and he looks two slim.

GdeP

Stadden did not make any French fusiliers in 30mm, so the figures without brush epaulettes, and only one crossbelt, are converted from the voltigeur figure advancing.

He made only Old guard grenadiers, with bearskins; and line voltigeurs or grenadier in shakos.

GdeP

So the £48,485.00 GBP question is, are they compatible with modern 28mm? Don't keep us in suspense here…

Well, they are either Staddens, Willies, Tradition or Surens.

They would work with the larger scale 28 mm, I think.

The British Waterloo infantry are just as tall as Victrix 28mm plastics, but with normal proportions. A non-gamer friend took one look at my Victrix, said "Did the hobbits have an army?"

The others – French, Austrian, Prussian and Russian, are too tall. They work fine on the same table, but not in the same unit.

Willies are usually bigger, and more on the bulky side.

GdeP

I find it quite amusing that the usual pretext for metal figures being clinically obese is that the limitations of the design process require them to be. And then you see figures like these, which prove they don't.

The tall slender castings look great but even though they are initially deceiving what I've realised with these figures and those that follow the same idiom, is that the arms are far too long and the legs too short. If you stand up straight with your arms by your side and then work out where they come to… If you were to straighten out the arms of these figures the hands would be hovering just above the knee. Bad mistake that.

Hinchcliffe (spelling) used to have lots of figures with over-long arms.

The horse in the last picture looks very good from what I can see.

Hinchliffe. One C only…surprised me when I first learnt that after years of collecting

: ) Sorry I really ought to know by now!! : )