stormy Collections: toys, objects, soldiers, die cast models, playing card & tarot decks, Formula 1, car & aircraft models, Momiji dolls, Lego, figures, coins, books,...
31 October 2014
30 October 2014
29 October 2014
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Official Product of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, London
Info: The Sherlock Holmes Museum
Scale model (75 mm)
Roman Heavy Infantryman
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Infantryman,
Model,
Roman,
Soldier
28 October 2014
Sarmatian Warrior
Sarmatian Warrior
5th Century BC
Info: Sarmatians, member of a people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains and eventually settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Hunnish Warrior
Hunnish Warrior
5th Century AD
Info: Hun, member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded southeastern Europe and built up an enormous empire there and in central Europe.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Alaman Warrior
Alaman Warrior
4th Century AD
Info: Alamans, Germanic people first mentioned in connection with the Roman attack on them. They expanded into Alsace and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Akkadian Warrior
Akkadian Warrior
2nd Millennium BC
Info: The Akkadian Empire was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in ancient Mesopotamia which united all the indigenous Akkadian speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers under one rule within a multilingual empire. The Akkadian Empire controlled Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Iran.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Mycenaean Warrior
Celtic Warrior
Celtic Warrior
2nd Century AD
Info: Celts, a member of an early Indo-European people who spread over much of Europe. Their tribes and groups eventually ranged from the British Isles and northern Spain to as far east as Transylvania, the Black Sea coasts, and Galatia in Anatolia and were in part absorbed into the Roman Empire as Britons. Linguistically they survive in the modern Celtic speakers of Ireland, Highland Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, and Brittany.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Nubian Archer
Nubian Archer
15th Century BC
Info: Nubians, an ethnic group originally from northern Sudan, and southern Egypt. The Nubian people in Sudan inhabit the region between Wadi Halfa in the north and Al Dabbah in the south. The main Nubian groups from north to south are the Halfaweyen, Sikut, Mahas, and Dongola. They speak the Nubian languages. In ancient times Nubians were depicted by Egyptians as having very dark skin, often shown with hooped earrings and with braided or extended hair. Ancient Nubians were famous for their skill and precision with the bow.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Lycian Sickleman
Lycian Sickleman
6th-5th Centuries BC
Info: Habitants of a geopolitical region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Mugla on the southern coast of Turkey. Known to history since the records of ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Palmyrian Warrior
Palmyrian Warrior
3rd Century BC
Info: Habitants of Palmyra, an ancient Aramaic city in central Syria. In antiquity, it was an important city located in an oasis northeast of Damascus and southwest of the Euphrates. It had long been a vital caravan stop for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Legionario Republicano
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figures,
Legionario,
Model,
Republicano,
Soldier
Frankish Warrior
Frankish Warrior
6th Century AD
Info: The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes occupying land in the Lower and Middle Rhine. Some Franks raided Roman territory, while other tribes joined the Roman troops in what was called Gaul, currently France.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Lusitanian Warrior
Lusitanian Warrior
2nd Century BC
Info: Lusitanians, an Iberian people living in what is now Portugal who resisted Roman penetration in the 2nd century BC. It is uncertain to what extent the Lusitanians were Celticized, though they may have been related to the Celtic.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Lusitanian,
Model,
Soldier,
Warrior
Anglo-Saxon Warrior
Labels:
Anglo-Saxon,
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Model,
Soldier,
Warrior
Carthaginian Warrior
Carthaginian Warrior
3rd Century BC
Info: The city of Carthage is located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the centre of Tunis.The Carthaginian Republic was one of the longest-lived and largest states in the ancient Mediterranean. Reports relay several wars with Syracuse and finally, Rome, which eventually resulted in the defeat and destruction of Carthage in the third Punic war. The Carthaginians were Semitic Phoenician settlers originating in the Mediterranean coast of the Near East.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Labels:
Carthaginian,
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Model,
Soldier,
Warrior
Persian Infantryman
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Infantryman,
Model,
Persian,
Soldier
Parthian Archer
Parthian Archer
2nd Century AD
Info: Parthia is a historical region located in north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire.The Parthian Empire was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran, also known as ancient Persia. At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce.
De Agostini Collection
Soldier scale model (70 mm)
Babylonian King
Alexander The Great
Labels:
Alexander,
Alexander The Great,
Ancient Greece,
DeAgostini,
Famous,
Figure,
Great,
Greece,
Greek,
Model,
Soldier
Marcommanian Warrior
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Marcommanian,
Model,
Soldier,
Warrior
Archaemenidian Infantryman
Labels:
Archaemenidian,
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Infantryman,
Model,
Soldier
Philistine Warrior
Labels:
DeAgostini,
Figure,
Model,
Philistine,
Soldier,
Warrior
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