Britains Ltd. Set List 1893-1961
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Left: typical prewar flesh tone(#1601;Leicestershire Regt.)
(Britains stopped painting in mustaches after 1939)
Right: typical postwar flesh tone(#36; Royal Sussex)
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Top:
Pre and postwar(left figure) Soudanese Inf.(#116) showing prewar
painting details
Below: Prewar(left)1st Life Guard(#1) with painted
reigns, stirrup; postwar Royal Horse Guard(#2) unpainted reigns
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Left: Coldstream Guard
Right: Grenadier Guard(plume on left)
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Left : Irish Guard(plume on right)
Right: Scots Guard(no plume)

Welsh Guard(plume on left)

Yellow facings(cuffs, collars): marching Middlesex(#76) or Royal Norfolk(#73)
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Blue Facings:marching Royal Sussex(#s36, 1323)
Firing Royal West Surrey(#2086)
Not Pictured: standing, kneeling Somerset Light Infantry(green helmets, #17)
Others not pictured: Buff facings: Royal East Kent(#56) standing on guard
White facings: Loyal North Lancashire(#2125)standing and kneeling
Marching Royal Welch w/goat mascot(#74), and Royal Fusiliers(#1323)-no mascot
Click here to view the numerical list of sets that Britains placed inside its
shiny red boxes during the 50s.
*(Advertising slogan from Britains Ltd. pre-war catalogs. Some genuine Britains figures have no copyright stamp on their base because of a casting flaw)
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Published by Geoffrey Duin
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