ISSUE 91 of Toy Soldier Collector has a fascinating article on miniature playsets sold by New York-based Marx Toys.
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| Another glossy edition of TSC |
The company boasted that their sets were "hand-painted in the British colony of Hong Kong," and the sets were apparently a popular feature of many a North American boy's Christmases.
As well as obvious themes such as Custer's Last Stand and Knights & Castle, the company, before it folded in 1980, produced a guerrilla warfare box themed in Vietnam. Perhaps my surprise at that is based on the hindsight of knowing how the conflict ended.
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