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| Holmes figures on the Net |
| One question I'm often asked, here in the Holmes In Scale workshop is,"Where can I get Sherlock Holmes figures?" We've taken a hansom ride around the Net for you, and found the following sites: |
| First, an overview of Sherlockian figure collecting, as a sub-category of the toy soldier market. According to the article, written by Curtis Sleight, Holmes is the most popular "civilian" figure: |
| This is the website of Imrie/Risley, which produces a fantastic line of unpainted Sherlock Holmes figures in 54mm. Inex- pensive and well done, they are a fine way to begin your collection: |
| This company sells several sets of painted Holmes figures, including a railway carriage interior, and a hansom set: |
| A nice set, featuring Holmes and Watson with a portion of wall representing Baker Street. This is part of a set of Victorian figures, many of which are adaptable to become other canonical figures: |
| Aside from some nice figures in this site, there is an incredible pewter hansom set that we here at HIS can't stop drooling over: |
| In this commercial website from pewterist Michael J. Gilbert, there are superb figures of Holmes and Watson in 89mm, and a Holmes bust about 85mm tall. These figures are on bases and of fine quality: |
| Somewhat out of the ordinary, this is a figure of Queen Victoria, part of the Madame Tussaud line by Icon,a division of Corgi.She stands 68mm high, is painted realistically, and is inexpensive as scale figures go: |
| This does not exhaust the list, but I'm sure you'll agree it is impressive. If any of you have figures which I haven't listed, or which are no longer in production, send a messenger my way. I'm trying to produce a definitive work, "The Whole Art of Holmesian Figures." :) |
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