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The Colour Party of the Scots Guards passes in review, as
interpreted by the famous toy soldier maker, Britains, Ltd. From
1896 to 1966 this British company produced hundreds of millions of
hollow-cast lead toy soldiers depicting the regiments of all
nations. Of particular note was Britains' extensive range of
regimental color parties amd color guards. By the 1960s, there were more than 2,000 toy
soldier sets in the Britains catalog. Sadly, health concerns
over lead and lead-based paint brought this original Britains
range to an end. Since the 1980s, however, the company has been
producing die-cast versions of their classic toy soldiers—though
in the opinion of collectors, these new recruits are not quite up to the standard
of the great originals.
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