DescriptionHausser Elastolin is one of the premier toy figure companies in modern history. There are two main periods – Pre-War/WWII and post War. Pre-War pieces are composite material and very rare. After WWII, this tradition continued until they began molding in plastic with the licensing of Prince Valiant ( see our Ideal Knights set in our other listings) from the popular comic series in the 1950s. The sculpturing of these pieces is incredible – perhaps the best ever. They were meticulously hand painted.
Today, these same figures are offered from Preiser in Germany and also hand painted but at an incredible price and the painting does not match the earlier pieces.
You can own these magnificent figures again and at a very reasonable price. They are unpainted providing you with the pleasure to paint them yourself and to your tastes, and probably make them look better than the newer factory figures. Some of them require slight assembly, such as gluing them onto the bases, or attaching weapons, arms or legs, and sometimes horse halves. This is a hard to find armored Knight on horseback, #8966.
This figure was purchased from Continental Hobbies in NJ in the 1970s when the owner was able to purchase a quantity of them unpainted for the hobby market. The size of these is all the larger of the 2 scales that some of the figures were made in-about 60-70 mm, or 2 1/2 to 3" tall, with the horses measuring about 5" long.
If you have never seen any other figures with this sculpturing, please check out the IDEAL Knights which we have listed in our Ebay store. The sculpturing is the same and I would not be surprised if the artist was the same for both. The IDEAL figures are Prince Valiant characters although never stated and many of IDEAL’s molds were made in West Germany during the 1950s. These are priced very reasonably. They would be a perfect compliment to your Elastolin collection.
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