Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Musikkorps

Hello,

today I'm showing you another Abadie sheet. This time it's an infantry band, specifically from the Austrian Guard Battalion.

I have one complete sheet from the first series, and I'll also show you a variant from the second series. These second-series sheets are slightly larger, and the arrangement of the figures was often changed. This is also the case here. Unfortunately, a piece of the sheet is missing, as is the Roman numeral. I suspect it once bore the Roman numeral "II," but that's just my guess, based on the fact that the Guard Battalion itself had the number I. Perhaps I'll manage to find an undamaged sheet someday, and then I'll show it to you here in my little blog.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Feldkanone im Gefecht

Hello,

today I'm showing you another Abadie printing sheet featuring Austrian soldiers from the interwar period.

"Feldkanone im Gefecht" sheet from the first series of Soldaten-Bilderbogen

To be precise, I've already shown this sheet here before – specifically, the version from the second series of Abadie sheets. These sheets are slightly larger and have Roman numeral numbering. As far as I know, there were numbers I to XIII. Here is the equivalent from the first, unnumbered series.

For the sake of completeness, here is the sheet from the 2nd series.

As always with Abadie, the figures are 6 cm tall.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Österreichische Dragoner (2,5D) - again!

Hello,

today I'm showing you more Austrian Dragoons from Abadie!

The reason is that a very dear friend gave me a missing printing sheet for Christmas. Thanks again so much, Jonathan!

So today I can finally show you the second 2.5D Dragoon sheet I know of. It depicts a general, an officer, and a trumpeter.

And for the sake of completeness, here's the second variant again, with the three enlisted riders.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Österreichische Kavallerie im Angriff

Hello,

Some time ago I managed to find a printed sheet with the Austrian Dragoons of the 1st series by Abadie. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to show all three variants of this sheet that I know of.

1st series, not numbered

2nd series, number X

2nd series, number XA - one trooper replaced with an officer

It's conceivable that there was also a sheet with an officer in the first series. However, I've never seen one.

As is typical for these Abadie figures, the figure size (man height) is approximately 6 cm.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Österreichische Infanterie

Hello,

today I'm showing you a new addition to my Abadie collection.

It's an unnumbered sheet from the first series. I was previously aware of three variations of this marching infantry (without the guard and band):

-Officer + Drummer + Soldiers

-Officer + Trumpeter + Soldiers

-Soldiers only

Now I've found a fourth variation, which, in addition to the officer and the usual marching soldiers, also includes a standard bearer.

As is typical for Abadie, these soldiers are 6 cm tall.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Austrian Federal Army (pre 1938) on parade

Hello,

Today I'm finally showing you the second part of my cutout Austrian Armed Forces soldiers from Abadie. This time it's the series with the reddish bases, where all the soldiers are shown marching in parade.

My collection here is limited exclusively to infantrymen, who can be identified by their blue collar tabs.

Officers, Bugler, Drummer

Unfortunately, I can't assign these to individual sheets, firstly because I don't know all the different sheets that existed, and secondly because the same figures were printed not just on one sheet, but multiple times.

Minenwerfer (mortar) and Infantrymen

Heavy machine gun team

The figure size is 6cm.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen, Österreichische Dragoner (2,5 D)

Hello,

Today I'm showing you a somewhat unusual printed sheet from Abadie. 

Instead of the usual flat figures, it depicts three Austrian dragoons, made in several parts and assembled to create a 2.5D effect.

Otherwise, the figures are also in Abadie's usual 6cm scale.

Best regards,

Andreas

Austrian Army - Marcel Vagné No.527

 Hello,

Today I'm showing you another one of my printed sheets by Marcel Vagné (the father). 

It's numbered 527 and shows an overview of the units and uniforms of the Austrian Army. This plate is also rather "special" in terms of its drawings; the bodybuilder comic figures aren't quite as prominent as in some of the other plates, but the style is recognizable. Below you can see the whole thing for yourself, divided into two halves, as a large-format scan. The figures are 8 cm tall.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Austrian Federal Army (pre 1938)

 Hello,

Today I would like to show you my loose figures of the Austrian Federal Army (up to 1938) from Abadie. This is the first of two posts; here I'm showing the figures with green grass bases. 

There's also a "Parade" series, and I'll show the figures I have from that another time. Assigning them to individual "Soldaten-Bilderbögen" (soldier picture sheets) with numbers, as I did with my Italians from Abadie, isn't possible here, as I don't know all the printed sheets—I don't even know how many different ones there actually were. The only thing that is certain is that some of the figures in this series were also used repeatedly, meaning that one and the same figure appears on a wide variety of printed sheets.

The first group shows leadership personnel with a general and a general staff officer.

The next two, an officer and a rifleman, are wearing the green collar patches of the Jägertruppe (light infantry).

The last group consists of five figures: an officer, two identical assaulters, and two hand grenade launchers. These figures are referred to on the sheets as "Alpenjäger" and so belong to the mountain troops. Apart from the yellow collar patches, there is no other distinguishable difference from the "regular" infantry.

That's all I currently have in my collection on this topic.

These figures are all in the Abadie standard size of 6cm.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen XA

 Hello,

Today I'm showing you another Abadie printed sheet. 

I already mentioned with issue X that there are two (actually three) very similar versions. This is number XA, in which only one of the four dragoons of the Austrian Federal Army has been replaced by an officer.

The figures are in the Abadie standard scale of 6 cm. These promotional items were produced shortly before Austria's annexation to Germany in 1938.

Best regards,

Andreas

Austrian Infantry - Marcel Vagné (son) No.1415

 Hello,

Today I'm showing you a few individual figures that I've finally been able to identify.

I keep finding cut-out, crumpled, or otherwise damaged or trimmed partial sheets or individual figures. I like to try to "rescue" them, refurbish or restore them, and give them a second life. These four soldiers were just such examples. Unfortunately, I couldn't identify them for a long time. I briefly thought they might be Austrians, but the olive-green / yellowish color of the uniforms led me down the wrong path. Finally, I found a picture of such an uncut sheet yesterday! It's number 1415 by Marcel Vagné (the son, not the father) and is actually supposed to depict Austrian infantry from World War I. The figure size corresponds to approximately 7.5 to 8 cm.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen IX

 Hello,

Today I'm showing you another Abadie printed sheet. It's part of the Austrian Armed Forces pre-1938 series and features soldiers from three different branches of the military. First, a field gun of the artillery (red collar insignia), then two Jäger (light infantry, green collar insignia), and finally, a heavy machine gun firing from the infantry (light blue collar insignia). The sheet bears the Roman numeral 9, and the figures are 6 cm tall.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen Infanterie

 Hello,

Today I'm showing you two more soldier picture sheets (Soldatenbilderbögen) that were used as advertising material by the Austrian cigarette paper manufacturer Abadie. This one also shows soldiers of the Austrian Federal Army in pre-1938 uniforms. Many of these Abadie sheets were printed both with and without numbering. However, I've never seen numbered sheets of the variants I'm showing today. The two sheets are almost identical and both have the "Infanterie" (infantry) imprint. The only difference is that one shows only marching soldiers, while the other has two figures replaced by an officer and a drummer. The figure size is 6 cm, as usual with Abadie.

Best regards,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen IV

Hello,

Today I'm showing you another Abadie printed sheet. This time it's number IV of the "Soldiers' Picture Sheets" and is interesting because it's the only double sheet I've seen of it so far. In addition to a few marching soldiers, it also shows the team with horses und carriage for a field howitzer and a packhorse with a packed machine gun. The soldiers are wearing the uniforms of the Austrian Federal Army before 1938 and are in the Abadie standard figure size of 6 cm.

Best regards,

Andreas

Deutschmeister-Kapelle, J.S.J.W. 117/2

Deutschmeister-Kapelle, J.S.J.W. 117/2

Hello,

Today I would like to show you a new sheet of paper soldiers that I just got yesterday.

It is an Austrian band, the so-called "Deutschmeister Band".

The "Hoch- und Deutschmeister" were an infantry regiment (No. 4) of the Austro-Hungarian Army until 1918, but the band continued to exist after that and still exists today. They still wear this traditional uniform today. That makes it difficult for me to determine whether the soldiers up to 1918 or the later marching band are really being depicted here. The sheet has the number 117/2 and the abbreviation "J.S.J.W." for "Josef Schneider Junior Wien" (Vienna). The figure size is 9cm.

Best wishes,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen X

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen X

Hello, today I would like to show you another "Soldatenbilderbogen" from Abadie. This time it is number "X" and it shows four dragoons from the Austrian Federal Army (Österreichisches Bundesheer).

This sheet is also available with the number "XA" printed on it. On this one, one of the soldiers was replaced by an officer in the same pose. There is also a sheet without a number and the print: "Österr. Kavallerie im Angriff" (Austrian Cavalry in Attack) on this one, the pose of the rider is almost identical, but the horse has a different posture and is not seen in side view but in quarter view from the front.

Österreichischer Dragoner (Austrian Dragoon), original figure size is 6cm (rider)

If anyone reading this has Abadie sheets and would like to give them away or at least show them, I would be very happy to hear from you.

Best wishes,

Andreas

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen I

Abadie - Soldatenbilderbogen I

Hello,

Today I would like to show you a printed sheet with paper soldiers. It was produced on behalf of the Austrian company Abadie. This company was primarily known for its cigarette paper, but also produced paper napkins, among other things. In addition to many other promotional items, this company also gave away paper figures as an extra when certain quantities of their goods were purchased. 

I know of three series with different themes of paper figures so far. Firstly, soldiers of the Austrian Federal Army (Österreichisches Bundesheer) up to 1938. Secondly, Italian and Ethiopian figures from the Abyssinian War, and thirdly, a series with Wild West figures. In addition to these single-sided printed sheets, there were also a whole series of individual figures with the front and back printed. Unfortunately, I do not know who drew the figures or which publisher printed the sheets. On all the surviving sheets that I know of, only the company name "Abadie" is printed.

Here I am showing the "Soldaten Bilderbogen I" with soldiers of the Austrian Federal Army marching in a slightly angled view. The sheet contains an officer, a flag bearer, a drummer, a trumpeter and ten marching soldiers.

The figure size is 6cm.

Best regards,

Andreas