Hello,
Today I'm showing another figure from Gustav Kühn.
It's an officer using a field telescope (Scherenfernrohr), from print sheet 10283 "German Reichswehr - Field Artillery".
I've already shown several Gustav Kühn figures, but this one is actually the very first one that I can definitively say came from a contemporary print sheet, and wasn't printed as an advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.
The figure was mounted on plywood and is 10cm tall.
Best regards,
Andreas
Hello,
Today I'm showing you another loose figure from my Wehrmacht collection.
This time it's an aircraft from the early days of the German Air Force. Such aircraft were featured on the print sheet 10287 "Fliegertruppe mit Flugzeugen" (Air Force with Aircraft) by Gustav Kühn. I'm not entirely sure, but I think this figure is more likely a contemporary magazine insert or something similar, rather than a cutout from a commercial print sheet. At the very least, the quality is poorer than comparable figures by Gustav Kühn from that time.
The figure is 17 cm long and 7.5 cm high.
Best regards,
Andreas
Hello,
Today I'm showing you some more figures by Gustav Kühn.
At least these figures again correspond to the illustrations from a commercial printed sheet from this publisher. However, these soldiers are again slightly reduced in size and printed on newsprint, so they probably come from a contemporary youth magazine.
The original plate is titled "Standing Infantry and Pioneers" and numbered 10292.
The figures are about 7.5 cm tall.
Best regards,
Andreas
Hello,
Today I'm showing you some single cut soldiers again.
It's a group of seven musicians in Wehrmacht uniforms. The same soldiers appeared in a Gustav Kühn sheet numbered 10291 as the "Infanterie-Musikkapelle" (Infantry Band). But these figures here certainly don't come from such a sheet. For one thing, the figures are smaller than I would expect from Kühn, and for another, they are printed in very poor quality on a type of newsprint. I suspect they come from a German youth magazine or newspaper from the 1940s.
The figures are about 6.5 cm tall.
Best regards,
Andreas
Hello,
Today I would like to show you two gun groups that I was able to purchase recently. The figures are known from the Gustav Kühn sheet no. 10285. There they are referred to as "Leichter Minenwerfer" (Light Mine Thrower - that is the light infantry gun 18) and "Schwere Haubitze" (Heavy Howitzer). The Gustav Kühn sheet also contains a third gun, the "Gebirgs-Haubitze" (Mountain Howitzer).
But these figures certainly do not come from this sheet. They are more likely to have been printed in a newspaper, a brochure or as advertising material. Firstly, they are printed on very poor, thin paper, and secondly, they were only printed with three colors (cyan, magenta, yellow) - although the cyan was not aligned correctly.
The figure size is approx. 6cm.
Best regards,
Andreas
Schwedische Infanterie, Gustav Kühn, Neuruppin Nr.8842
Hello,
I actually wanted to show you the second part of my new Reichswehr music band today. However, some of the figures were damaged and needed a little improvement.
In the meantime, I would like to show you this old print sheet by Gustav Kühn with Swedish infantry. The soldiers are wearing the single-breasted coat that was introduced in Sweden in 1886. In terms of uniforms, the sheet shows the period between 1890 and 1910. Rafael de Franzisco López also dates Kühn picture sheets with 8000 numbers for the period up to 1900. It is interesting that each of the 15 figures is different. The figures are between 9.5 and 10 cm in size.
Best wishes,
Andreas
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