Tin soldier

Tin soldiers are replicas of soldiers in white metal (usually a tin-lead alloy).

Such pawns used to be made in large quantities, especially in Nuremberg and Fürth. The soldiers of all arms and of European and non-European armies served as a model.

Artists such as Carl Alexander Heideloff, whose brother Manfred Wilhelm Campenhausen and others have supplied designs for this. At the beginning they were mostly held flat, but were later formed plastic and painted according to the models.

Were already known in the time of the Roman Empire the tin soldier -like figures, as was the time after the Seven Years War, the most important recovery phase for the Zinnfiguren industry.