Original U.S. WWI & WWII Collection of Metal Toy Soldiers - Lot of 20 Barclay Manoil & Prop-Up Tent Toys

Original Items. Only One Available. This is a fantastic collection of 20 WWI & WWII Era metal toys depicting American soldiers in various positions and situations. These are of the well-known Barclay Manoil maker. The figures are all about 3 inches tall but vary based on the position and what the troops are doing. Many of the toys have heavy paint loss, so please take a close look at each example. 

The Lot includes:

- WWI Era tent with wire. This saw heavy use.
- Strange large sight device, meant for something else.
- WWI soldier charging with his bayonet.
- Interwar officer with flashlight.
- WWI soldier marching with rifle
- WWI soldier running with rifle, helmet is gone and foot is broken off, rough.
- WWI soldier crawling on hands and knees.
- WWI soldier laying down with rifle, aiming.
- WWI soldier on mounted machine gun with belt.
- WWI soldier with rifle throwing grenade.
- WWI soldier in gas mask with rifle.
- WWI soldier laying down on an MG.
- WWII Soldier laying on side mounting MG.
- WWI Soldier with rifle laid on ground and grenade in other hand.
- WWII soldier with submachine gun, hip-firing.
- WWI flamethrower trooper with back-tank.
- WWI Soldier charging forward with rifle.
- WWI soldier on horseback wearing campaign hat.
- WWI soldier kneeling down and aiming his rifle.
- Two soldiers manning a searchlight.

These toys are in good overall shape minus some paint loss and will make a tremendous complement to any WWI collection. Ready for further research and display.

The Barclay Manufacturing Company was an American metal toy company based in New Jersey that specialised in diecast toy cars and hollowcast toy soldiers. Due to their common availability at five and dime stores, collectors often refer to Barclay's toy soldiers as "Dimestore soldiers". Barclay Manufacturing was formed by Leon Donze and Michael Levy in about 1922. The name of the company came from Barclay Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 1930s, the company was later based in North Bergen, New Jersey.