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News & Notes
Special Delivery!
Limited Edition Christmas 2009
Special Delivery! Two Chelsea Pensioners are off with holiday presents for the children at St. Swithins Orphanage. The finely-detailed sleigh, complete with lamps and foot steps, is pulled by a stately blinkered horse under the direction of a well-attired driver. The three figures and the colourful rocking horse are loose, to be placed at your discretion in the sleigh. $275 by the John Sparmblack Studio *
The Village Crèche
Limited Edition Christmas 2009
The Village Crèche A charming addition to any Christmas scene is this colourful and evocative vignette. The Honourable Reginald Barstow and his daughter Melinda are admiring the Nativity display which has also attracted the attention of a local tabby. The two figures are separate, with pins to insert into the predrilled holes in the base. An eight-inch, snow-covered fir tree sets off the tableau. $135 by the John Eden Studio
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"Terror on the Monongahela"
Jim Hillestad puts the finishing touch
to the diorama.
A close-up of the action
The frozen stream forms
a roadway for the Battle on
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Two new French & Indian War dioramas on display
Each diorama you see here is 30 inches deep by 60 inches long and both use the superb figures of John Jenkins.
"Terror on the Monongahela" captures General Braddock's defeat outside Fort Duquesne in 1755. His British regulars and Virginia militia were out-maneuvered and out-fought by the French and their Indian allies. Using the the woodlands as cover, they annihilated the British, who fought exposed on the roadway trail.
"The Battle on Snowshoes" took place outside Fort Ticonderoga in 1758. Rodgers' Rangers, accompanied by British regulars, attacked a small force of French Marines and Indians. However, this proved to be a tactical blunder -- those attacked were the vanguard of a much larger force, and the Rangers lost the battle, taking heavy losses.
The name "Showshoes" came about because the snow was four feet deep and could only be traversed wearing snowshoes or travelling on the frozen Trout Brook or Lake George.
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A view of Trout Brook
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A scene from Battle on Snowshoes
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Downloadable Documents
•Newsletter 2008
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