We all have a lot of figures for wargaming. You cannot keep collecting and painting figures for thirty years without collecting more that a few figures that really do not belong in the collection any longer.
My collection includes about three shelves of 54mm collectible figures. Most of them are from the Seven Years War or the Napoleonic wars. They came to me as part of a collection from a gamer that recently passed. It is my job to sell them off for his estate.
"Soldats de Plomb & Figurne Civiles" by Christian Blondie is a publication written in french and english. It discusses the history of the CBG Mignot company and its predecessors dating back to the 1850s. The original figures were often paper. Metal figures were more common in the 20th century. For a time the company produced aluminum figures. Figures were originally made in a variety of sizes from a number of independent makers. Tin figures really began in Paris in the 1870s, produced as a by product of a tin casting company, C.B.G., that made a variety of objects for the home. The C.B.G. company started out producing a foot soldier "at attention." By the 1920s, Henri Mignot owned and operated the C.B.G. company and was primarily focused on military figures in a variety of sizes.
The French made figures are expensive today. C.B.G. Mignot competes with figures from Britians, Ltd. and similar manufacturers. The collectors market is very small. The sales of these figures on ebay has been modest, even at the significantly discounted price offered.
A photo of some of the figures that need to be sold. There are actually three shelves of such figures, many are not Mignot figures but all of them are very well done. However, at the end of the day, one must focus on collecting figures they need for their own collection. I simply have no need for a new scale of figures. Therefore they must go.
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