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Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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OTSA 75 Herb Elfvengren Medieval Knights
Join us September 8th, 2022 at 5pm Eastern for Herb Elfvengren Medieval Knights! Questions? Call 412-343-8733
Herb Elfvengren was an enthusiastic collector of quality. This Tampa collector built world class collections of coins, stamps, silver and especially Medieval Toy Knights. He mainly concentrated on the master works of Richard Courtenay, Peter Greenhill and Selwyn Smith, amassing a small army. He especially liked Courtenay Tournament Knights, Greenhill Duplex figures and has one of the largest Selwyn Smith collections known. Selwyn Smith designed the highly popular Britains Knights of Agincourt figures. Selwyn personally painted some of these figures for sale. Today, they are prized figures. Fewer than 200 are known to exist. I first meet Herb at the Valley Forge show in the late 1980’s where he and his wife Cheryl would set up a small table, primarily for Herb to gain early access to the show. Cheryl was fascinated by these small works of art. She was so intrigued by the figures that Herb orchestrated a deal with famed British sculptor Al Charles to purchase his figure molds. Cheryl then started producing her own line of exquisitely painted toy knights. The family has chosen to retain these figures but is selling every other figure Herb ever purchased. Herb passed away peacefully at the age of 75, he is survived by his wife Celia and daughters Laura and Brenda.
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