Alan F. Kelsey The Essex Regiment Brand Signed Custom 1:32 WWI Daimler Military Truck. Set contains an interesting mobile Krupp’s Howitzer & Toy Soldiers with Wooden Box. Set is custom-made and hand-painted World War I soldiers and vehicles in a custom wooden box that was made by the toy soldier artist Alan F. Kelsey (1925-2014) of Bradenton, Florida and formerly of Buffalo. New York. It is signed on the bottom and marked with the date of 12/01. Alan F. Kelsey was a master painter and artist, who was featured several times in Toy Soldier Magazines. He was born October 24th, 1925 in Stratford/London, England, and served in the Royal Air Force during World War II as a Flight sergeant from 1943-1946.In 1957 he immigrated to the United States to Buffalo, New York. All models are on the same scale of 1/32 of an inch to the foot. They are built to last—assembled with solder and brazing, and double-primed and triple-painted. What Kelsey does is more customized. He buys molds, then casts his own toy soldiers by pouring a special molten metal into the molds. In these molds, the arms, legs, head, torso are all cast separately. It is up to the craftsman to assemble them the way he sees fit, then paint them up to give them life. Mr. Kelsey was certainly an artist as we can tell from the detail and craftsmanship of this set that we were fortunate to find as his sets were very popular. Mr. Kelsey passed away on January 25, 2014, in Bradenton, Florida so these sets will become even rarer with time. This is approximately 25” L altogether.

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