Houghton Hall contains one of the largest collections of model soldiers in the world. They were assembled and mounted starting in 1928 by the sixth Marquess of Cholmodeley. I am hoping that the descriptinos below are correct.

Sudan campaigns 1881 to 1898 :

War in Algeria 1890. French foreign Legion troops perceived by Arab tribesman :

US seventh cavalry rescue a wagon train for an Indian attack about 1873 :-

Set of China figures from the French Napoleonic army :-

Napoleon on the eve of Waterloo :-

Several displays of French flat tin soldiers :-

The next photo shows more clearly that they are flat:-

Eencounter between units of the 8^th Army and the Afrika Korps

The British Army 1895. Can you count how many figures in this one.

I think this was one of a few Austrian civilian and military scenes about 1890.

The first large picture had 2,000 figures, the second, 3,000. There are about 20,000 figures in the collection, of varying scales.