Looks like an axle box spring hanger underneath, and that looks like a shutter mechanism operated by a crank handle, so perhaps a locomotive tender or ballast waggon.
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Great start Tim! Here's another clue
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I have to be up at 4.00 so I will leave you with another clue. Nite nite
OK, bit more deduction....it’s not a waggon, or tender, wheelbase is too short. The articulation mechanism makes me think it’s a large bolster, so perhaps it’s a large rail gun and this is one of the support trucks? Flat bottom rail doesn’t look English, and it’s grey, so perhaps a surviving German rail gun?
Crossed posts, sent mine before the third clue....I think that it confirms my deductions though....need to google it now to fill in details.
Krupp K5 Leopold rail gun, possibly at battery Todt in Normandy.
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Not sure what it was called but it was a rocket powered bomb/mine, immortalised in an episode of dad's army when it followed L/Cpl. Jones's van
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Well done Tim! Dont know how you do it mate. Over to you sir
Elementary my dear Jones. I’m quite pleased with that one because I got it simply with deduction not Google fu....
Scottie mate, spot on but a little late as Peter got it a bit earlier...
OK, another who’s this.....
Cheers
Tim
Scottie mate, spot on but a little late as Peter got it a bit earlier...
OK, another who’s this.....
Cheers
Tim
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Complete stab in the dark - Clive of India?
nope, wrong continent.....and wrong century....
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Pretty close then!....
Well, he’s English LOL
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William Hicks, 'Hicks Pasha', commander of the Egyptian forces destroyed in the Sudan by the Mahdist army 1883.
Is the right answer....I suppose my current project sort of gives that one away
Your go Peter....
Your go Peter....
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Which force does this sculpture commemorate?
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The Dahomey Amazons of Benin.
(I must admit I’d never heard of them before, but your photograph has a rather useful filename to begin research from …)
(I must admit I’d never heard of them before, but your photograph has a rather useful filename to begin research from …)
Struggling with this, but think the hairstyle should help. It’s has the appearance of an indigenous peoples memorial, but which one......
Also, the sculpt reminds me of Disney’s Lilo and Stich, which was one of my daughter’s favourites as a child. Don’t think it is Hawaiian though....still thinking...
Cheers
Tim
Also, the sculpt reminds me of Disney’s Lilo and Stich, which was one of my daughter’s favourites as a child. Don’t think it is Hawaiian though....still thinking...
Cheers
Tim
I’ll stop looking then....LOL