The figures were done by Cofalu of France. Cofalu copied the Marx six inch cavalry and Marx six inch U.S. Army. The Marx six inch soldiers were turned into French sailors. Cofalu moved the molds to Mauritius to save cost of production and abandon them there. Our very good friend Michael Smith found the molds in the Mauritius when visiting his mother and stepfather. His stepfather managed a hotel in the Mauritius at the time. Roaming around the island, Michael found the molds and had the figures run. We were the first to get the figures and offered them in our lists.
Sadly these molds are destroyed as Michael went back to the factory years later and found they had been left outside and were ruin.
I got these from Ric Bracamontes of Company B, way back when. I never knew that you sold them Paul or I would have bought more. I knew that they were from Mauritius
from past discussions of them. From here, I believe.
You don’t see these around much, so I thought I would share the photo.
I have often wondered how these would look in metallic blue. I could always paint a set, I guess. Not sure that they would match with the existing Marx 60 mm cavalrymen.
What do you think?
I purchased this set from Paul and spray painted them blue. They work just fine.
I’ve got the ‘recipe’ down for getting them the right shade of metallic blue! All my Feds are metallic blue. That plastic probably takes the paint very well, too.
I wouldn’t mind having some of them myself in the 60mm size.
I never understood the six inch thing anyway. Statues were about all they were good for.
Oh, no, the six inch guys were the coolest. To digress for a moment, I had the second best set of war toys (toy guns, toy soldiers, Lesney tanks and trucks, etc.) in the neighborhood. The kid with the coolest war toys was the Quaker kid down the street (never could figure that out, he even had a real Civil War musket that we put a bipod on the end and he was the BAR man when we played army). Anyhow, he had most of the 6 inch Marx Germans, GIs, Japs and Russians. My mom wouldn’t let me get the 6 inch guys “’cause they were too much like dolls,” (same w/GI Joes). Boy, I really jonsed for those six inch guys, especially the Germans, they were the coolest.
Yeah that’s about it really, but I remember the first time I saw the Marx 6″ Japanese, I had to have them. The American’s, German’s and Russians were okay, but to me there was something special about the Japanese figures. Funny I can still remember the feeling when I got them home.
Is it hard plastic or soft plastic ?
Denitz
They are hard plastic. All of the Cofalu figures are hard plastic.
IMHO it isn’t COFALU, but QUIRALUX, because other Marx french copies known as QUIRALUX productions.
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/16/86/19/66/quiral10.jpg
http://www.toysoldiers.spb.ru/toysoldiers/Starlux/quiralux-cowboys2.jpg
http://i57.servimg.com/u/f57/16/86/19/66/quiral10.jpg
http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/17/70/65/27/sam_0012.jpg
Thanks Denitz for the correction.