nid d'abeille

I've made several new poppets recently and haven't yet posted their pictures.  So here they are, all Napoleonic wars era.
  

( Christian, Polly, Kerjean and Sharpe )

On a sudden whim I decided to make an ambulance volante, or flying ambulance, as invented by Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon-in-chief to Napoleon's army.  He designed them in the 1790s, and I've always loved them and him.

Pictures:


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More to come later!