King & Country · ALAL098 Turkish Officer with Flag
King & Country Australian Light Horse catalog reference
AL098 “Turkish Officer w/Flag” A very, very popular figure when released BUT had a bad tendency to fall over due to the heavy all-metal Turkish flag!!! Now, the flag is sturdy, light-weight polyresin and the ‘problem’ is a thing of the past. Also, we have repainted the officer with a brand-new Turkish officer’s uniform... Very smart and, I think, better than the original! MARKING THE CENTENARY... To help celebrate the hundred years since the Light Horse’s remarkable charge at Beersheba K&C are issuing a ‘Second Edition’ of 7 the earliest and most popular first releases of ALH with one noticeable change... the horse colours of the individual mounts. This is to ensure that collectors owning the original pieces will know and recognize a ‘First Edition’ piece or ... this newer ‘Second Edition’ horse and rider at a glance. It also allows newer collectors of the series to obtain those extremely useful earlier pieces without having to pay higher costs on the ‘secondary’ market. Here are the four amended mounted ‘Second Editions’:
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What a complete AL098 set includes
Use the model number AL098, not only the figure description, to distinguish this release from similarly named Australian Light Horse sets. A complete example should contain all 1 piece: turkish Officer with flag.
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Search by AL098 first, then verify the seller’s title and photos against Turkish Officer with Flag. The code is the strongest way to avoid similarly named releases from the same series.
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