THE TOMBSTONE SERIES

TSSD

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THE TOMBSTONE SERIES

ARIZONA TERRITORY and THE AMERICAN WEST, 1860's - 1870's - 1880's

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EMAIL ADDRESS:

tssd@sdsoldiers.com

PHONE: 760 - 723 - 6583

FAX: 760 - 723 - 6586

TSSD

847 CULLODEN COURT

FALLBROOK, CA 92028

USA

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ORIGINAL PHOTOS FROM TOMBSTONE

TAKEN FEBRUARY 14th, 15th AND 16th, 2012

BY TSSD

THE ORIGINAL "BIRD CAGE THEATRE" BUILDING FROM THE 1880's !!

BAR - DANCEHALL - BORDELLO - GAMBLING CASINO - GUNFIGHTS

TOMBSTONE WAS A WILD & CRAZY SILVER MINING TOWN, AND PRETTY MUCH "ANYTHING WENT" DURING THE COWBOYS' AND MINERS' TIME OFF FROM A GRUELING 12 HOUR WORK DAY.

THE TOTALLY ORIGINAL STRUCTURE IS ACTUALLY 3 LEVELS. THE FURNISHINGS AND CONTENTS ARE ALL ORIGINAL PIECES, MANY LEFT JUST AS THEY WERE WHEN THE MINES CLOSED UP.

IT WAS IN THIS BUILDING THAT WYATT EARP FIRST MET JOSEPHINE, AN "ENTERTAINER" AT THE BIRD CAGE. SHE HAD ALSO DATED SHERIFF JOHN BEHAN, BUT SHE SOON BECAME WYATT'S GIRL. THIS NO DOUBT LED TO MORE BAD BLOOD BETWEEN THE EARP CLAN, AND CERTAIN TOWNS-PEOPLE AND 'COWBOYS'.

ALLEN STREET

ON THE LEFT...

A TYPICAL BUILDING STRUCTURE & DESIGN - 1880's

OUR FIRST NEW WESTERN TOWN BUILDING RELEASE, WILL BE VERY SIMILAR TO THIS TOMBSTONE BUILDING.

WE EXPECT TO HAVE THESE AVAILABLE AT THE MARCH 9th - 10th - 11th "WEST COASTER SHOW"!!

THE ORIGINAL COUNTY COURTHOUSE

TOWN OF TOMBSTONE

ARIZONA TERRITORY - 1880's

THE TERRIFIC, ORIGINAL COURTHOUSE IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE AND FULL OF HISTORY IN TOMBSTONE!!

THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT SHOWS THE MAIN COURTHOUSE INTERIOR. WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT IT IS ACTUALLY UPSTAIRS IN THE BUILDING.

THIS WAS WHERE WYATT AND COMPANY WERE ORIGINALLY TRIED FOR KILLING THE McLAURY BROTHERS AND BILLY CLANTON AT THE OK CORRAL GUNFIGHT.

FOR ME WITH ONE 'WOUNDED' LEG, IT WAS QUITE A HIKE UP THE COURTHOUSE STAIRS.....ALMOST AS HARD AS THE 60 STEPS GOING UNDERGROUND AT THE TOMBSTONE SILVER MINE!!

MUCH MORE TO COME.......

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OUR LATEST SHIPMENT NOT ONLY CONTAINS

THE ALL NEW SET # 21 "THE GUNFIGHTERS"

BUT ALSO RE-STOCKS FOR

FIGURE SET # 3 - WWII GI's

FIGURE SET # 4 - WWII LONG COAT GERMANS

FIGURE SET # 7 - WWII U.S. MARINES

FIGURE SET # 8 - WWII IMPERIAL JAPANESE INFANTRY

AND

TSSD INDIAN PONIES

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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA TERRITORY

WHY "TOMBSTONE" ?

When prospector Ed Schieffelin first set out to find his fortune in 1877 Arizona, the local soldiers dealing with the Apaches and warring outlaws told him he would find his own tombstone before he found any silver.

When he struck it rich later that year, Schieffelin's find turned out to be a deep vein of rich silver ore, setting off a silver rush that rivaled the Gold Rush of 1849. He later named his mining claim Tombstone, a tongue in cheek homage to his doubting friends in the U.S. Cavalry.

TOMBSTONE, 1881, FACING SOUTHEAST.

ALLEN STREET FACING EAST. ENTRANCE TO THE "OK CORRAL" IS IN THE 'CLUMP OF TREES' AREA.

JUST THE BEGINNING OF TSSD's "TOWN OF TOMBSTONE"

MORE ALL NEW BUILDINGS TO BE RELEASED THROUGHOUT 2012.

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TSSD SET # 21

"THE GUNFIGHTERS"

YOU CAN JOIN THE 3 EARP BROTHERS AND THE 'DOC', DEFENDING THE TOWN OF 'TOMBSTONE' !

THEY HAVE ARRIVED....AT LAST!!!!

WE ARE SHIPPING ALL CURRENT ORDERS NOW !!!!

EACH SET IS JUST $ 20.

( A SAVINGS OF $ 18. OVER THE RESIN CAST FIGURE SETS !!!! )

CALL NICK OR DEANNA TO ORDER: 1 - 760 - 723 - 6583

JUST IN TIME FOR THE ARIZONA CENTENNIAL !!!!

SHOWN ABOVE IS OUR SET # 21 PACKAGE STICKER FOR THE CENTENNIAL !!

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UPDATE - WESTERN BUILDINGS

02/01/12

BY MODEL-MAKER GARY FOURNIER

TOMBSTONE # 101

THE FIRST IN OUR NEW BUILDINGS SERIES!!

VERY, VERY NICE WORK BY GARY, AND A WONDERFUL NEW ADDITION TO THE

"WESTERN / TOMBSTONE" RANGE !!!!

( actually usable for so many different periods and places!! )

WE HOPE TO HAVE SOME AVAILABLE SOON......AND AT "THE WEST COASTER" SHOW!!!!

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JUST ARRIVED!!

BACK IN STOCK AFTER A TWO YEAR ABSENCE!!!!

NEW TOOLING!!!!

THE "3 BUILDING"

WESTERN TOWN STREET FRONT - PAINTED!!

A TERRIFIC ORIGINAL PIECE!!

MODEL WAS MADE IN TEXAS FOR US YEARS AGO, BY OUR FRIEND GARY BEADEL AND HIS WOODWORKING NEIGHBOR BUDDY!!

THE REALISTIC "WESTERN TOWN STREET FRONT" INCLUDES 3 BUILDINGS IN 3 DIFFERENT STYLES, AND PAINTED IN 3 DIFFERENT STYLES!!

COMPLETE STREET FRONT HAS A "WOODEN" SIDEWALK BASE WITH "BARREL CLUMP" THAT YOU POSITION.

GREAT PIECE FOR USE IN A VARIETY OF LOCATIONS AND ERAS!!

$ 75. - PAINTED!

ALSO AVAILABLE IN NATURAL TAN COLOR

$ 55. - NATURAL TAN

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UPDATE - ON SET # 23 - "THE COWBOYS"

BILLY CLANTON

AT THE

"OK CORRAL FIGHT"

ALTHOUGH WOUNDED EARLY IN THE GUNFIGHT, HE CONTINUED TO "FIGHT ON", FIRING AWAY WITH HIS SIX-GUN!! ULTIMATELY MORTALLY WOUNDED, HE DIED A SHORT TIME AFTER THE GUNFIGHT ENDED.

THE 4 ALL NEW "COWBOY" POSES ARE COMPLETED!!

THE ORIGINAL SCULPTS ARE NOW AT THE FACTORY !!!!

AFTER SET # 23 "THE COWBOYS" ARE FURTHER ALONG,

WE WILL HAVE MANY MORE "AMERICAN WEST / WILD WEST" FIGURES, STARTING WITH:

"SET # 24 - THE TEXAS RANGERS" !!??!!

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UPDATE - WESTERN BUILDINGS

01/26/12

ROUGH DRAFT PROTOTYPE BUILDING # 1

GARY'S GREAT LOOKING FIRST PROTOTYPE PARTS - NOT COMPLETE AS YET, OF COURSE.

THE PLAN IS TO EVENTUALLY HAVE AT LEAST 2 BUILDING 'BASES / BACKSIDES', AND NUMEROUS BUILDING "FRONT" CHOICES.

THE WAY THEY WERE ACTUALLY BUILT IN THE 1870's AND 1880's.

SOON, BY COMBINING ALL THE NEW BUILDING PIECES WITH ALREADY EXISTING ITEMS,

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FORM A COMPLETE "TOWN".

AT THAT POINT, WE WOULD MAKE A FEW LARGER AND MORE COMPLEX BUILDING PIECES.

STILL WORKING ON 'RESIN' ACCESSORIES AS WELL.

WE EXPECT TO HAVE AT LEAST 1 NEW BUILDING AVAILABLE AT

THE WEST COASTER

TOY SOLDIER SHOW!!!!

MARCH 9th, 10th AND 11th !!!!

TSSD SET # 21 - PAINTED

PAINTED SETS ALSO COMING IN 2012 !!!!

WYATT, DOC, MORGAN, VIRGIL

WE WILL SEND A NUMBER OF THESE SETS OFF TO OUR PAINTING SERVICE.

PAINTED PRICE TO BE DETERMINED.

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JUST 1 SET LEFT - AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW!

CALL !!

EACH 4 POSE "EARP" PAINTED SET AS SHOWN ABOVE - $ 40.

THESE HAVE BEEN PAINTED BY FOLKS HERE IN SAN DIEGO.

MORE PAINTED SETS COMING LATER FROM OUR USUAL PAINTING SERVICE!!!!

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE OLD WEST......

THERE WERE THREE BROTHERS AND ONE "DOCTOR".

ON A FALL DAY IN OCTOBER 1881, THESE MEN MADE HISTORY AND IMMORTALIZED THE EVENT NOW KNOWN AS THE "GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL".

DOC HOLLIDAY

THE 3 EARP BROTHERS THAT WERE PRESENT AT THE 'OK CORRAL' GUNFIGHT

( PHOTOS ARE OF ORIGINAL SCULPTS )

USE THESE 4 ALL NEW FIGURES FOR MANY PLACES AND PERIODS!!!!

CIVIL WAR SPIES !!

CIVIL WAR OFFICERS !!

DISMOUNTED CAVALRY !!

TRAIN ROBBERS !!

TRAIN 'POLICE' !!

PINKERTON AGENTS !!

MANY MORE!!!! JUST USE YOUR IMAGINATION!!!!

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COMING SOON......TO THE 'WEST COASTER SHOW' WE WILL HAVE......

ALL NEW!!!!

WESTERN TOWN BUILDINGS

THE NEW BUILDINGS WILL BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. TERRITORIES OF THE 1870's AND 1880's.

....IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE MANY SUITABLE BUILDINGS FOR THIS PERIOD.

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WESTERN TOWN STREET FRONT

NATURAL TAN COLOR

LARGE STREET FRONT IN "NATURAL TAN" COLOR, COMPRISED OF THREE BUILDINGS IN ONE PIECE. A "CLAPBOARD" SIDED 2 STORY, A 1 STORY BRICK BUILDING WITH AWNING, AND A 2 STORY STONE BUILDING WITH BALCONY.

EACH STREET FRONT COMES WITH A SET OF BARRELS, REMOVABLE BALCONY PIECE, 3 CHIMNEYS / STOVE PIPE, AND MIDDLE FASCIA BOARD. ALL OF THESE PIECES CAN EASILY BE INSTALLED WITH WHITE GLUE.

THE ENTIRE PIECE IS MOUNTED ON A "BOARD' SIDEWALK.

( SHOWN WITH TSSD 7th CAVALRY GUIDON TROOPER FOR SCALE; NOT INCLUDED )

STREET FRONT - NATURAL TAN - $ 55.

PAINTED - $ 75.

NOW AVAILABLE

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PAINTED

WESTERN HILLTOP # 2

( SAME AS "RENO HILL" )