Knights of Avalon

 

Hello and welcome to my toy knight and King Arthur legend pages

The portrayal of King Arthur, Lancelot, Gawain, Percival, and their comrades as toy lead knights by Timpo, based on the 1953 MGM film" The Knights of the Round Table", captured my imagination as a child.  It thrilled me to be able to create my own adventures for the legendary knights fighting for the throne of England against Mordred, or some other evil that threatened our shores. So started my own collecting adventure.

My reference books on lead figures were always well use, but many times I found them lacking, the photographs were sometimes poor quality often too small. Knights of Avalon was created to give collectors bigger better images, I add to this site constantly, all area get new pictures when they become available, often thought fellow collectors generously sending me pictures from their collections .

Lead and plastic figures by manufacturer.

Toy knights and Cowboy and Indian identification pages.

Photographs and info on my favorite knight manufacturers from the past and present time.

Arthurian Legend.  I have a great love of King Arthur and all collectibles, films, stamps, coins, china etc connected with this legend and naturally there is a list of model Arthurian Knights past and present I think are worth collecting. 
My history interests. Simon de Montfort. As I was born in Warwickshire I have always had an interest in this fascinating owner of Kenilworth Castle. I don't construct many model knights but because of the lack of commercially available knights he is one of my favorite subjects. We are also very lucky in having a very active  Simon de Montfort Society in Evesham the site of his last battle in 1265. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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