The next installment... I do need single examples of the ones that are missing please! These were produced from 1968 as far as we can work out. The sculptor was probably Dick Higgs. There appears to different names associated with the codes so there may have been resculpts going on.
Quote from Vintage Wargaming;
These figures first appeared in autumn 1966. In 1968 when the S range ancient figures were launched the 20mm figure selection was renamed the JonBee range in honour of the designer John Braithwaite. They disappeared shortly afterwards possibly because Braithwaite had launched his own Garrison range.
Infantry
AA 1 Noble, full mail, firing bow / AA 1s Assyrian officer
(AA1 on the base)
AA 2s Assyrian Standard Bearer
?
AA 3 Light infantry throwing spear
?
AA 4s Assyrian Heavy Archer Firing Bow
AA 5 Light archer firing bow
?
AA 6s Assyrian Heavy Slinger
AA 7s Light spearman with Shield Advancing
AA 8 Light archer
?
AA 9 Light swordsman
?
AA 10 Standard bodyguard swordsman
?
AA 11 Standard bodyguard clubman
?
AA 12s Assyrian Heavy Spearman Charging
AA 13 Assyrian charioteer
?
AA 15s Assyrian Medium Archer
AA 16s Assyrian Javelinman
AA 17s Assyrian Wicker Shield
?
Cavalry
AAC 1s Assyrian Lancer
AAC 2s Assyrian Horse Archer
AAC 3s Assyrian or Parthian Half Armoured Cataphract
AAC 4s Assyrian Chariot
?
Listings and id compiled via the 1972/73 catalogues, Wargamer's Newsletter and;
and
http://www.vintagewargamingfigures.info/rblack/minilist20.htm
All credit to them both. More research required to fill the gaps!
Wargamer's Newsletter May 1968 ad introducing the 'Special' or S range...
Cavalry Horses 25mm "S" Range
ACH 1s Half Armoured Cavalry Horse
?
ACH 2s Fully Armoured Cataphract Horse
?
ACH 3s Ancient Britain Chariot Horse
?
ACH 4s Eqyptian Chariot Horse
