LUKE HONEY'S
In 1913, H. G. Wells published a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers – a game for boys aged 12 to 150. The romance of the toy soldier once held a universal appeal and Wells, an avowed pacifist, for whom the toy soldier was more ‘amiable than the real thing,’ shared his enthusiasm with many other distinguished aficionados: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peter Cushing and publishing tycoon
