An 1820s Seiffen/Olberhau region turned wooden scissor toy of Hussar soldiers, twelve men with peg noses and painted moustaches, red painted jackets with yellow frogging, black shako hats with red plumes and large yellow R and red trousers, separate legs, circular bases with a hole, mounted on a scissor base, in original split wood box indistinctly inscribed, but a clear date of 1825— see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 316, fig 1 for these actual models