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I knew Hal Reynolds very well, and for a number of years. As members of the Military Miniatures Society of Illinois in the 1960s I saw him frequently. He and Cy Broman started HR products, and I actually saw their first workshop and received some of their early castings which they ultimately chose not to produce in quantity. Eventually they split, and Cy took HR and Hal started his own company. Much of what Hal’s company produced were not ship models. The ship models he did produce were a variety of copies of various models by Comet, Framburg, Star etc. None of it was under license. Hal sold them all under the name Metal Miniatures. The Framburg copies were never marketed as “Framburg Copy” nor publicly acknowledged to be so. Whether or not the models listed in Sammelhafen are ones made by Hal, I don’t think can be confirmed. What is certain is that some of those listed were never produced by Framburg and thus should not be labeled as Framburg copies.
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As a collector of Framburg models all my life. These two terms come out like this: A Framburg model is a model made by H.A.Framkburg during WWII in Chicago, IL. A Fraamburg Copy is a model cast using a Framburg model as prototype. Primarily, these were made by Hal Reynolds of Metal Miniatures. I first bought them in about 1973 When I met Mr. Kauder (then Midshipman, USN) in San Diego and he introduced them to me. I met Hal and his family soon afterward. Great man, lovely family! If other persons ever made copies of Framburg models, other than a small number that appeared in 1970,Ihave never seen them. I don't understand why Paul doesn't acknowledge this. He knew Hal during the same time as I did back in the 1970s & beyond. I have no idea what Sammelhafen had to say about this. But, my comments are straight out of my experiences
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So far as I am aware the vast majority of copies of Framburgs have been done by Superior (Alnavco). Framburg did not protect its copyright since it ceased production of the models after WW II, thus allowing Superior to use its models to cast their own revised versions. No doubt there may have been other small casters who made copies over the ensuing decades, but I am not aware of any large scale producer of Framburg copies other than Superior.
I also note that a number of the models, especially submarines but also several large ships, on the Sammelhafen list were never produced by Framburg, hence cannot be copies. Previous Message
The Sammelhafen site shows both a Framburg and a Framburg Copy in their database. I am very familiar with the history of the long departed Framburg models, but can anyone tell me anything about the Framburg Copy manufacturer?
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