Day 2: at the Berliner Zinnfiguren Store

Tuesday morning came around much too quickly, but with 7-8 hours of sleep I feel that I have adjusted to the time zone differences. I had a nice breakfast of meat, cheese and croissants with orange juice at the hotel, figuring that Ken Bunger would show up. When he didn't, I decided to hightail it down to the Berliner Zinnfiguren store, just a block down the street from my hotel, and get a head start on Ken in the search for literary treasures.

An amusing fantasy airship hanging from the rafters.

Mr.Bunger at work in the 18th Century section of the book shelves.

A view of the front entry from the inside. The walls were lined with shelves full of painted flats.

Some First Legion brand of Prussian toy soldiers.

Some fabulous flats - Prussian Hussars. Can you identify the regiment?

Baron von Munchausen, of course.

More Prussians...

Large flats: 60-70mm?

I am in awe of the painting talent displayed in this carriage vignette.

After about a thirty minute head start, I called Ken and told him to meet me down at the bookstore. I turned around and there was Richard Rubottom from our tour too. I found three or four books full of pictures of the Saxon army of the SYW and a color booklet on Augustus the Strong. That should provide a clue about one of my next projects.

Ken showed up within minutes of my calling him and he made a beeline straight for the 18th Century section and he soon had acquired a stack of books. He found a set of maps for the Prussian General Staff collection of books and gave it to me, thank you very much. One nice thing about Berliner Zinnfiguren , they will ship your books home to you so that one doesn't have to lug them around every one of Frederick's battlefields .

Richard, Ken and I then took a break from books to get some lunch. We then all split off our separate ways, I'm headed to Charlottenburg Palace this afternoon.