Spring was the leanest time of the eighteenth-century year — winter stores running short and the new garden not yet bearing — but the early-to-late fall was the season of abundance, and the corn harvest its centerpiece. From August through October the ears were brought in across every Continental farm, the cereal grains threshed and stored, the apples picked and barreled, the root vegetables dug into stone-lined pits to keep through the frost. By late October only the slow-ripening pumpkins and squash remained among the brown and brittle cornstalks — exactly the scene this W. Britain four-piece set captures, the tail end of harvest with the dry stalks still standing and the orange pumpkins ripening on the ground at their feet. Across the American war, fall harvest and military campaign season ran on the same calendar: Brandywine was fought through cornfields ready for cutting in September 1777, Saratoga across an apple orchard and a rye field in October, Princeton across the New Jersey grain fields in January after the corn was in. The set pairs naturally with the W. Britain Farm Tools Set No.1 for the implements that worked these fields, the Regal Enterprises Minutemen set showing Massachusetts farmers who'd left exactly this kind of work to march on Lexington, and the matte 1/30 Colonial Militia standing loading musket figure in the civilian dress of a citizen-soldier ready to be called from his harvest at any hour.

Set Number: 53018 / W. Britain Scenic / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 4-piece resin and plastic set