Figure 1.-- We notice this charming portrait of an unidentified boy, perhaps one of his sons, playing with toy soldiers. They were probably British because the British made such good toy soldiers. (Churchill famously played with them as a boy.) I can recall the British toy soldiers I had as a boy (late-1940s-early-50s). They were among my favorite toys. This was before they all became plastic.

Edwin Frank Bayha is an artist that we were not familar with. We ar first thought he was Britisj because of the Red Coat, in this case Scottish toy shouldiers. But he is American, but we can not find much about him. He married and had two daughters: Janet and Joanne Miller (Ron) and two sons: Tom (Kim) and Scott (Tricia). He was born in Philadelphia (1880). He was educated in public schools and the School of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia. He is describe as a commercial artist. We notice a lot of book illustrations and commercial weork for hich he is best known. There were illustrations in St. Nicholas Magazine. He died at the relative young age of 57 after a period of illness (1937). We notice a charming portrait of an unidentified boy, perhaps one of his sons, playing with toy soldiers (figure 1). They were probably British because the British made such good toy soldiers. (Churchill famously played with them as a boy.) I can recall the British toy soldiers I had as a boy (late-1940s-early-50s). They were among my favorite toys. This was before they all became plastic.

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