Acorn Miniatures

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Status	Out of Business
Active	1978 - unknown
Website	(pre-internet)
Address	Broomsport, Country Down, NI

Acorn was founded in 1978 by Robinson Cameron, who had previously sold miniatures under the Jackboot line. Acorn primarily sold 80mm 20th century military figures, along with finely detailed "head" sculpts, but also sold nude figures sculpted by Cliff Sanderson. It is not known when they went out of business.

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Addresses

Acorn Models Ltd, Lower Balloo Road, Broomsport, Country Down, Northern Ireland, BT19 2LU, UK

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Base markings

Acorn figures are easily identified by the word "acorn" in lowercase on the majority of bases. In some cases the sculptor and a model reference number is also visible.

Acorn base marking - in this example the sculptor is Cliff Sanderson and the model reference is MFH

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80mm Infantryman 78 range

Advert for range Advert taken from Mini Modelling magazine, Oct 78 and also Jan 79	Advert for single figure Advert taken from Mini Modelling magazine, Oct 78 and also Jan 79	BA1 Dress cap and no 2 uniform	BA2 Beret and no 2 uniform
BA3 Fusilier in number 2 uniform	BA4 Royal Irish Ranger	BA5 Ulster Defence Regiment

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Nude figures 80mm

No listing of figures or reference numbers for this range has been found (yet) so the names assigned to each miniature are simply placeholders for now. Sculpted by Cliff Sanderson.