Archive

Status	Out of Business
Active	1975 - 1982
Website	(pre-internet)
Address	Burlingame, California, USA

Archive was probably run by Barbara and Nevile Stocken [1], this American company produced a wide variety of figures, many of which have been kept in production through other companies down the years. In the early 1980s they closed up and were superseded by R*kiiv. Until recently, Center Stage Miniatures had some re-releases in their lead-free metal Fantasy Encounters line. Sculptors who worked for Archive included: Nevile Stocken, Steve Lortz

Product Code Lists: By Range

Archive

• Miscellaneous
• Base Markings
• Catalogs
• Range List
• Unknown
•  
• Ranges
• Accessories
• Ancients
• Arduin
• Cosmic Encounter
• Dark Ages
• Dungeon Adventure
• Dungeon Nasties
• Elric
• Fantasy Series
• Middle Earth
• Mythology
• Oriental Fantasy
• RuneQuest
• Star Rovers
• Starships

Addresses

• Archive Miniatures & Game Systems, 1015 Howard Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401, USA
• Archive Miniatures, 1111 S. Railroad Ave,San Mateo, CA, USA (1980)
• Archive Miniatures, PO Box 93, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA (1977)

Distributors

In White Dwarf 4 (1977/78) it was announced that Games Workshop (in the U.K.) and Fandom II (Canada) were appointed as exclusive distributors.

References

• [1]. glorantha.info, "Archive"
• [2], "Archive Miniatures (Star Rovers Advert)", "White Dwarf 4" (Dec/Jan 1977/78), page 7
• [3], "Miniatures", "Different Worlds 7" (Apr/May 1980), page 5
• [4], "Archive Miniatures reviewed by John Norris", "White Dwarf 6" (Apr/May 1978), page 9-10