Well I have done it again, I have gone and somehow mixed my GNW Swedes and Russians. Can anyone explain the differences to look for so I can separate them. A picture would help enormously.

Regards

Petrovich

Petrovich,

The key difference is that the Swedes had 'turnbacks' on their coats and the Russians did not.

A 'turnback' is literally that the bottom front edges and middle edges (the coats had a split at the back) are turned back and pinned to the front of the coat. 

So if the figure has small thin triangles on the bottom of the coats they are Swedes.

I hope that helps.

 

It certainly does hwiccee and thank you, I will now have a pleasant evening sorting the pile out into some resemblance of order.