Police

Red Box Policemen and Citizens in 1/72nd scale.

I got a few of these several years ago and now I got two more sets.

About half of the figures are uniformed police.

Several of the others could be police detectives.

In rural America, from about 1880 to now, these people could be a posse or at least for the period from 1880 to about 1940 a couple of the men could even be a sheriff.  Many sheriffs did not wear uniforms, as such, until about 1940.

A very useful group of armed civilians, the woman is rather dated as few would dress like this after 1960.

Police in any big city could look like this from about 1920 until 1970.

Even then a simple head swap with a bare headed figure would add perhaps another 10 years to their usefulness.  American police generally gave up the revolver after 1980 in favor of semi-automatic handguns.