French Imperial Guard Foot Artillery

It has been a while since I lasted posted on here and I still have heaps of Ros figures to piant and base.  However, last night I completed a project with some figures that have been sitting on the corner of the painting table for a long time.

Here they are, Ros 25mm French Guard Foot Artillery.  The castings are quite nice and they paint up well:

A Nice Surprise - French Guard Foot Artillery

I wasn't at all sure when I spotted these on Ebay; it was just the pose that made me suspect that these five figures were by Ros. Sure enough, once I had removed the card base the details could be made out: F15 and the name Ros. One clearly has a date stamp of 1976.

Now, this is the first time that I have seen these figures and up until today I doubted that they were produced, even though they did appear in the Ros listings.  It now gives me hope that many more of these elusive figures were indeed produced and are waiting somewhere to be found.