Mechanical bird, caskets, bath and siege equipment as period details

One must never begin with the bad, so let us note at once that the small details cannot fail to impress. Considered and exact, they create not merely a setting but at times a true picture of the age: what of the clockwork toy in the shape of a walking bird, sent from the East? Bone caskets, baskets for firewood and even a wooden bath lined with linen recreate the spirit of the epoch admirably. A part is played, too, by the siege machinery, which you could hardly see so minutely rendered anywhere but in the game “Cossacks” or in the open-air war museum at the French Château de Castelnaud.