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Antique store finds; another step outside the box (of my collection theme)
Topic Started: Sep 14 2016, 10:52 AM (258 Views)
b2young
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Stopped in at an odd little antique shop I've passed by for years (an old two-story log cabin) yesterday only to find they're closing the store. A few toy cars was all that was left. The proprietor knocked the price down on three Lesney yesteryear models by more than 3/4 and I couldn't resist.

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Y4 Shand Mason fire engine....the most common of the casting (I'm up to at least 5 of this same model....3 with original box), in London Fire Brigade No 72 livery. Obviously missing the 3 firemen, but I still couldn't resist bringing another one home with me; No. 14, Duke of Connaught 4-2-2 locomotive engine, the very first Lesney locomotive in my collection(!); and the No. 12 Horse-drawn bus in very near mint condition. No boxes for any, but the condition is still really good on each, and the Shand-Mason has a factory "error" with the decal on one side, which somehow endears it to me more.

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There's the poorly-placed decal on the fire engine....but the Bus has all decals intact and bright, very few paint chips anywhere, and the locomotive has playwear but the decals are all there.

The one online price guide I referenced (the first google result) says the Bus in this condition is worth between $20-30; the Shand-Mason about what I paid; and the locomotive around $13-17 with this amount of wear (lack of boxes taken into consideration on the site). I paid $10 each; not flea market prices by any means, but there are not many flea markets around here.
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webestang64
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Those are so nice! The Lipton's Tea is very cool! I drink that stuff every morning.
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Chris W
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Great buys. Thanks for showing.

There are reproduction fireman available for the Y-4 Shand Mason.
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Douglas
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Nice finds Blair, old Matchbox are always neat to run across.

Isn't that the way it always goes, as soon as you find a nice shop or antique store that has diecast, they either don't ever get anymore in, or they are closing down.
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b2young
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Chris W
Sep 14 2016, 04:01 PM
Great buys. Thanks for showing.

There are reproduction fireman available for the Y-4 Shand Mason.
I was wondering if someone was doing that. I've never gone looking for them, but I might check it out now. (I'm still debating buying repro parts for the No. 63 Foamite as I have several versions missing some or all of the attachments, and a couple missing a complete foamite foam cannon.....parts including repro metal foam cannons are out there on ebay.)

I've also had some success making repro parts/pieces of my own using a sculpting clay called "Sculpey" which you can use to make a mold, bake it in the oven, then press more sculpey into the new mold and bake the parts. They're more brittle than plastic, but as long as you're not messing with them all the time they hold up pretty well.
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b2young
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Douglas
Sep 14 2016, 04:32 PM
Nice finds Blair, old Matchbox are always neat to run across.

Isn't that the way it always goes, as soon as you find a nice shop or antique store that has diecast, they either don't ever get anymore in, or they are closing down.
Yeah, you got that right!
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pjedsel
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I am afraid you have truly been bitten by that collector bug Blair that causes us to move beyond the areas we say we are going to focus on. :lol:

There used to be a neat old antique store in downtown Fargo that I would stop by on a regular basis when our daughter was in college at NDSU. I always found some nice regular wheels and Model of Yesterday pieces at very nice prices - they thought they had little value compared to the very overpriced Hot Wheels that filled the back corners of the store.
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