FS - Engineering In Miniature - The 1st 20 years + Latest issies - £40

It's a bargain already without being troubled by posting it.

What part of the country are you in?

How complete? Mostly. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

Can you assure me that you are not a dealer, and are acting for yourself?

I advise you NOT to enter into any deal with "Airy R Bean". Most of all DO NOT let him have your contact details, especially if you have children.

Here we go, trying to get personal details?

You are talking to the man who threw a fettled casting worth £118 in the dustbin, partly because he didn't want to carry it to the Post Office to return it. HTH

Money tight again? Dole office caught up with you again? Need a drink?

Thanks for your interest - but they've now been disposed of locally.

I note, BTW, from the Tee Publishing Website that the first 20 years' are worth £300 - unfortunately I had/have a moral restriction on realising that value, because the first owner gave them to me conditional on my making a £30 donation to charity, and therefore it was impossible for me to pass them on other than for the same price, else I'd be diddling the original owner.

I would have thought that if you had sold them for £300 deducted your costs and passed the rest to charity, the original owner would have been highly delighted.

Steve

Perhaps he would and then again perhaps he would not, but I'm against charity, and so I gave him an open cheque and welcomed him to keep the money for himself. If he then chose to pay it to some charity - that was his affair. Whatever he did with the money was up to him, but it does not alter the fact that he made an attractive offer to me as a beginner, an offer which I would not do the dirty on.