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They have got to be kidding? =A3550 for an 08 shunter?

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MBQ

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MBQ

Yeah, I know. And the buggers have only gone and sold it! Now, this is the situation, I want one of those and I am not going to pay £550 for it. So, can I have yours please. I'll give you £80 for it, and you can get yourself a nice new Hornby 08 instead of hanging on to an old toy which probably doesn't even have a sound card in it. Mind you, for £80, it's got to be in at least the condition that CB Toys advertised, or I shall cry and moan about not getting good value.

Cheers, Steve

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Steve W

A few years ago the father of a friend of mine - with absolutely no interest in model railways - died and left him a bungalow full of this stuff. All third-rail, all mint with original boxes. At the time I didn't know what to do with it so a local dealer agreed ot "take it off his his hands" for a couple of hundred quid. It makes me weep just thinking about it now.

(kim)

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kim

The old hindsight issue. If we could all see into the future we'd all be rich thanks to stock-market and lottery wins.

I sold my extensive collection of Dublo 3-rail back in 1968 for £15 - mind you that was not far short of two week's wages at the time.

John.

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John Turner

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MartinS

My dear departed mother sold (or gave away) my not-so-extensive but carefully-maintained Dublo collection in the late sixties after I came to Canada. Luckily, she did not dispose of the Dublo Dinky/Matchbox collection, which I have since augmented at swapmeets, along with newer OOC and EFE buses & trucks.

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MartinS

On the other hand, I have been "left" by an uncle a suitcase of Fleischmann, Roco, Arnold, Brawa, (and others) N gauge rolling stock. There would be 30 loco, 5 rail car sets, over 100 coaches and more wagons. My aunt asked me if I would like them before she sent them off to the charity shop! Good save, eh?

Scoot

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scoot

My Godmother was one of those ladies for whom a House was not for living in but for keeping in an immaculate state . Consequently on visits there her son and myself were only rarely allowed to play with an early 20th century spirit fired live steamer and stock. And only ever in push along mode. It was bigger than O Gauge ,probably Gauge 1 and had been a present to her husband when he was young. Even he did not dare to steam it. Her Son was really more interested in Aircraft and when he left the home to get married expressed no desire to take it with him. I was still a few years away from that and was some what niffed when she told us that the whole set had been put out for the dustman without offering it to me. She mentioned that the dustman had actually knocked on the door to see if she had made a mistake and if she really intended disposal would she mind if he could have it as he collected such things. So at least it did not go to landfill, I did get a glow of satisfaction when upon passing an antique shop whom at the time had a section specialising in such things a similar loco with no stock or track being sold at fairly substantial some and it dawned on her what she had thrown away.

G.Harman

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g.harman

What is sad about old ladies such as this, is just how many there are, and just how few of them know the value of anything that has been collected by their departed husbands. I wonder just how many boxes of old transport photos/negatives or (even cine film) have been consigned to the bin by these old biddies?

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crazy_horse_12002

It's not just the old biddies, and it's not a problem limited to model railways, transport, etc. Heirs and assigns generally have a tendency to throw out old photos, many of which may be of interest to museums and historians, not so much because of the people depicted in them, but because of a building in the background, the clothes worn by the subjects, the car waiting to transport them home, a shopfront or an advert on a wall, and so on. Just as the 1027th shot of a GWR Hall (say) attracts your attention because of wagon or building in the background...

When in doubt, give the old stuff to a local museum, the worst that will happen is that they will consign it to the dumpster instead of you. :-)

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Wolf Kirchmeir

I declined the chance to buy 3 ex-LMS Jubilee nameplates for =A335, during the mid 60's!

Still regularly wake in the middle of the night....screaming :)

Cheers Robt P.

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60106

"60106" wrote

D49 (Hunt) class namesplates were offered for sale at Hull's Springhead shed around 1960 for GBP3.00 (three pounds) each including the cast fox, but apparantly the trade dropped off when they upped them to GBP3.50.

John.

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John Turner

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60106 writes

Have you tried asking your doctor for some sleeping tablets?

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Jane Sullivan

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