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Offline Rasputin

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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #50 on: August 18, 2011, 19:10:09 »
That is one amazing lot you pick up for your collection.  :o
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2011, 17:13:21 »
Quote from: Rasputin on August 18, 2011, 19:10:09
That is one amazing lot you pick up for your collection.  :o

Thanks. It's got lots of really cool sets in it. I just need the time to go through it.
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #52 on: August 24, 2011, 00:11:53 »
Okay, I haven't posted anything in a while (because I haven't been doing anything with it for a while).  Now I am done my papers I had a little bit of time today so I sorted out the pieces for and put together the two 7145's (Medieval House with Barn). 

They are made up of more parts than I was initially thinking and had to be put in a larger container than I thought I would use:



Since there are two I assembled them slightly differently.  I know I could put them together ala the olde 3556 but this is how I chose for now.









These are $60 through DS: and that includes not one accessory or figure.  It seems like a lot to me, to be honest.  I would hate to see what the prices would be for Steck at the local toy store with Playmobil's profit margins ...
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #53 on: August 24, 2011, 00:25:05 »
Okay, I've been compiling extra parts that I'm not sure what they go with.  I've still got this lot and I'm leaning more towards an extra Blacksmith's because of the pieces but there is not an extra set of blacksmith signs, nor does it have all the right pieces for that (ie gable end) but it does have a chimney and flat dormer window and the olde medieval open wall section plus a solid half timber wall section. 

Well, I am taking pieces in and out of this extra lot as I arrange sets and I have not sorted everything yet into similar types of stuff so I guess whatever is left over at the end of it all ...   :lol: ???

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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #54 on: August 24, 2011, 19:43:42 »
Looks like most of a 3443 - Barn to me.
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #55 on: August 24, 2011, 19:53:14 »
Quote from: Tiermann on August 24, 2011, 19:43:42
Looks like most of a 3443 - Barn to me.

That's what I was thinking at first. However, there is a spare chimney and a stone wall piece glued with it.

It doesn't match any of the olde houses. 

Perhaps it was a custom combination? 
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #56 on: September 01, 2011, 03:26:13 »
Today I took some time to go through some of the stuff and try to sort out some of the figures.

I only took a couple pictures as I was more interested in sorting.

Here are the Templar (4534) and Teutonic (4625) specials:





Here is 4547 'Blue Prince'.  Note how the cape edging is painted.  It looks pretty good.



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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #57 on: September 01, 2011, 07:12:15 »
that painted edge makes it look so good!!
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #58 on: September 01, 2011, 07:42:36 »
so this used to belong to a collector who......passed on?  Even if still alive, seeing the glue marks where they had glued their clickies in place.....literally, like footprints, traces, of the previous owner who is no longer.

Kinda  makes me sad.

but at the same time happy, because their collection lives on, and is handled with care by a new owner who can appreciate it.
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Re: The Memorial Collection
« Reply #59 on: September 01, 2011, 22:44:25 »
Quote from: BlackPearl2006 on September 01, 2011, 07:42:36
so this used to belong to a collector who......passed on?  Even if still alive, seeing the glue marks where they had glued their clickies in place.....literally, like footprints, traces, of the previous owner who is no longer.

Kinda  makes me sad.

but at the same time happy, because their collection lives on, and is handled with care by a new owner who can appreciate it.

She has died. She bequeathed the Playmobil to a guy who had worked for her. He has three girls, apparently. They did not have room to set it all up so they decided to sell.

Yes, it makes me sad too. Especially when I see how the kids mixed it all up. But. I guess all kids do that and that is play and that is how kids have fun, so we should be happy for that. 

It's got a good home and I'm trying to sort it all. I don't have room to display it all either. But who among us does?

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