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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: GrahamB on June 18, 2016, 09:52:06
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3921 - Nativity (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?set=3921)
This was recently added to PlaymoDB I believe. It's a sort of combination of Nativity and Pirates Prison Tower. It was included in Collectobil (which has not been updated for several years), but I cannot find any other reference to it.
3921 was also used for a 1986 set "Fireman and Mounted Police Officer" (p551 of Collector 3rd edition, not in PlaymoDB).
I find it interesting how often sets crop up which are not mentioned even in authoritative sources like Collector. Some of them are no doubt editions limited to export markets or particular partners, but Collectobil makes no mention of such limitations.
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I always thought that the pictures of that one were from a custom and not an actual set. Though I do like it
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Hi GrahamB & leefert!
I believe that you are correct, leefert, in saying this was a custom set: Collectobil's SystemX Construction of the Month: Merry Christmas (http://www.collectobil.com/collectofun/systemx/2003january.html) from December 2002. It is a mystery, though, where that box cover photo comes from - I couldn't find it anywhere on the actual Collectobil site although it appears on Playmodb as a link to Collectobil. It seems that Bart and his son made this custom nativity display, so maybe Bart created a fake set page just for fun. :)
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Yeah the box cover looks fake, see how the sheep overlap the blue border. Never happens on real sets.
I notice they seem to perpetuate the "Islamic crescent" error!
Great set, I love to see customs like this.
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:lol:
That clears that one up, then! It's a fake and so is the Collectobil page. Never mind.
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Deleted. Not fair! Thanks for detective work, Graham et al.