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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: flatcat on September 12, 2010, 08:21:46
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Only one Playmo purchase while in Spain - But it was a biggun :P
I set it up in a scene whilst I was there:
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And lastly some odds - some real odds :eh?:
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Anyway, It was found at a local Saturday Fleamarket
We were walking down the last aisle of stalls, my hopes of finding any Playmo dashed, on the fith to last stall I saw two large boxes on the floor with Playmo in them.
There was no way I was going home without them.
The stallholder spoke no English.
He started off by drawing a large '35' in the dust on his Van. I imidetly played the trick of shaking my head, and we walked of to look at the last five stalls of the market.
It had worked. When we returned, he greeted us by now drawing a large '30' in the dust on the side of his van.
I had none of it, and picked up a couple of bits that were damaged (crack in ring seating etc) and continued by saying 'Is broko, no good'. A large '25' was now drawn in the dust by the stallholder on the side of his van.
Knowing this was a reasonably good price, and feeling cheeky, we got out a 20 and implied that was all we had, and a couple of minuites later the stallholder was having none of it, and starting to melt in the heat of the midday sun, we handed over the 25 Euros, and the Playmobil was bought.
I think this was part of a much bigger collection (5300 Mansion, Pirate ship, Train etc), and I think the stall holder has been selling the bits off seperately because of the huge boxes they were in, and the fact that during negotiation, he picked up a Klicky and said '1 Euro' :( (well if it were anybigger I wouldn't have got it home) ;D
Ok nothing is really complete, but after spending 2 hours of cleaning it, and chucking the non Playmo bits, I think it was a great lot and a good price at just over 20 quid.
Damo :)
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Great haul Damo!! The old animals and the steck farm are particularly interesting!!! Congratulations!!!
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That's amazing! I have completely missed out on carboot sale season this year so well done for managing it whilst in another country!!
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That's amazing! I have completely missed out on carboot sale season this year so well done for managing it whilst in another country!!
Our local carboot doesn't end till November, although I have stopped going becuase I kept coming back with too much junk (and not enough Playmo!) :lol:
Damo :)
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Looks like a great deal you got there. :)9
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The house by itself is almost worth it!
Great haul Damo!
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Great playmobil haul you got there Damo! Looks very good! :)
B-W :fireman:
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Ditto on loving the farmhouse. The animals are great. I have never seen the hippo before, loved it. :love:
Joe
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Ditto on loving the farmhouse. The animals are great. I have never seen the hippo before, loved it. :love:
Joe
I had also never seen the Hippo before, and he is my favourite item of the whole lot :love: :love: :love:
The farmhouse should be 3556 - Barn & Animals (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3556&pics=on) but mine is missing 2 units of roof and a 2 wall units.
I have the manual for this set somewhere so I can see whether it is worth keeping aside for completing :lens:
Damo :)
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Well done Damo, a great collection of Playmo. :clap:
I see the frame (or part of it) for the circus horse tent there. I saw an ebay lot that included tent cover a few days ago - I should have watched it! :(
Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
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Well done Damo, a great collection of Playmo. :clap:
I see the frame (or part of it) for the circus horse tent there. I saw an ebay lot that included tent cover a few days ago - I should have watched it! :(
Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
Thanks, Elaine :)
Annoyingly, I used to have the other half of it, but I sold it ages ago becuase I thought I'd never need it :doh:
Damo :)
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Excellent Damo - I am impressed at you buying Playmobil whilst on holidays. This is a sign of a true addict :)
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Excellent Damo - I am impressed at you buying Playmobil whilst on holidays. This is a sign of a true addict :)
I never go anywhere without looking for Playmobil :cloud9:
Damo :)
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Very good haul!!!!!!! Congratulations! You must have enjoyed that haggle!! (I know I would have).
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Hi
Thats a great addition to your collection. Oh we never get any good haggling around our parts. Its all auctions and some local sales. I miss a good haggle :lol: especially for Playmobil
So if you were on holiday did you have to cram it into a suit case ?
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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So if you were on holiday did you have to cram it into a suit case ?
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
Yes :lol:
I packed the Steck walls inbetween the layers of cloths in my case, and then I packed as many of the small accessories/Klickies into the caravan.
Because you are only allowed 1 piece of hand luggage on the plane, I turfed out my flight bits (Puzzle book, tissues, pencils etc) from my ruck sack into my Mum's hand luggage, and then crammed the whole remainder into my rucksack as hand luggage! (caravan, ring seating, animals etc)
Luckily Spanish security didn't want to look in my bag (they never do) otherwise we would have been there for a loooong time :lol:
And as a bonus, everything made it back with no breakages :woohoo:
Damo :)