Garage Sale Find (3)

[Martin Milner]

I like that "Hunter" in the first picture, or Trapper as he was known in Germany and really is. Who would go hunting with just a bowie knife (apart from Rambo)? Proper brown boots too, not pink, yellow or purple as they'd put on a similar figure today. This one is wearing an embroidered shirt, suggesting his own wore out and he's been doing some trading with the natives.

The other fur trapper is the old 3394 (mysteriously labelled as part of the Indians theme by Collectobil), which includes the steel jaws trap which this set lacks (had Playmobil started going soft?), and a pelt stretched out for curing. This trapper wears a beaver skin hat complete with dangling tail.  

The earliest Europeans to spend any appreciable time in my adopted State of Oregon were Fur Trappers, working alone or in small groups, catching beavers and other animals for their pelts and trading the skins on to a middleman such as the Hudson's Bay Company, which take them back East to be made into hats, coats and gloves. This was before a wagon route was found over the Cascade Mountains (to my East) opening up the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and starting the Western migration of settlers looking for a better life.

The fashion for beaverskin hats eventually died out, and combined with a decline in the numbers of key species de to over-harvesting (a lesson our own species has still not learned) forced the trappers to change trade. Many become buffalo hunters.

[playmo1989]

Hi

You see these can be great deals even when they look all messed up  we will get you to buy some of these "destroyed" lots yet  .

I bet there were some really rare sets in all those big unopened boxes in that big auction . The price was bad but like in this lot you never know until you open it up and sort it all out.

 And all the fun in sorting it all out is priceless 

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"

 
  i might try it some day  ussually i buy msib sets or if they are used in good condition i like spesiffic things now this lot for example i like some of the specials but the rest i don't need them ,
 oooooh ... you talk about this big action that went to 3000 $$  or something , perhaps it had treasures perhaps it was empty or casual things not something special 

[Rasputin]

The fashion for beaverskin hats eventually died out, and combined with a decline in the numbers of key species de to over-harvesting (a lesson our own species has still not learned) forced the trappers to change trade. Many become buffalo hunters.

Hi

I think it is "to change targets" not trade 


Rasputin "The Mad Monk"

[Wesley Myers]

I like that "Hunter" in the first picture, or Trapper as he was known in Germany and really is. Who would go hunting with just a bowie knife (apart from Rambo)? Proper brown boots too, not pink, yellow or purple as they'd put on a similar figure today. This one is wearing an embroidered shirt, suggesting his own wore out and he's been doing some trading with the natives.

The other fur trapper is the old 3394 (mysteriously labelled as part of the Indians theme by Collectobil), which includes the steel jaws trap which this set lacks (had Playmobil started going soft?), and a pelt stretched out for curing. This trapper wears a beaver skin hat complete with dangling tail.  

The earliest Europeans to spend any appreciable time in my adopted State of Oregon were Fur Trappers, working alone or in small groups, catching beavers and other animals for their pelts and trading the skins on to a middleman such as the Hudson's Bay Company, which take them back East to be made into hats, coats and gloves. This was before a wagon route was found over the Cascade Mountains (to my East) opening up the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and starting the Western migration of settlers looking for a better life.

The fashion for beaverskin hats eventually died out, and combined with a decline in the numbers of key species de to over-harvesting (a lesson our own species has still not learned) forced the trappers to change trade. Many become buffalo hunters.

I've got a few beefs over the bison hunting - not the hunting itself as there weree tonnes of bison here.  One account from where I live in the 1870's is of a north west mounted policemena trying to pursue a guy who darted in front of a herd of bison and the proto-mountie had to wait for 3 days for the herd to pass.  That was in the 1870's.

The US gov't wanted to force indians into treaties so they put huge bounties on bison so they would be wiped out - as that was the main food and supply source for indians.  We all know what happened.  There are hardly any left now.  It had nothing to do with fahion (ie bison caots) or anything, it was purely political to force the indians onto reservations and force them to sign the treaties.

Martin, where I live too was first exploredand settled by trappers and hunters of beaver and other pelts.  The first here, however, were French and then later the Hudson's Bay Co. moved in (Rupert's Land) after the French Indian Wars..