Going Boxing (1 Viewer)

[MCKENNA77]

Hey everyone:

I was wondering if anyone has had a similar difficult experience trying to locate a toy soldier box. I was getting ready to sell a few items from my collection and of course you have to match the box up. Well I ended up rooting through my entire storage closet like a giant hog and I upset the wife(KGB) something terrible during the process. I must have invented about 20 new curse words during the whole ordeal. There just has to be a better way man.

Take Care

 

[theBaron]

It doesn't help to have all those PEZ dispensers cluttering up your toy soldier display space, either

Prost!
Brad

 

[Wraith]

Hey everyone:

... There just has to be a better way man....

Take Care

You know there is.
Don't sell any of them. Ever.

 

[thebritfarmer]

I'd have to agree with Simon.

I keep all my boxes within a larger box with the product codes all written on it.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Hey everyone:

I was wondering if anyone has had a similar difficult experience trying to locate a toy soldier box. I was getting ready to sell a few items from my collection and of course you have to match the box up. Well I ended up rooting through my entire storage closet like a giant hog and I upset the wife(KGB) something terrible during the process. I must have invented about 20 new curse words during the whole ordeal. There just has to be a better way man.

Take Care

McKenna,

I feel your pain. Not only do I have 1,000+ empty K&C boxes, I have a couple of dozen full ones mixed in (good luck putting your hands on them) as well as 2,000+ non-K&C soldiers in boxes, all stored behind the knee walls in the museum, under the banquettes, or in various draws under the display tables. I can't even find the crews to my Trophy boats - I know they are in there somewhere, but just haven't been able to make a dent in the boxes to find them!

 

[MCKENNA77]

McKenna,

I feel your pain. Not only do I have 1,000+ empty K&C boxes, I have a couple of dozen full ones mixed in (good luck putting your hands on them) as well as 2,000+ non-K&C soldiers in boxes, all stored behind the knee walls in the museum, under the banquettes, or in various draws under the display tables. I can't even find the crews to my Trophy boats - I know they are in there somewhere, but just haven't been able to make a dent in the boxes to find them!

Louis:

That is brutal dude. I do agree with Wraith that the best way to avoid the problem is never to sell your sets or move. I rarely sell sets and its usually due to space limitations(KGB). But the bottom line to the whole problem is why do we keep the boxes? I know we're all collectors here, but if you never sold any sets or moved from place to place what use is the box? Would you purchase a set of toy soldiers with out a box? What if someone(seriously toying with inventing a prodotype myself) came up with a toy soldier storage unit for figures and vehicles? Would collectors shed their boxes and purchase such a thing? It would seriously cut down on storage space requirements. Do you think that K&C or any toy soldier company would start to sell toy soldiers with out boxes? It would certainly be a more "green" thing to do, but I'm not sure what sort of shape their product would be in once it was shipped. Maybe a safe, hard plastic type, reusable toy soldier shipping container needs to be invented. You get your product safe and sound, send the container back and no box storage required. Sounds almost like toy soldier Net Flicks. I'm rambling again, I need to get back to work. I might spend some time working on a shipping prodotype though.

Take Care

 

[Gideon]

Lol - I was looking at those open shelving units from ikea recently and got scared. You are a brave man for sing those...

 

[Njja]

This is a serious problem, even though many King & Country buyers don't seem to be that concerned with original boxes. In Lionel Trains, we have a situation where rare boxes, and rare set boxes are often worth as much as the trains themselves.

With this in mind I always keep every box, and as Louis and others have pointed out this can be quite a problem. I have several warehouse shelf units filled with boxes, all in numerical order. It is usually quite simple to go right to the box.........yeah right. I recently sold the LAH Drum Horse, I knew I had the box. I searched everywhere, the racks, closets, shop, finally I decided to go watch a movie and there in a showcase sat the box. Since Andy made it so colorful Red & Black with Gold Letters I decided it looked to nice to just sit on a rack!

So much for careful planning!

Njja

 

[wadepat]

This is a serious problem, even though many King & Country buyers don't seem to be that concerned with original boxes. In Lionel Trains, we have a situation where rare boxes, and rare set boxes are often worth as much as the trains themselves.

With this in mind I always keep every box, and as Louis and others have pointed out this can be quite a problem. I have several warehouse shelf units filled with boxes, all in numerical order. It is usually quite simple to go right to the box.........yeah right. I recently sold the LAH Drum Horse, I knew I had the box. I searched everywhere, the racks, closets, shop, finally I decided to go watch a movie and there in a showcase sat the box. Since Andy made it so colorful Red & Black with Gold Letters I decided it looked to nice to just sit on a rack!

So much for careful planning!

Njja

Hi John,

Ha! Now, that is a great story! So often, when I am hunting for some toy soldier related thing that I cannot find, I simply abandon the search, clear my mind, and do something else. Usually the next day I stumble upon that for which I was searching and, quite often, the item that was lost was in plain sight all the time. Fortunately, you spotted the box and all was well!

Thanks for sharing your story. I am sure most of us can easily relate to it.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat