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johnnybach said:
Ah - yes - that's much more like it Brad. Clearly, some folks get confused about where the decimal point should go. If those particular offerings were on sale in the UK - I might be very tempted to put in an offer for them.

Given my dismal history on bidding for offerings from the USA, however, I don't think I will bother on this ocassion. Besides, if I were to do so, rather like Martin's wife, I fear - my own "La Commandate" would be asking where I had managed to hide that sorta money.............

"Woodman - spare that tree!!!" grinjohnnybach
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I've been checking, when I go to eBay, to see if the lady who had the first auction has relisted the item yet. Still fighting the urge to email her and offer unsolicited advice ;)

I agree with you about bidding on this second auction. Here's an example to illustrate about homecasts--if I didn't have the molds for these already, then I would consider bidding, just to have examples of the castings in my collection. For these Imperial German musicians, though, I have molds, albeit third-generation copies of the originals. Mine were made in the Forties, I think, and are still sold by an outfit in Washington state, Castings, Inc. They don't make such nice castings as the original bronze Schneider molds, though, or the reproduction molds in zinc by Hoehmann of Cassel.

It was these German homecasts that got me into toy soldiers in the first place. They have the charm of toys about them.

Prost!
Brad
 
A followup on the seller's auctions--she also has this group of flats up right now:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Han...414?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item589084ffe6

Now, this one is more reasonably priced that her homecast auction was. $55 for 14 German flats is in line with what many other sets of flats are going for on eBay these days. And these are nicely cast. I don't know if they're by Ochel or someone else, offhand, but they're good.

I can't quite tell if these represent American dragoons from the Revolutionary War, or French dragoons, or even Bavarians, from the Napoleonic Wars. I have to take a closer look at the crests on the helmets.

They aren't homemade, though, so she seems still to be learning about toy soldiers and model figures.

Prost!
Brad
 
Why not offer your services as a Toy Soldier Consultant Brad? Will stop her from mis-describing certain figures as "vintage" (whtever that means?) - and maybe help her sell more? Go on - you're itching to tell her!

I think you're right about the unpainted flats - priced much better. I think those - or some very like it are still available from Berlin Zinnfiguren by mail order. Better for me to get hold of - here in Europe. Johnnybach
 
Hehe, no, John, I'll pass ;)

Yes, you're right, they could be by Scholtz, I'll have to look. I order from Berliner Zinnfiguren on a semi-regular basis, and I'll have to look through my past catalogs and see.

Good place to get the more obscure or hard-to-find German round figures (like Peipp, MiniWelt, etc)

Prost!
Brad
 
Oh well! - good opportunity there..........................

Agreed with comments about Berlinner - only wish my eyes were still good enough for 30mm Flats!

Some lovely stuff there - for painters. jb^&grin
 
New to the forum. Long time collector of flats. (Bought my first set in the late 60s, when Peter Blum of "The Soldier Shop" carried flats for a few years at the store on Madison Avenue.)

The flats pictured are Philadelphia Dragoons. They were originally edited by Mark Loy of Munich and that accounts for the "L" you can clearly see on the base. In the last picture you can see the initials "L Frk" on the left corner of the base. This indicates that they were engraved by Ludwig Frank. The molds for the Loy flats, and these are some of the most beautiful flats depicting North American scenes, were acquired by Sixtus Maier's company SIMA. The flats are still sold by Lilo Maier today but it is difficult to buy them directly from her because she doesn't have email or a web presence. Berliner Zinnfiguren carries some SIMA flats and the sku prefix is 209. If you type 209/ into the BZ search box you will get a listing of the SIMA flats. Most, if not all, of the flats with North American themes were edited by Loy, designed by Ludwig Madlener, and engraved by Ludwig Frank.

Probably too much information, but I hope it helps.
 
Welcome to the forum, tinman! Thanks for ID'ing that sellers latest auction. I think your info supports my point, that she was asking way too much money for her auctions.

I buy from Scholz, too, though I buy fully-round 54mm figures from him. Excellent service and excellent selection.

Prost!
Brad
 
There's a lot of stuff severely overpriced in my opinion but often due to shipping. Earlier this week saw nice ACW Britains for really good prices. Turned out the guy uses a shipping service that would cost $45 to Europe, making it like $60 for 1 figure. He advertised shipping would be extremely expensive. Wondering why he'd use such a service. Shipping doesn't have to be real expensive, even not to europe.
 
Kaap said:
There's a lot of stuff severely overpriced in my opinion but often due to shipping. Earlier this week saw nice ACW Britains for really good prices. Turned out the guy uses a shipping service that would cost $45 to Europe, making it like $60 for 1 figure. He advertised shipping would be extremely expensive. Wondering why he'd use such a service. Shipping doesn't have to be real expensive, even not to europe.
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I think unfortunately, you can thank ebay for this. Due to the fraud restrictions, seller protection, you are seeing all international shipments going tracked or express and that greatly increases the cost in order to prove you sent the item and it was delivered.

Just my 2 cents,
Tom
 
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