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boerboy replied to the thread To Buy or Not to Buy… and Then Regret It Forever.I totally agree with the philosophy—but in the end, we all have an unfinished bucket list…because collecting is 10% owning and 90% longing. -
boerboy replied to the thread To Buy or Not to Buy… and Then Regret It Forever.Louis, I’m sure you’ll eventually find the ambulance—and when you do, you’ll look back on the time you spent hunting for it as a...
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boerboy replied to the thread What to do?.I had a similar situation recently. If tracking shows that your parcel was delivered to the eBay hub, your responsibility ends there. In...
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boerboy replied to the thread To Buy or Not to Buy… and Then Regret It Forever.I guess everyone’s a bit shy at the start of a new thread, so—as usual—I’ll go ahead and break the ice 🙂 After many years of...
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Special thanks goes to Dietz, whose recent comment helped spark this topic. Every collector has that one elusive set—or an entire Top...
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boerboy replied to the thread Trophy Sets That Never Were (But Should Have Been!).AI usually does pretty good work for me, but this time it missed one smokestack. Unfortunately, AI still isn’t perfect and sometimes...
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boerboy replied to the thread Trophy Sets That Never Were (But Should Have Been!).The photo on the right is an actual photo of the boat; the sketch on the left was generated by my AI (artificial intelligence) program
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boerboy replied to the thread Needed UK based collector.Tom, to avoid the headache of dealing with UK sellers who, for various reasons, won’t ship to the US, just use forward2me.com. They’ll...
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boerboy replied to the thread Trophy Sets That Never Were (But Should Have Been!).King George V and Tsar Nicholas II looked so alike they were often mistaken for twins, and there’s rich WWI historical context that...
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boerboy replied to the thread Trophy Sets That Never Were (But Should Have Been!).Thank you, Martyn—what an excellent idea. Len would be proud of this set. For someone who doesn't know the story, I took the liberty of...
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ANGLO ZULU WAR - DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL Cheers Martyn :) -
boerboy replied to the thread Show Your Trophy Collection – In Storage or On Display..Well, it explains it, but it's almost impossible to identify the regiments.
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boerboy replied to the thread Show Your Trophy Collection – In Storage or On Display..Not sure what happened, but your photos are a bit blurry today. The ones you took before looked great!
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boerboy replied to the thread Show Your Trophy Collection – In Storage or On Display..One more detail: both regiments—the Tirailleurs Sénégalais and the Algerian Tirailleurs (Turcos) in these Trophy sets—were equipped with...
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boerboy replied to the thread Show Your Trophy Collection – In Storage or On Display..This set is traditionally attributed to the Boxer Rebellion, but the uniform details strongly suggest it could also represent a World...
