Camel Corps Prices are Soaring (1 Viewer)

[glossman]

Hi Raymond

I prefer the sets with bases but you do have to pay a higher price, the one shown was indeed Dragon Crest.

Looks like an early set sold recently on EbayUSA for a very good price but it was a very rare 4 piece Screw gun set. I will have a very similar set for sale at the next London Show:wink2:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trophy-of-W...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Cheers

Martyn

Hi Martyn,

Thanks very much for your valued input.

I managed to get some boxed Trophy Camel Corps sets (Life Guards in the light blue-grey jackets) on eBay back in 2007/2008.

Despite frantic bidding, I don't recall having to fork out more than USD$150.00 per set.

When compared to the recent sale, I think I was lucky then.

All The Best, Raymond.

 

[GICOP]

Hi Martyn,

Thanks very much for your valued input.

I managed to get some boxed Trophy Camel Corps sets (Life Guards in the light blue-grey jackets) on eBay back in 2007/2008.

Despite frantic bidding, I don't recall having to fork out more than USD$150.00 per set.

When compared to the recent sale, I think I was lucky then.

All The Best, Raymond.

Hi Raymond

I checked a price list from 2003 and the mounted Camel Corps sets could be purchased for £39 each while the set that sold on Ebay would have cost a staggering £43.40 {eek3}

All the best

Martyn

 

[GICOP]

Methinks I'm about to get some bad news

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I guess the question is whether early Trophy came without the trademark on the underside of the base.

Many thanks for the pictures Jim, they do look like U2F

Len Taylor told me that Jock Coutts, who owned the Under Two Flags shop in London, did not want any of the Trophy figures he sold to have a TM mark therefore they were blank. The first Trophy figures had the TM scratched on the bases before the stamped TM was introduced in the 1980's.

Cheers

Martyn

 

[Der Alte Fritz]

Many thanks for the pictures Jim, they do look like U2F

Len Taylor told me that Jock Coutts, who owned the Under Two Flags shop in London, did not want any of the Trophy figures he sold to have a TM mark therefore they were blank. The first Trophy figures had the TM scratched on the bases before the stamped TM was introduced in the 1980's.

Cheers

Martyn

My very first Trophy/U2F were some Seaforth Highlanders that I purchased from Jock Coutts circa 1980-1982 in London. When I went back to the store a few years later, Coutts told me that he no longer carried the military figures, concentrating on civilian figures instead. He never identified Trophy as the source of his figures, but I figured it out when I first saw Trophy at the OTSN show in Chicago during the mid 1980s.

The TM markings on the figures that I bought from Coutts seem to be found on the round bases, whereas the oval bases have no markings ; see pictures below:







By the way Martyn, you are a valuable source of information on Trophy figures -- you should write a book about the company. Perhaps Henry Hyde would have an interest in publishing such a book.

Jim

 

[Der Alte Fritz]

By the way, if anyone has a spare Trophy metal flag (colours) that I can use to replace the one missing on my Seaforth Highlander officer ( which I lost during one of my house moves) I would be interested in purchasing the same.

Jim