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Hi Martyn,
Many thanks for posting Brad's pictures of the Trophy sets. It looks like a good Chicago show for Trophy this year. With the HMS Lion and Eagle on offer, only the Leopard is not there of the big three Trophy boats. Thanks for the Trophy pictures, Brad.
Cheers, Raymond.
Many thanks for posting Brad's pictures of the Trophy sets. It looks like a good Chicago show for Trophy this year. With the HMS Lion and Eagle on offer, only the Leopard is not there of the big three Trophy boats. Thanks for the Trophy pictures, Brad.
Cheers, Raymond.
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Glad to help out. Those boats are fantastic. Unless someone has a car, I don't think those boats will sell at this show. I would be terrified to ship them and Alan will not ship them.
Apparently, to continue the naval analogy, I missed the boat on sets that Old Toy Soldier Home had. Woody had about 50 odd sets and by the time I got there, he was down to 20 odd. He mostly had Zulu and Sudan. Will try to get some pics later.
Brad
Apparently, to continue the naval analogy, I missed the boat on sets that Old Toy Soldier Home had. Woody had about 50 odd sets and by the time I got there, he was down to 20 odd. He mostly had Zulu and Sudan. Will try to get some pics later.
Brad
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Very nice looking boats.
However can somebody help me out. The Eagle has 5 more figures and is $400 cheaper. Trying to work out why the other one is more expensive with less figures.
Anybody have an idea why that is the case ?
However can somebody help me out. The Eagle has 5 more figures and is $400 cheaper. Trying to work out why the other one is more expensive with less figures.
Anybody have an idea why that is the case ?
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Three of those boats shipped all the way from London to South Africa a few years ago so they can travel well if securely packed.
They are great sets all round.
Thanks for posting those photos
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Not sure why the difference in price between the LION and EAGLE, I think around 25-30 were made of each...there were more made of the LEOPARD
From the pictures it looks like the Eagle has the "ADD-ON" set# ACW25V - UNION INFANTRY included with it hence the extra figures, if I had the room I'd have both :wink2:
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Martyn
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The difference in price probably stems from the fact that only 18 of the "Lion: were produced according to Len. "Leopard"-28; "Eagle"-35; and "Victoria"-66. Tommy
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That's the beauty of being on the Forum - you get a chance to see some wonderful things - like those two boats pictured. Just great to see something that I otherwise never would have seen (or own!). Thanks SO much for posting. johnnybach
i missed the big splash in craig mclains room of 54 trophy boxes but i did get the following trophy from fred-- wwi anzacs in pith helmut plus the add on set, gordon highlanders standing firing and a cuirassier from the napoleonic line . from big george i got a few trophy mexican war figures including a mounted mexican lancer, travis crocket and a few mexicans and fron allen gwin i got some zulus and some somerset infantry for the nortwest frontier. basically almost 3/4 of the trophy at the show were basically from the sudan line. this was thhe most trophy scene at the chicago show in years. i think brad got the crimean morter and dietz picked up some nice zulu sets. we will see if any pop up at the show sunday
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There was really more Trophy than we all could absorb. Fred Genard of Toy Soldiers France had some, Alan Gwin (who, along with his wife, has to be one of the nicest guys around) had a lot as did Old Toy Soldier Home. Alan sold some but still had a lot left at the end of the Show, Fred sold some and reduced his prices on Sunday and Old Toy Soldier bought 54 sets to the Show and sold them all. Unfortunately, I missed the boat on that one as I was walking around and then buying a few sets from Fred.
There was a lot more than last year and perhaps we are now seeing a lot of Trophy now coming into the secondary market. Until last year, you rarely saw any Trophy at Chicago. Every year Greg (Hawkeye) would lament how there was no Trophy at Chicago. Anyone who wanted Trophy wasn't singing the blues this year, I assure you.
Brad
There was a lot more than last year and perhaps we are now seeing a lot of Trophy now coming into the secondary market. Until last year, you rarely saw any Trophy at Chicago. Every year Greg (Hawkeye) would lament how there was no Trophy at Chicago. Anyone who wanted Trophy wasn't singing the blues this year, I assure you.
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We bought the HMS Lion from MKL Models back in 2000. It was shipped safely from London to Chicagoland. It was the second Trophy that we had ever purchased, a gift from son to father. We had very little idea of what it would look like in the flesh. We were so enamoured with it that for weeks we debated whether we should cast all of our 'collecting fortunes' at getting the Leopard & the Eagle too! We were also later offered the opportunity to have a semi-custom Mississippi Steamship through Maison Militaire made by Trophy of which there would be at least 5 if we & someone else ordered them. Alas, 'reason' prevailed.^&confuse