Britains
Actually my father had a very extensive collection, I used to list his stuff on auctions, and also take in inventory and sort it, but he had all the books and catalogs.
He had all likds of Talor and Barret stuff, trains, Britains and many other old toys.
His favorite things were his Britains and his trains. He had a whole walk-in closet full of planes, zeppelins, big artillery pieces, and boxed sets, used to buy lots for 5-6000 from overseas auctions often, sort them out, keep what he liked and sell the rest.
He did do some re-painting and repairing as a hobby, I dont know for sure if he did any of these, but it is possible, although I do know he used to hunt down original paint colors, and parts, so I just dont know.
Unfortunately when he passed, everything that he owned, his sports cards trains, coins, and toys were no where to be found, I beleive they are all at his (new) wife's kid's house (that my dad bought), which was down the street. I was to recieve his collections, but there was not will, and his wife shut out all of us from much of anything.
She told me that he gave all his coins to her son to sell at the local coin shop, that is how I know she was lying...Rule number one for my dad was never sell anything to a coin shop. Hell he took all my baseball cards away when I was a kid cause I sold a couple Mickey Mantles and Hank Aaron cards and got ripped off, all for arcade money...His coin collection was extensive as well, and the pocketwatches...
all of it was supposedly gone,,,dissappeared in a couple years of him movign to florida, highly doubtful, but that is how it goes..
His wife took offense to me asking about it, got defensive, told me I could look in his office if I wanted too...she came out of somewhere and gave me a dozen baseball cards and a few watch movements, with a little digging I found these pieces and a handful of other stuff, and a couple hundred other BB cards...
I think his good stuff was not there, this stuff was just in a paperbag in a pile of stuff under his desk.. it is very probable that this stuff was just oddball stuff he had that he did not care a whole lot about.
I am not a serious collector, I could not even afford to bring home his catalogs on the place with me LOL.. My father was a serious collector though..
He went by the name Britains on ebay, and had thousands of transactions over the last 15 years or so.. hell maybe some of you guys dealt with him in the past..
