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Re: Old whistle train on ebay
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:35:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford writes:
Here: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=568802362

(No I won't be bidding!)

Why not: you would be outbid for quite sure anyway:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=564614214
or:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=565686274

Wow. Thanks for those links!

I know of a handful of further sealed sets 138 and 118. Those have been that
expensive in the beginning of the 70ies, that they survived the times unsold >in lots of shops as it seems....

Well, I guess whoever finds one of these has a tough decision... keep a very
rare set or reap a huge windfall.

I'm amazed (but I guess not totally surprised) that they are now
consistently cresting 1000 USD. I just consider myself lucky two ways...
that I got to see Abner's copy, and that I don't have the "must be TRAIN
complete" bug.

++Lar



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(...) That bug is easy to repair: I have done so with not too much money and time effort during the last two years. Now I'm after the last missing building instructions and after some variants of sets. The worst buck is the "I have to collect every (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.auction)

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