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Neil

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AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« on: March 01, 2014, 05:23:38 pm »
Just found these two cracking models of Isle of Mann Steamers, Lady of Mann and Benn My Chree in a local auction house..won't say which one because I fancy a crack at them.......

I know,I know............ not my usual charitable self but they are real crackers and fancy them, although I think they are static models, but very nicely made.

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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2014, 05:28:37 pm »
They look nice Neil, Good luck.


If you did want them to be secret though you need to remove the auction label from the pictures, 2 minutes Googling and I found them, Don't worry, I'm not bidding. :-)


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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2014, 05:29:11 pm »
Wouldn't be Smythes would it?. {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2014, 05:30:38 pm »
no!, no! no!,

my conscience has gotten the better of me.....they are in the auction house Smythes, on Victoria Road West, Cleveleys, if anyone else is interested.

neil.

wouldn't make a very good under cover agent would I.......... {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2014, 05:59:53 pm »
was there last week ,Neil,but did you see what else they had ,and that was why I went .I see lots of model boats ,there are a few over here in b head auctions next week ,funny old game at times ,but its the winter clear/out and you want to see what they have in the auction house in west Kirby ,,very interesting for model boaters,there are a few going at this time ,as I say winter clearout .
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2014, 08:21:12 pm »
Quote from: Neil on March 01, 2014, 05:30:38 pm

wouldn't make a very good under cover agent would I..........

I dunno Nick, how are you with 'The Ladies?'
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2014, 09:05:45 pm »
Quote from: Martin (Admin) on March 01, 2014, 08:21:12 pm
I dunno Nick, how are you with 'The Ladies?'

in a word Martin...........LOUSY

TO OLD, TOO FAT AND TOO...........Well wat ever else comes to mind........just put it down to not being photogenic, lol...........but who's "Nick"

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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2014, 09:50:56 pm »

 sorry Neil .... is it your spy name?!?   %)
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2014, 10:01:06 pm »
LMAO
 
Really did spit my coffee out, funny as......brilliant......deserves a special mention at the annual award ceremony
 
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2014, 10:51:48 pm »
Always good for a Sunday morning laugh guys... {-) Martin, Chris, Nick & Neil.......  what a 3/4's of a an intelligent foursome they would make O0 ...

However......just digressing a little.....where do these Auction Houses find multiple examples of model vessels that clearly are not toys  :o
Could they be offered by those museums that Colin suggested no longer found them interesting to the public?

So if Nick   :embarrassed: ....is really Neil's non deplume [spy name]  8) ....could we not ask Nick to solve the riddle of the source of these models?........  Derek
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2014, 12:07:08 am »
Quote from: Martin (Admin) on March 01, 2014, 09:50:56 pm

 sorry Neil .... is it your spy name?!?   %)
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2014, 12:11:48 am »
Quote from: derekwarner_decoy on March 01, 2014, 10:51:48 pm
Always good for a Sunday morning laugh guys... {-) Martin, Chris, Nick & Neil.......  what a 3/4's of a an intelligent foursome they would make O0 ...

However......just digressing a little.....where do these Auction Houses find multiple examples of model vessels that clearly are not toys  :o
Could they be offered by those museum's that Colin suggested no longer found them interesting to the public?

So if Nick   :embarrassed: ....is really Neil's non deplume [spy name]  8) ....could we not ask Nick to solve the riddle of the source of these models?........  Derek

Hi Derek........this auction house specialises in house clearences when the deceased's rellies just put the whole lot up for auction.....so they will be the love and hard work of some sad ol geezer who's kids couldn't give a monkey's about their old man's prides and joy......and they get sold on.....these will probably go for around 200 quid each max......usually a real snip.
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2014, 01:02:31 am »
I think Nick/Neil is
oh oh wait, or
spond ,jame spond.
ok no need Ive got me coat,or  rather pyjamas Im off
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2014, 04:30:19 am »
Thats where I got the HMS Lagos at an auction house,it and about 20 other models were sitting in amongst household furniture,...there were 3 or 4 big lifeboats including an Arun 52, a Trent, and a St Charles they were full rc all singing and dancing...and 3 of them went for less than £400....i also picked up a canal barge..153cm long full rc with sound and smoker,and 4ch transmitter...i got it for £32 +.20% commision but the best buy was an Engel Gato complete with everything in it,and its been built to a very good standard..it came with an F14 transmitter,..and it cost less than you,d pay for a  Robbe type7 kit....There was an HMS Victory,it was 120cm long by 100cm high built to museum quality,also included was a through section model,showing below decks,it was in a perspex case as was the Victory....hammer price £100..there was also a model of a tall ship...90cm long in a glass case, in museum quality...hammer price £32...yes auction houses can be great places for models
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2014, 05:23:13 am »
It only takes 2 people to make a good auction, so if you happen to be the only one really interested in a particular item you can pick up a bargain. If, on the other hand Nick, Matahari, Neil was there, you could end up paying through the nose :o


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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2014, 10:45:15 am »
Hope the suggested lot price scares off many Neil (Nick, Nell or whomever), certainly a top ender in comparison to the rest of the lots.   :o
 
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2014, 11:56:38 am »
I shall be enquiring later today ( if open) or tomorrow when they are, as to what the expectation is, and what reserve. they know me down there.bought a few models and sold them on so they have no probs disclosing the reserve to me.
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2014, 12:07:19 pm »
Quote from: Neil on March 02, 2014, 11:56:38 am
they have no probs disclosing the reserve to me.

"Ve spies haff vays of making you tock! You vill tell us everysing or ve vill shoot vot is left off you ven Igor has had his little funny vays viz you"  <*< :o
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2014, 12:35:22 pm »
don't mind Igorina having her funny ways with me............but draw the line at IGOR %% %% %% %% %% %% %%
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2014, 01:02:43 pm »
went to the auction this lunch time just in time to see the models go under the hammer.......both went for £890.00 each excluding buyers premium.....one went to a gent with an Isle of Man badge on his fleece, and don't know who the other went too..........anyone from on here????? %% %% %% %% %%
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Re: AUCTION HOUSE FINDS
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2014, 01:55:27 pm »

  For sale. £3,000 each .... Low mileage, one careful owner!    %)



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« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2014, 04:20:32 pm »
what a surprise martin.....

didn't see your flamboyant shirt around the auction house ....where you in disguise as the old bearded man at the back of the room? {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2014, 04:26:42 pm »
He was wearing his Islanders Fleece.
He would have been charged more if the shirt
had been showing {-)

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« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2014, 06:12:35 pm »

I'm like Superman, just comb my hair differently, pair of glasses and no one recognizes me!
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« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2014, 08:40:30 pm »
£3,000 each....oops...I've just fallen off ma perch.... {-) {-) {-)
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