Everything Counts When Toys are Collected and Auctioned

Saturday, April 20, 2024

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Cloudy with Sunny Periods

Everything Counts When Toys 

are Collected and Auctioned

If you read my blog regularly, you'll know that lately, I've been revisiting 

individual collectors and auction houses. 

One of the companies is

Milestone Auctions

They're a well-respected and renowned Auction Company, because anybody 

dealing with people have to be top-notch, very personable,

and of course knowledgeable.

What I also appreciate from them is their excellent descriptions,

and excellent photography. I sometimes try and

improve photos that are underexposed or overexposed or have some

dust or scratches on the base that the toys are resting on. But with today's

photos there was no need to do anything.

I was searching 2 different auctions that Milestone Auctions had on 2 different times.

April 9, 2022 

January 13, 2024

Both of these toys are very rare, and that is what was a key factor

when the final gavel hammer knock was hit. For myself, the two toys 

from their different auction appeared to me, to have very close 

qualities in terms of the toys themselves.

A more-noticeable difference was something that I never realized 

would be such an important factor in the final price of the 2 different 

auction items. That was the condition of the original boxes that the 2 toys came with.

Below are the auction photos from April 9, 2022

Description

"THE HOLY GRAIL OF POPEYE TOYS" 

Linemar battery operated Popeye and Olive Oyl Tank.

Length:  11" /  27.94 cm

Please click here to visit this Milestone Auction

  

Below are the auction photos from January 13, 2024

Please click here to visit the other Milestone Auction result

If you carefully look at the excellent photos, you

will see that this toy is in very good condition.

     

So that's it for today.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. It's not often

that I find 2 rare toys in very good condition, but the key

difference in the final winning price was due mostly to the box 

that came with the toy. 

Nevertheless, both final price results were still some of the higher prices

that I've seen while writing.

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

My name is (Mr.) stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com