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Wow. I have not been to any estate or live auction type sales in a long time. A friend gave me a heads up on a local sale that had some vintage toy stuff in it and it was an experience.
Multi generational family on a multi house farm property that is now surrounded by small town. The picture that reeled me in was a half rolled up Buckaroo Banzai poster on an old bed with a bunch of other ephemera scattered around haphazardly. It still blows my mind to think that any kid from this town had BB hanging proudly on their wall. There was also a bunch of first 21 star wars figures and a crazy amount of vehicles and playsets that this kid had. I was early to the event, and the line was wrapped around the house, so needless to say I missed out on most of that. I would note that the estate sellers were asking pretty high dollar for items all across the board from furniture to jewelry. Plenty of things were picked up tho, so I suppose they are working with the going rate. I had no idea that many folks would pay $10 for a naked Jawa.
I was a little sad to miss out on some Micronauts and Black Hole robots, but I did pick up MEGO 1MBC Trag who probably fought valiantly in many backyard battles against the Aurora Trex model that was in pieces in a box. Trag came with a Shogun sword and axe, so that was a bonus.
My caveat was picking up the box of 'extra stuff' that looks to have most of a Kenner Death Star and all the bits and bobs that the sellers could not figure out. Haven't gone thru it yet, but I hope to find some gold there. Oh - and I got the Banzai poster. The poster was worth all the hustle and bustle and parking on a super skinny one lane drive and then figuring out how to turn around to leave.
Multi generational family on a multi house farm property that is now surrounded by small town. The picture that reeled me in was a half rolled up Buckaroo Banzai poster on an old bed with a bunch of other ephemera scattered around haphazardly. It still blows my mind to think that any kid from this town had BB hanging proudly on their wall. There was also a bunch of first 21 star wars figures and a crazy amount of vehicles and playsets that this kid had. I was early to the event, and the line was wrapped around the house, so needless to say I missed out on most of that. I would note that the estate sellers were asking pretty high dollar for items all across the board from furniture to jewelry. Plenty of things were picked up tho, so I suppose they are working with the going rate. I had no idea that many folks would pay $10 for a naked Jawa.
I was a little sad to miss out on some Micronauts and Black Hole robots, but I did pick up MEGO 1MBC Trag who probably fought valiantly in many backyard battles against the Aurora Trex model that was in pieces in a box. Trag came with a Shogun sword and axe, so that was a bonus.
My caveat was picking up the box of 'extra stuff' that looks to have most of a Kenner Death Star and all the bits and bobs that the sellers could not figure out. Haven't gone thru it yet, but I hope to find some gold there. Oh - and I got the Banzai poster. The poster was worth all the hustle and bustle and parking on a super skinny one lane drive and then figuring out how to turn around to leave.
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