On Saturday December 8th, I did my last toy show of the year, the toy show at Merchants Square. Merchants Square is a collectibles mall which it’s big thing is a bid board that is held once a month. They also have a room where various shows are held. One is a toy show which is held twice a year March and December. I got over to the show shortly after it started. Before you get to the show you have to passed by some of the collectible stores, which I noticed several were closed and empty. I paid my $5.00 and walked in. In the first row, I ran into my very good friend John. He had found a six inch Gold Marx Canadian soldier. I walked over to the table where John had found his figure and picked up a six inch Gold Marx Russian officer and six inch Gold Marx Japanese officer. both of the figures are different from the unpainted six inch Marx figures. The dealer had other six inch figures which I passed on. This dealer also had a Marx Heritage Civil War Playset no box for $75.00. I was told he had a Heritage Rev War playset out of the box, but I did not see it. I continued walking on, I passed on some other bags of plastic figures either the price was too high or I did not need the items in the bag. I saw Tom Stein buying some Marx dinosaurs. This dealer had a small bag of Gibbs Custer flats and Comic Book Civil War flats. The contents did not thrill me so I passed.
I continued to walk on and other than some Marx trees I found nothing else. I passed on an Aurora Wizard of OZ set that was painted. I did a second pass around the show and did not find anything so I headed home. The show was a nice surprise as I spent more than I had planned. So you can not knock a show for its size. It was a nice cap for good year for me at the shows and flea markets.
To this day I have trouble passing on anything that has to do with Gibbs Custer. At one time I had 10 Gibbs Custer sets, They are the hardest sets to match colors on, almost every blue figure from each set is a different shade of blue, then you have soft plastic and hard plastic figures. Mike Kutnick and I once spent about 4 hours trying to match up all my sets of which I kept two, one in hard and one in soft plastic. The really amazing thing about the sets is they had figures not counting the four teepees and the wagon and each was a unique pose, even the four teepees were all different. Kent Sprecher has a picture of all the different figures save one, I sent it to him but he never posted the picture. I think my attraction to the set was that my cousin had one and I was never able to get one as a kid and I spent 50 years pursuing a set.
Hi Ed: I can’t find where I put the figure you sent. I keep hoping it will appear.
I got more if you can’t find him, I think I remember which one he was. How could anyone passon Gibbs? I know I can’t.
I hope they accept your challenge Paul, lol, I wouldn’t count on it though. That would make a great show however.
Ed C
We will see, I did not figure on anyone from Toy Hunter being at the show. I will have a formal letter with challenge with me next year. I think Steve was shocked to hear I was blogging every show. I will have my latest report up soon. We will see what happens.