some juicy ebay-auctions

I am sure there are people among us who indeed are very very serious about piracy and would not resell any of their very precious gifts or collection pieces…

when it comes to me, I assured the Man my collection would be my heritage to my son… in the past he has been very generous with me and he still is… I would never want to loose this trust and friendship by selling any precious things he has given me…

But well, he has also been kind with other serious collectors in the past… who finally sold their “gifts”… we can’t know what will happen in someone’s life but a gift should remain a gift, not a merchandise…

This is something that does concern me for the mid to long-term future. Can I really expect my son to have the same passion and interest in collecting mithrils? He’s only 6! He will have his own passions to discover! Eventually, I will pass or will no longer be able to enjoy such a collection as this. How does it get dispersed?

I have a good many copies for gaming purposes that, if painted, could easily pass a genuine mithrils. I long ago decided i could never sell them outright, as some unscrupulous individual could pass them on as genuine. I think on some way to “mark” them as copies. Cut off the bases? Alter them all in some way? Or, perhaps, just destroy them outright and remove them from circulation. I now think the latter is the best course of action, unless I can bequeath them to a collector who would share my view of the integrity of the work.

Yes, this is true. I’ve already given thought to giving my collection to others in 30 years or so, but who can say what the future will hold? Perhaps a Tolkien or Mithril “museum” will emerge that can house a great many collections.

Presto, I too have a 6 year old and an almost 3 year old. Perhaps they will value these things, one can not be certain. They will decide for themselves eventually and my guess is that they will share your interests. And I also share the other issue you mention. Anyway, to me it seems useless to worry about the fate of a recast 20 or 30 years from now. Don’t destroy anything. Whether people approve or not these, too, are now part of Mithril history and might yet find a place in that future museum! I, too was thinking of taking mine with me, Barli, though I would need a Viking longship to carry them and the additional scrumpy required.

Mithril faerylands was the first step of a Mithril Museum project I have had for more than 6 years…. the Man is aware of that and that’s why he helps me with my collection at times…. My figurines are not for me alone… I plan to make , first a virtual museum, then when time and money allows, a real one… since the old Spanish one (juesgos sin fronteras) seems to have disappeared and it seems the PA factory/museum is far from complete…

so yes… I have had this museum project in my mind for years… and this site is the first step towards it…

I checked “my Ebay”.
I won CT’s auction on M60. :cool::cool::cool:
Finally I get this very nice hobbit adventurer.

Great Milo….. I’ve won 2 figures too, but I’m not sure who was on the other side: I hope non of you guys… figures were MW336 orcs…

Yesterday was the Independence Day Holiday in the USA so many bidders were probably not near there computors during the auction. When I saw that prices were low, I bid on 5 or 6 that I had not intended to bid on originally.

I do not mind at all. You wanted it more, you bid higher, that is the way it goes. i already have one standard bearer and two with horns, I was going to use the standard beared in a conversion, I will get plenty of chances in the future.