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MMP Mithril in Middle-Earth The Marketplace of Tharbad some juicy ebay-auctions

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  • #18116
    Thingol
    Participant
      Turambar wrote:
      The Man seems to have plenty of miniatures . . .

      …. ;) or molds…

      #18124
      Gildor
      MMP Elder

        or in this case, a huge attic

        #18125
        Thingol
        Participant
          Gildor Inglorion wrote:
          or in this case, a huge attic

          😆 I would like to have attic like Master Chris ! :)

          #18128
          Milo
          Participant

            I guess CT has both huge attic and some moulds. ;)

            #18135
            hsf62
            Participant

              Why can’t people just speak the truth? Our Goverments have trained us well! :(

              #18139
              Thingol
              Participant
                hsf62 wrote:
                Why can’t people just speak the truth? Our Goverments have trained us well! :(

                Agree…. 100%

                #18141
                twrich
                Participant

                  I can shed some light on this topic . . . the attic of Mr. Tubb. In fact a few months ago, after a particullarly strong storm, Chris had a leak spring in his roof at his house. He had some water damage and had to clear out his attic, and other areas damaged by the water. In this process he found several lost treasures, both Mithril and otherwise. So then . . . it is not like a government that intends to mislead, but rather like a “Barliman” who has good intentions, but can’t always remember things!!! ;-)

                  #18142
                  Barliman
                  Participant

                    Hey, who’s taking my name in vain? I deny everything. It wasn’t me. I wasn’t even there, and even if I was I didn’t see a thing. Honest. Not me, Guv. (Rangers in dark corners are not to be trusted any more than politicians under bright lights, so don’t believe a thing they tell you, unless it’s accompanied by a lot of money or a very sharp knife.)

                    #18146
                    jdbrown55
                    Participant

                      Well, to me it seems that he is always selling the same references. So, the question is, does he have any other ones besides these particular ones?:/

                      #18147
                      cameosis
                      Participant
                        hsf62 wrote:
                        Why can’t people just speak the truth?

                        truth hurts. :)

                        #18150
                        Milo
                        Participant
                          #18151
                          Gildor
                          MMP Elder

                            I think he is selling always same reference because of his involvment in mithril life years ago was not the same as it is today, he used to work in Macroom too but from what I understood he then moved to work and live in London and sold his parts in the mithril entreprise to Lars thus becoming a “simple” sculpter and no more co-owner… When he was co-owner he could cast and make many prototypes or test castings while he was working himself at the factory… but this has been over since 1999 I think and maybe even before that…

                            #18159
                            Thingol
                            Participant

                              This means that all of this figures are stocks since the time he worked in a factory. Then the M7 for instance in a few years will have a value of 1 $. Who knows how many more those figures are in Chris attic… Maybe he have 50 of M16…. This is no good news for us who wants to have valuable collection….

                              #18172
                              Milo
                              Participant
                                #18175
                                cameosis
                                Participant
                                  Thingol wrote:
                                  This means that all of this figures are stocks since the time he worked in a factory. Then the M7 for instance in a few years will have a value of 1 $. Who knows how many more those figures are in Chris attic… Maybe he have 50 of M16…. This is no good news for us who wants to have valuable collection….

                                  word.

                                  #18180
                                  Gildor
                                  MMP Elder

                                    i doubt there are so many, but there is one thing I DO NOT know which I prefer not to extrapolate…

                                    If mithril promotion and future presence in the market of figurines must me done by increasing the “general” pricing and decreasing the pharaonic prices of what are so far considered RARities it will allow for more collector people to come to the mithril market knowing that having a collection CAN be done somehow…

                                    Or maybe… Chris destroys the market of rarities on purpose, increasing availability thus reducing prices SO THAT people can focus and save money to buy future releases even at a higher price… He perfectly knows some people can’t save money to complete their collection and at the same time sustain the rythm of price evolution for the forthcoming figurines…

                                    I for one am aware he’d like collectors to have means to achieve their collections through means of big collection enthusiasm rather than big money… for many of you I assume, he has been generous to your collection when you showed him how deeply involved you were in mithril enthusiasm (not necessarily in action)

                                    he values collectors and rarities, but not rarity rated on the expensiveness of figurines… he never wants to see absurd high prices reached for figurines again… but auction are not meant to be there to win money at first, I am certain that if he had found let’s say 10 or 20 [mith]M7[/mith] at the same time, he would have offered a buy it now possibily, but with very low quantity, auction is the only fair solution alas auction are indexed on money :(

                                    #18181
                                    Gildor
                                    MMP Elder

                                      I’d like to point out that he likes to make gift and is sad and upset when he sees those gift used to make money even if he knows the value it can reach

                                      as a side effect, releasing MANY genuine rare figurines thus reducing their rarity will have a good effect about piracy and pirats will eventually consider it is no more viable to make and sell copies …

                                      #18182
                                      Thingol
                                      Participant

                                        I’m agree with you Gildor…. but recently we always can see same figures on his auctions…. and about his gifts. He send to me one 4 years ago, and I do not have intent to make any money on it… this is my precious… :)

                                        #18183
                                        Thingol
                                        Participant
                                          cameosis wrote:
                                          Thingol wrote:
                                          This means that all of this figures are stocks since the time he worked in a factory. Then the M7 for instance in a few years will have a value of 1 $. Who knows how many more those figures are in Chris attic… Maybe he have 50 of M16…. This is no good news for us who wants to have valuable collection….

                                          word.

                                          Which one, dear Master of languages !?!!? :)

                                          #18184
                                          Theobald
                                          Participant

                                            I just can confirm all of that, what Gildor said in the #1778 entry, definitely.

                                            As I learned to know Chris Tubb’s thoughts the same way as Gildor did.
                                            I even was furtuned by his generosity more than one time … just believe me.

                                            … not being sure if this is an “open” thread I would like to calm down here … if I can …
                                            though …

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