SublevelStudios
Sith Lord
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2013
- Messages
- 2,598
Came across some old photos and a catalogue from when I used to be a dealer in the very early 90's.
Started collecting in 1989 when I was in art college, just buying loose figures from the weekly flea market in Newcastle-under-Lyme (where I first met the infamous Lee Bullock!). Then started going to carboots and local toy fairs. A mate and I quickly decided to do a couple as traders with some doubles of stuff we had and took it from there. We did it for 4 years. I enjoyed it a lot, the banter, the finds, and the buying and selling. Some great years. Then came girlfriends and cars, drinking and the start of my career. Sold the collection and bought a Pug GTI 1.6
These are some photos taken in 1994 at one of the Cheshunt fairs. These were quite a jaunt for us being in Stoke but well worth the trip. You'll notice in one of the shots a MOC Sise Fromm - this would have had an asking price of about £25. We had it for AGES and it never sold. Wasn't until we did a deal on all of Droids MOC's that we got shot of him. When you here people say you couldn't give the Droids figures away, they're telling the truth!
This is the last catalogue we produced. We did one very six months or so - no internet back then so these were great selling tools outside of doing the fairs. I've added a couple of pages that showed the 'was - now' sale prices.
And this is me circa 1993 - this was my dad's garage that I converted into a stock room/office. Laid it out like a little shop can't find any pics of it other than this one. You'll notice the Palitoy figure display to the left - minus the Vader head at the top. And yes, I'm smoking a fag in there!!! (And I had hair!).
Started collecting in 1989 when I was in art college, just buying loose figures from the weekly flea market in Newcastle-under-Lyme (where I first met the infamous Lee Bullock!). Then started going to carboots and local toy fairs. A mate and I quickly decided to do a couple as traders with some doubles of stuff we had and took it from there. We did it for 4 years. I enjoyed it a lot, the banter, the finds, and the buying and selling. Some great years. Then came girlfriends and cars, drinking and the start of my career. Sold the collection and bought a Pug GTI 1.6
These are some photos taken in 1994 at one of the Cheshunt fairs. These were quite a jaunt for us being in Stoke but well worth the trip. You'll notice in one of the shots a MOC Sise Fromm - this would have had an asking price of about £25. We had it for AGES and it never sold. Wasn't until we did a deal on all of Droids MOC's that we got shot of him. When you here people say you couldn't give the Droids figures away, they're telling the truth!
This is the last catalogue we produced. We did one very six months or so - no internet back then so these were great selling tools outside of doing the fairs. I've added a couple of pages that showed the 'was - now' sale prices.
And this is me circa 1993 - this was my dad's garage that I converted into a stock room/office. Laid it out like a little shop
can't find any pics of it other than this one. You'll notice the Palitoy figure display to the left - minus the Vader head at the top. And yes, I'm smoking a fag in there!!! (And I had hair!).
