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<p>[QUOTE="Firemandk, post: 1413446, member: 7258"]I walked around following a couple of "English" Chinese men , a couple , in Hong Kong with my ex-wife's female friend that worked there . I was less than impressed in the "Antique" district , seeing mostly what I would call "fake" antiques. The couple got a few stores ahead of me , when they came out as I was going in , they had a full grocery size bag and half a plastic 5 gallon water bottle full of vintage Matchbox / Lesney cars , both regular and "King Size", all new in the boxes , and I almost cried ..... could have been mine... and I do have all my mid 60's Matchbox cars but these were incredible... I think someone must have passed away and someone just sold them in bulk to an "Antique shop" . I did ask them how much they paid and they told me about $250 American , but there had to easily be a couple of thousand dollars worth of Mint Matchbox cars there . ...........</p><p><br /></p><p>Later , I bought a neat Cast Brass Tiger with a broken tooth from an old chinese woman street vendor who was missing most of her teeth, she spoke hardly any english but she was joking her tiger was the same as her, missing teeth.... I was happy to buy it from her as I had been looking at a lot of the same "tiger" castings that were simply resin and I bought a carved wood stand for it and it sits on my collectables cabinet as a reminder of a good trip ( and what got away ) .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Firemandk, post: 1413446, member: 7258"]I walked around following a couple of "English" Chinese men , a couple , in Hong Kong with my ex-wife's female friend that worked there . I was less than impressed in the "Antique" district , seeing mostly what I would call "fake" antiques. The couple got a few stores ahead of me , when they came out as I was going in , they had a full grocery size bag and half a plastic 5 gallon water bottle full of vintage Matchbox / Lesney cars , both regular and "King Size", all new in the boxes , and I almost cried ..... could have been mine... and I do have all my mid 60's Matchbox cars but these were incredible... I think someone must have passed away and someone just sold them in bulk to an "Antique shop" . I did ask them how much they paid and they told me about $250 American , but there had to easily be a couple of thousand dollars worth of Mint Matchbox cars there . ........... Later , I bought a neat Cast Brass Tiger with a broken tooth from an old chinese woman street vendor who was missing most of her teeth, she spoke hardly any english but she was joking her tiger was the same as her, missing teeth.... I was happy to buy it from her as I had been looking at a lot of the same "tiger" castings that were simply resin and I bought a carved wood stand for it and it sits on my collectables cabinet as a reminder of a good trip ( and what got away ) .[/QUOTE]
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