I hope everyone is doing well. It has been a while since my last post. We had been slowly moving since late July to the beginning of September. We took a break to setup at the Gettysburg show. After the show we have been unpacking and starting to settle in. The new 3d workshop is setup now and I am starting to make things again. I finally found some time to do a post, so without further delay here is the review of the Gettysburg show.
We will start the review on a sad note. In July, John Boyko Sr. passed away. John was a big collector of vintage toys. His son John Jr. was at the show selling off some of his collection. John Jr., also a collector of vintage toys. Here are a few pictures of the toys that he had at the show.
“John was an avid reader of many books on world history. He loved to go to the flea market always with the hope of scoring something. He loved to collect many things and attend toy and military shows John also had a love of corvettes, but nothing came close to his profound love for his wife Janet of 43 years and his 2 sons, John Francis Boyko, of Shelton Ct and Michael Paul Boyko of Johnson City.” John Boyko Obituary
There was a lot of Marx toys, bags of soldiers and playsets. Boxes of loose figures to dig from. There were some rare items to discover at bargain prices. Ten years ago, I would have probably purchased a lot of things. The collectors and other dealers spent a lot of time going though John Sr. toys.
Dr. Christian Keller was selling his antique metal toy soldiers. He always has some nice things.
Calvin had a bunch of vintage toy soldiers for sale. He was picking through John Boyko horde of stuff during the show. He found some nice Marx Robin Hood figures and a bunch of other things.
There were a few collectors selling across from us. They had some nice pieces available.
Steve Connell had some nice metal toy soldiers for sale. He also had some Marx & Barzso toy soldiers in plastic bags too.
Jack Eagan had a bunch of painted metal toy soldiers. Both loose and boxed. Most were from John Jenkins. He also had a lot of plastic toy soldiers too.
As usual, Rick Eber had a bunch of his pristine vintage toy soldiers. He must have a time machine to keep finding these mint toys. If you are looking for something in particular, I bet Rick has it.
Another dealer Mark also had a lot of nice vintage toys.
Eric Kohl had a lot of nice painted metal toy soldiers.
Here are some random pictures from the show. There was plenty of vintage plastic toy soldiers around. Brands of Marx, Airfix, MPC and Barzso that were mainly bagged and sold loose too. Plus, a lot of painted metal toy soldiers & playsets.
It was nice to see Paul Stadinger again. He usually will stop and visit us at the Gettysburg show. I think he found some good things.
Dave Pittman had a lot of plastic toy soldiers. He had a horde of Airfix WWII toy soldiers for 50 cents apiece, what a bargain. There were some Matchbox toy soldiers too at the same price.
Rick Lipp had some nice Marx toy soldiers for sale too.
There was a dealer from Canada called Timeless Troopers that some nice painted metal toy soldiers.
Here are some more pictures of vintage plastic toy soldiers from a few different vendors.
William & Mary Antiques had a bunch of vintage toys to pick through. Mainly plastic toy soldiers.
There was a vendor selling a bunch of Warhammer knights and some painted metal toy soldiers.
And lastly, we get to our table. I had a sale on some of the old stock of British figures that will be replaced sometime next year with the new models. The crowd was smaller than the first show this year, but we did better this time around. We sold almost all of the Native American sets that we had. It was a fun show.
That is it for the review of the show. We will now take a look at a few things that I picked up. I have not purchased too many toys since I got involved with the 3d printing. But once in a while I find something that I need, especially if it is at a good price. John Boyko had a lot of things at bargain prices. Here is a box of vintage trees that I paid $20 for.
There was 11 Marx Oak Trees. Some were a hard plastic, and others were a little softer.
There 3 of these types of Marx trees too.
And another group of 3 different Marx trees.
There were 4 vintage trees in this style.
And last group of 4 trees looked like this. It was a great deal for all these vintage trees. I plan on using them in a display that I want to build next year.
John had a bag of Marx Marching Army Cadets & Marines. Here are the Army Cadets, most were in very good condition. Some had the plumes broken off. I don’t have a big collection of Marx toy soldiers. But the last few years I have been picking up some as I discover them at the shows. I really like the marching poses that they did over the years in different scales.
Here are the Marines. All these toy soldiers were around 54mm.
Here are some Airfix & Matchbox toy soldiers that I picked up from Dave Pittman for $5.00. The Britains German Officer I had already, I like how similar they are to the Airfix German Officer.
Well, that is all the things I got at the show. I am now starting to make things in the new 3d printer workshop. We are still adding more tables & shelves. Plus, eventually an exhaust fan. I am starting to test the World War II Americans & Germans and take orders. You can send me a message you want to order something.
That is it for now. I will have an update with the 3d printing in my next post. Thank you for reading.