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<blockquote data-quote="Frunkstar" data-source="post: 548458" data-attributes="member: 314"><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">Other cool Bulk finds over the years</span></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170973[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170974[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]170976[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Box side info</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170977[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Box end info</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170982[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">The 3 Tri Logo miss cards I was lucky enough to pick up in the lot & boy did he make me haggle hard for that C-3p0, interesting thing is that although this is a well known combination for a miss carded Tri logo, it is the worlds only confirmed example to have the cargo net included, making it a little more special IMO</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170983[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Maybe something of little interest to most but I love this piece, it's just the end section of a MOC shipping case for the Wequay figure, the interesting bit being how casually it had been just torn from the box to seemingly keep a tally of what figures the trader still had available & what had been sold</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170984[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">The whole find in the last pic</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><span style="font-size: 18px">The Palitoy Emperor Mailer Shipper find</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">This was about 6 or so years back circa 2015, I had been searching for an example of a Palitoy issued Emperor mailer for well over 2 years with not as much as a sniff at one, they were impossible to find back then like many of the Palitoy mailer still are today, then one popped up on ebay out of the blue, life being life I missed the end of the auction & was about to cry TBH when I noticed it had gone unsold, so I messaged the seller & asked if he was going to relist the item, he did, but I then noticed it was a "bulk listing" IE 10 available, so after much back & forth asking questions I agreed to make a long drive & everything fell nicely into place.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">The backstory here being his farther was a toy trader in the early 90's & what he had was the remaining stock that had long since been as good as forgotten about in the farther loft, the son was doing some work in the loft & mentioned the stuff he saw up there to his farther, who in turn said to see if the son could sell it & make a few pounds for his help on the house.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Most of the stuff was pretty run of the mill ROTJ / Tri Logo era carded figures with some mini rigs & various bits & bobs, but he had a lot of Tri Logo miss carded figures (lots) he never let on just how many, but he had been selling them for weeks on ebay, just the 2 usual candidates (Weequay on Warrok card & Weequay on Barada Card), I managed to make a fair deal with some extras to try to help cover my huge investment on the entire shipping case of Emperor mailers, as it was the shipper I was most interested in.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">A 2nd find of these mailers turned up about 2 years late, no shipping case & I tried to replace the ones I had sold to fill the shipper (as it came 2 short when I bought it) it was only after buying up hundreds of pounds worth of them (maybe 30 to 40 examples) & then putting them in the shipper I discovered they were actually different in size (2mm wider to be exact), so the re-fill turned into a no go as they would not fit <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /> but that led to me inspecting them very carefully & noting they were not quite the same, one as said is 2mm wider, but the box outer white layer was also very different ( 1 being mat & the other glossy), this in mind it would indicate there were in fact different size shippers available for this mailer, likely 200 count like others, whereas mine is an odd 144 count shipper.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Another thing (nerd!) I found of interest is my 144 count had both Palitoy-a & Palitoy-n baggies all in the same shipper, so likely a box packed at a changeover time for the baggies within the mailers, most (about 90%) were Palitoy-a but the others were Palitoy-n baggies, there were also a few error baggies (1 with an unpainted hand & another with a cool font print error on the bag).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Right the 2nd find backstory - a guy had lots of overstock toys in his home, many of which (including the mailers) were tucked under the bed & had been for over 20 years, one day some cash was needed & one was opened to confirm what was in them, guy was a little shocked as he thought they were toy train parts, no idea how many were in this find, but there were a fair few.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Hence Palitoy Emperor mailers now being pretty common place, though still 100 times rarer than their Kenner counterparts, odly no shipping case for the Kenner issued Emperor mailers has ever surfaced, but I suspect they must be out there with the numbers seen.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">A couple of non baggie images have been included to show what I got in the find.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170985[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"><span style="font-size: 22px">[ATTACH=full]170987[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Box side info, note this is the more regular 200 count type shipper</span></span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]170988[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Box end info</p><p></p><p>Palitoy Nien Nunb Shipper</p><p></p><p>Backstory is again toy trader related, but this time it came from Jim Stephenson (god rest his soul), I bought this direct from Jim's son after a 18 month hard fought haggle / agreement along with a few other items including a Palitoy Fett Popy box, circa 2016, as the Emperor shipper got me really focused on baggie related shipping cases, hey who don't love 40 year old smelly cardboard boxes right?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]170990[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Above showing the state of play with my Palitoy mailers at one point circa 2016/17 - oh the good old days of actually having some trade bait.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]170991[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]170992[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My C-3p0 shipper find, got this after a tip off from a fellow collector & pounced, glad to be able to add another battered brown box to the shipper side focus, pic of a few of the 60+ 3p0 baggies that came with it, as I gather shippers for these were very common with dead stock toy traders in the early 90's, mines in fairly rough shape with water damage, but I love it just the way it is.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171054[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171055[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A recent find that as it goes popped up here on the forum, lots of great Palitoy issued mailers, note the Dengars are not the regular ESB era issued ones but rather the end of the toy line ROTJ era as would have been sent out for the mailer slip offer (slimmer box & different baggie - Palitoy-a), see there are still cool finds to be unearthed even now.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171056[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171059[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171060[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A fairly recent cash in the states of overstock baggies, note the At St Driver is a paint app's error baggie (which may I add I sadly missed out on grrr), Photos <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Courtesy of Johnpaul Ragusa </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)">also note those ERG's in that baggie type we still know pretty much nothing about</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">[ATTACH=full]171061[/ATTACH]</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171287[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Note the 3 dengars bundled together with a single postage mark & the lone ESB-d baggie example which confirmed these were also sometimes issued with an alternative baggie.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171289[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Close up of the triple packed one</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171290[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The 5 palitoy fett mailers from the find, sadly no sealed examples so we are still at the no sealed examples known stage, but this at least finally confirms 100% that the 1st issued ones palitoy sent out were with the ESB-a (1st issue) baggie type, 4 as you can see where still sealed in their baggies & the 5th was opened, 1 flyer was also included in the auction lot</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171291[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The Survival kit mailers from the lot, thought to be the earlier issued ones Palitoy sent out due to the inclusion of the Kenner logo baggie, later examples have been found with the Palitoy baggie type (no Kenner logo just made in Hong Kong), I can't remember exactly how many there were in total but a fair few with I think 2 lots having come in bundle form like the dengars as you can see by the tape that held them together one bundle comprised 7 as ou can see by the address label shown in the photo.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc">The Astons final auction find, this was rather the insane find of a man who had passed away & left everything stored in his garage to his elderly neighbours, thankfully they met a fate more flattering than a skip & the lot ended up being auctioned off at Aston's in their final sale, this included many great palitoy single mailers shown above, the collector seemed to have been a major hoarder as he had mailers sent out to him in bulk lots, many of the carded figures in the auction (unopened) were missing name plates obviously removed for the mail in offers</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171292[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>5 jawas - 2 in SW-d's & 3 in SW-f's</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171293[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>6 R2's all in SW-f's</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171294[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>2 Pin head han Solo's in SW-f's 1 Ben in SW-f & 1 Luke in SW-f</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171295[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>3 Vaders in SW-d's</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171296[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>3 Leia's in SW-f's & 2 C3P0's in SW-f's</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171297[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>4 Chewbacca's all in SW'f's</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171298[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>4 Stormtoopers in SW-d's & 1 DSD in SW-d</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171299[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One of the 5 Stormtroopers was an text error baggie (SW-d but no font), bag is an exact match in terms of material type with both heat seals corresponding to the others from the find, really makes you wonder how many un-texted have just been ripped open over the years assumed to be fakes due to no provenance like this find had.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171300[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>4 Tusken Raiders 3 in SW-f's & 1 in SW-d</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171301[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One of the Tusken's was a weapons error baggie (no gaffi stick)</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171302[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Almost lastly this line up of 4, 3 from the Cloud City set & the snag, Dengar/Lobot & Han Bespin all in ESB-d's with the Snag in SW-c</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171313[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>& lastly this DSD which came in an open ended baggie, looks like an ESB-d but I can't see any text on it.</p><p></p><p>Gary Borbidge's great find from an ex kenner worker, his name was Denny Keeton and he worked in product integrity (product testing), the find in 2014 included a lot of baggies as well as many loose figures which had been used in the product integrity process at Kenner, all photos & info <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Courtesy of Gary Borbidge</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171303[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204)">The Special Offer Darth Vader Collectors Case find, this is a very cool find, sadly these all ended up on ebay being split up a few years ago, 3 full set's for the Vader/Luke/Yoda issue case & 4 set's of for the Bounty hunter case, Note that this find 100% confirmed the fact that the Bounty hunter case was also issued with the IG88 in the ESB-a rather than ESB-b baggie, the case was the only time this baggie type was ever issued (ESB-b that is), so this baggie type is extreamly rare for any of the 3 figures included as it's one of the rarest of all known production items, but the IG88 infinitely more so due to not always being included in the set, the last example to pop up for sale went in excess of $2k <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="Astonished face :astonished:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" data-shortname=":astonished:" /> it is worth noting that there were no actual cases offered for sale by the seller at the time & these are thought to have been excess overstock from the offer.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]171304[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc">A bit of an obscure one next, a group of multi packs that turned up in one of the final Sellersville Auctions, possibly their final one, all were shall we say less than perfect as you can see, many had started to de-laminate & all had some serious water damage issues, luckily one of the nicest guys in the hobby picked them up & I know he has been doing good deed's making gifts of these to collectors on a budget so huge big up to the ever gracious Shane carter, you sir are what makes this hobby what it should be!, our own Michael Sith is the proud custodian of a couple of them & has done a fantastic job of breathing new life in to tired cardboard, Photo <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Courtesy of Shane Carter</span> maybe not everyone's idea of a grail find, but dang beaters need love to! & I think this is just an awesome find.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172099[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172100[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172101[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A new & exciting find from just this year (2021) from New Zealand of all places, oodles of Logray baggies, in ROTJ-e's & ESB-h baggies, no real detail is known about the find bar it's thought to be overstock that was never sold, Find & Photos <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Courtesy of Jesse Cedar Soberman</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">[ATTACH=full]180181[/ATTACH]</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]180182[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #d1d5d8">Lovely find of Anakin baggies that was just rescued from going to the waste tip, apparently they have been in storage in a garage in Bishopbriggs (Glasgow) Scotland for over 20 years & just popped up on ebay recently (2/2023) there were 180 of them in total & I suspect these were likely stock intended for the ROTJ era Anakin mailer promotion which never saw the light of day.</span></p><p><span style="color: #d1d5d8"></span></p><p><span style="color: #d1d5d8">[ATTACH=full]186001[/ATTACH]</span></p><p></p><p>Image & information <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">courtesy of Oliver Wichmann</span></p><p></p><p>Some history from Oliver Wichmann below -</p><p></p><p>In the early 1990's (I can't remember the actual year) we would go to Fiiey and Scarborough in North Yorkshire during the summer holidays with our young daughter, The weather was often wet and foggy, so we'd be going around the arcades and gift shops to pass the time. It was then whilst looking through a gift/toy shop, that I spotted a basket full of what looked like Star Wars figures. I took a closer look and pulled out the top one – an Emperor in a baggie, next a Dangar &8D8 followed by another 5 Emperors and 4 Bib Fortunas. By now I was so excited that I got a basket and began to fill it with more Bibs,Rancor Keepers, 8D8s and finally 5 Rombas. I ended up with all the below in total -</p><p></p><p>10 x Emperor (Macau Euro-a)</p><p></p><p>6 x Bib Fortuna (Macau Euro-a)</p><p></p><p>5 x Romba (Palitoy-i)</p><p></p><p>5 x Dengar (Euro-b Dark Armor / pale face PBP figure)</p><p></p><p>4 x Rancor Keeper (Macau Euro-a)</p><p></p><p>3 x 8D8(Macau Euro-a)</p><p></p><p>A total of 33 baggies.</p><p></p><p>I didn't know much about their value but knew that Romba was a last 17 which I did not have at the time.</p><p></p><p>The price label said £0.50 per figure and when I got to the till I asked if there was a deal to be had as I wanted to buy them all. We settled on £8.00 for the lot!</p><p></p><p>Eventually life got in the way and I had to store my collection from 1998 till 2023.</p><p></p><p>That year I joined Echo Base and started looking for figures I was still missing as well as getting values for what I had. I had sold off 3 of the Rombas on eBay a few years ago – not sure for how much, but seemed a good price at the time.</p><p></p><p>If anyone has any questions I can forward them on to Oliver who said he'd be happy to answer them.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Additional & very important information -</span> this find really cements the fact that last 17 figures could be found in Palitoy baggies & also confirms that at least some of them came in the Palitoy-i baggies, this really is a nice bit of information & history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frunkstar, post: 548458, member: 314"] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6]Other cool Bulk finds over the years[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp7950.jpg"]170973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp7952.jpg"]170974[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp7948 - Copy.jpg"]170976[/ATTACH] Box side info [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp7949 - Copy.jpg"]170977[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]Box end info[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp7953.jpg"]170982[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]The 3 Tri Logo miss cards I was lucky enough to pick up in the lot & boy did he make me haggle hard for that C-3p0, interesting thing is that although this is a well known combination for a miss carded Tri logo, it is the worlds only confirmed example to have the cargo net included, making it a little more special IMO[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp8010.jpg"]170983[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]Maybe something of little interest to most but I love this piece, it's just the end section of a MOC shipping case for the Wequay figure, the interesting bit being how casually it had been just torn from the box to seemingly keep a tally of what figures the trader still had available & what had been sold[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="imgp8047.jpg"]170984[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]The whole find in the last pic[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][SIZE=5]The Palitoy Emperor Mailer Shipper find[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]This was about 6 or so years back circa 2015, I had been searching for an example of a Palitoy issued Emperor mailer for well over 2 years with not as much as a sniff at one, they were impossible to find back then like many of the Palitoy mailer still are today, then one popped up on ebay out of the blue, life being life I missed the end of the auction & was about to cry TBH when I noticed it had gone unsold, so I messaged the seller & asked if he was going to relist the item, he did, but I then noticed it was a "bulk listing" IE 10 available, so after much back & forth asking questions I agreed to make a long drive & everything fell nicely into place. The backstory here being his farther was a toy trader in the early 90's & what he had was the remaining stock that had long since been as good as forgotten about in the farther loft, the son was doing some work in the loft & mentioned the stuff he saw up there to his farther, who in turn said to see if the son could sell it & make a few pounds for his help on the house. Most of the stuff was pretty run of the mill ROTJ / Tri Logo era carded figures with some mini rigs & various bits & bobs, but he had a lot of Tri Logo miss carded figures (lots) he never let on just how many, but he had been selling them for weeks on ebay, just the 2 usual candidates (Weequay on Warrok card & Weequay on Barada Card), I managed to make a fair deal with some extras to try to help cover my huge investment on the entire shipping case of Emperor mailers, as it was the shipper I was most interested in. A 2nd find of these mailers turned up about 2 years late, no shipping case & I tried to replace the ones I had sold to fill the shipper (as it came 2 short when I bought it) it was only after buying up hundreds of pounds worth of them (maybe 30 to 40 examples) & then putting them in the shipper I discovered they were actually different in size (2mm wider to be exact), so the re-fill turned into a no go as they would not fit :confused: but that led to me inspecting them very carefully & noting they were not quite the same, one as said is 2mm wider, but the box outer white layer was also very different ( 1 being mat & the other glossy), this in mind it would indicate there were in fact different size shippers available for this mailer, likely 200 count like others, whereas mine is an odd 144 count shipper. Another thing (nerd!) I found of interest is my 144 count had both Palitoy-a & Palitoy-n baggies all in the same shipper, so likely a box packed at a changeover time for the baggies within the mailers, most (about 90%) were Palitoy-a but the others were Palitoy-n baggies, there were also a few error baggies (1 with an unpainted hand & another with a cool font print error on the bag). Right the 2nd find backstory - a guy had lots of overstock toys in his home, many of which (including the mailers) were tucked under the bed & had been for over 20 years, one day some cash was needed & one was opened to confirm what was in them, guy was a little shocked as he thought they were toy train parts, no idea how many were in this find, but there were a fair few. Hence Palitoy Emperor mailers now being pretty common place, though still 100 times rarer than their Kenner counterparts, odly no shipping case for the Kenner issued Emperor mailers has ever surfaced, but I suspect they must be out there with the numbers seen. A couple of non baggie images have been included to show what I got in the find.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][SIZE=6][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP8506.JPG"]170985[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP8510 - Copy.JPG"]170987[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][SIZE=4]Box side info, note this is the more regular 200 count type shipper[/SIZE][/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP8507 - Copy.JPG"]170988[/ATTACH] Box end info Palitoy Nien Nunb Shipper Backstory is again toy trader related, but this time it came from Jim Stephenson (god rest his soul), I bought this direct from Jim's son after a 18 month hard fought haggle / agreement along with a few other items including a Palitoy Fett Popy box, circa 2016, as the Emperor shipper got me really focused on baggie related shipping cases, hey who don't love 40 year old smelly cardboard boxes right? [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP2114 - Copy.JPG"]170990[/ATTACH] Above showing the state of play with my Palitoy mailers at one point circa 2016/17 - oh the good old days of actually having some trade bait. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP0083_zpskn3sjsln.jpg"]170991[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP9490.JPG"]170992[/ATTACH] My C-3p0 shipper find, got this after a tip off from a fellow collector & pounced, glad to be able to add another battered brown box to the shipper side focus, pic of a few of the 60+ 3p0 baggies that came with it, as I gather shippers for these were very common with dead stock toy traders in the early 90's, mines in fairly rough shape with water damage, but I love it just the way it is. [ATTACH type="full" alt="2021-01-08_004.jpg"]171054[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Ackbar Palitoy mailer 1983 - Copy_zpslxfamj5w - Copy.jpg"]171055[/ATTACH] A recent find that as it goes popped up here on the forum, lots of great Palitoy issued mailers, note the Dengars are not the regular ESB era issued ones but rather the end of the toy line ROTJ era as would have been sent out for the mailer slip offer (slimmer box & different baggie - Palitoy-a), see there are still cool finds to be unearthed even now. [ATTACH type="full" alt="ERG conformation.JPG"]171056[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="at at drivers - Copy.jpg"]171059[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="at at drivers - Copy (2).jpg"]171060[/ATTACH] A fairly recent cash in the states of overstock baggies, note the At St Driver is a paint app's error baggie (which may I add I sadly missed out on grrr), Photos [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]Courtesy of Johnpaul Ragusa [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)]also note those ERG's in that baggie type we still know pretty much nothing about[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)][ATTACH type="full" alt="124039559_356560505604924_570745753069840864_n(1).jpg"]171061[/ATTACH][/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="123332890_654943278551547_4795255696915546143_n(1).jpg"]171287[/ATTACH] Note the 3 dengars bundled together with a single postage mark & the lone ESB-d baggie example which confirmed these were also sometimes issued with an alternative baggie. [ATTACH type="full" alt="123771019_800000694171647_3500058350557039626_n.jpg"]171289[/ATTACH] Close up of the triple packed one [ATTACH type="full" alt="246443874_1572169219804256_1708979117670390414_n.jpg"]171290[/ATTACH] The 5 palitoy fett mailers from the find, sadly no sealed examples so we are still at the no sealed examples known stage, but this at least finally confirms 100% that the 1st issued ones palitoy sent out were with the ESB-a (1st issue) baggie type, 4 as you can see where still sealed in their baggies & the 5th was opened, 1 flyer was also included in the auction lot [ATTACH type="full" alt="246492745_1572170019804176_1637849802163643316_n.jpg"]171291[/ATTACH] The Survival kit mailers from the lot, thought to be the earlier issued ones Palitoy sent out due to the inclusion of the Kenner logo baggie, later examples have been found with the Palitoy baggie type (no Kenner logo just made in Hong Kong), I can't remember exactly how many there were in total but a fair few with I think 2 lots having come in bundle form like the dengars as you can see by the tape that held them together one bundle comprised 7 as ou can see by the address label shown in the photo. [COLOR=#cccccc]The Astons final auction find, this was rather the insane find of a man who had passed away & left everything stored in his garage to his elderly neighbours, thankfully they met a fate more flattering than a skip & the lot ended up being auctioned off at Aston's in their final sale, this included many great palitoy single mailers shown above, the collector seemed to have been a major hoarder as he had mailers sent out to him in bulk lots, many of the carded figures in the auction (unopened) were missing name plates obviously removed for the mail in offers[/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (1).JPG"]171292[/ATTACH] 5 jawas - 2 in SW-d's & 3 in SW-f's [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (2).JPG"]171293[/ATTACH] 6 R2's all in SW-f's [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (3).JPG"]171294[/ATTACH] 2 Pin head han Solo's in SW-f's 1 Ben in SW-f & 1 Luke in SW-f [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (4).JPG"]171295[/ATTACH] 3 Vaders in SW-d's [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (5).JPG"]171296[/ATTACH] 3 Leia's in SW-f's & 2 C3P0's in SW-f's [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (6).JPG"]171297[/ATTACH] 4 Chewbacca's all in SW'f's [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (7).JPG"]171298[/ATTACH] 4 Stormtoopers in SW-d's & 1 DSD in SW-d [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (7) - Copy.JPG"]171299[/ATTACH] One of the 5 Stormtroopers was an text error baggie (SW-d but no font), bag is an exact match in terms of material type with both heat seals corresponding to the others from the find, really makes you wonder how many un-texted have just been ripped open over the years assumed to be fakes due to no provenance like this find had. [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (9).JPG"]171300[/ATTACH] 4 Tusken Raiders 3 in SW-f's & 1 in SW-d [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (9) - Copy.JPG"]171301[/ATTACH] One of the Tusken's was a weapons error baggie (no gaffi stick) [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (8).JPG"]171302[/ATTACH] Almost lastly this line up of 4, 3 from the Cloud City set & the snag, Dengar/Lobot & Han Bespin all in ESB-d's with the Snag in SW-c [ATTACH type="full" alt="photo (10).JPG"]171313[/ATTACH] & lastly this DSD which came in an open ended baggie, looks like an ESB-d but I can't see any text on it. Gary Borbidge's great find from an ex kenner worker, his name was Denny Keeton and he worked in product integrity (product testing), the find in 2014 included a lot of baggies as well as many loose figures which had been used in the product integrity process at Kenner, all photos & info [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]Courtesy of Gary Borbidge[/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="ESB-b - Copy.jpg"]171303[/ATTACH] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)]The Special Offer Darth Vader Collectors Case find, this is a very cool find, sadly these all ended up on ebay being split up a few years ago, 3 full set's for the Vader/Luke/Yoda issue case & 4 set's of for the Bounty hunter case, Note that this find 100% confirmed the fact that the Bounty hunter case was also issued with the IG88 in the ESB-a rather than ESB-b baggie, the case was the only time this baggie type was ever issued (ESB-b that is), so this baggie type is extreamly rare for any of the 3 figures included as it's one of the rarest of all known production items, but the IG88 infinitely more so due to not always being included in the set, the last example to pop up for sale went in excess of $2k 😲 it is worth noting that there were no actual cases offered for sale by the seller at the time & these are thought to have been excess overstock from the offer.[/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="shane.jpg"]171304[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#cccccc]A bit of an obscure one next, a group of multi packs that turned up in one of the final Sellersville Auctions, possibly their final one, all were shall we say less than perfect as you can see, many had started to de-laminate & all had some serious water damage issues, luckily one of the nicest guys in the hobby picked them up & I know he has been doing good deed's making gifts of these to collectors on a budget so huge big up to the ever gracious Shane carter, you sir are what makes this hobby what it should be!, our own Michael Sith is the proud custodian of a couple of them & has done a fantastic job of breathing new life in to tired cardboard, Photo [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]Courtesy of Shane Carter[/COLOR] maybe not everyone's idea of a grail find, but dang beaters need love to! & I think this is just an awesome find.[/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Cedar 1 - Copy.jpg"]172099[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Cedar 2 - Copy.jpg"]172100[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Cedar 3 - Copy.jpg"]172101[/ATTACH] A new & exciting find from just this year (2021) from New Zealand of all places, oodles of Logray baggies, in ROTJ-e's & ESB-h baggies, no real detail is known about the find bar it's thought to be overstock that was never sold, Find & Photos [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]Courtesy of Jesse Cedar Soberman [ATTACH type="full" alt="s-l1600 - Copy.jpg"]180181[/ATTACH][/COLOR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="s-l1600 (1) - Copy.jpg"]180182[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#d1d5d8]Lovely find of Anakin baggies that was just rescued from going to the waste tip, apparently they have been in storage in a garage in Bishopbriggs (Glasgow) Scotland for over 20 years & just popped up on ebay recently (2/2023) there were 180 of them in total & I suspect these were likely stock intended for the ROTJ era Anakin mailer promotion which never saw the light of day. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0839-1 - Copy.JPG"]186001[/ATTACH][/COLOR] Image & information [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]courtesy of Oliver Wichmann[/COLOR] Some history from Oliver Wichmann below - In the early 1990's (I can't remember the actual year) we would go to Fiiey and Scarborough in North Yorkshire during the summer holidays with our young daughter, The weather was often wet and foggy, so we'd be going around the arcades and gift shops to pass the time. It was then whilst looking through a gift/toy shop, that I spotted a basket full of what looked like Star Wars figures. I took a closer look and pulled out the top one – an Emperor in a baggie, next a Dangar &8D8 followed by another 5 Emperors and 4 Bib Fortunas. By now I was so excited that I got a basket and began to fill it with more Bibs,Rancor Keepers, 8D8s and finally 5 Rombas. I ended up with all the below in total - 10 x Emperor (Macau Euro-a) 6 x Bib Fortuna (Macau Euro-a) 5 x Romba (Palitoy-i) 5 x Dengar (Euro-b Dark Armor / pale face PBP figure) 4 x Rancor Keeper (Macau Euro-a) 3 x 8D8(Macau Euro-a) A total of 33 baggies. I didn't know much about their value but knew that Romba was a last 17 which I did not have at the time. The price label said £0.50 per figure and when I got to the till I asked if there was a deal to be had as I wanted to buy them all. We settled on £8.00 for the lot! Eventually life got in the way and I had to store my collection from 1998 till 2023. That year I joined Echo Base and started looking for figures I was still missing as well as getting values for what I had. I had sold off 3 of the Rombas on eBay a few years ago – not sure for how much, but seemed a good price at the time. If anyone has any questions I can forward them on to Oliver who said he'd be happy to answer them. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Additional & very important information -[/COLOR] this find really cements the fact that last 17 figures could be found in Palitoy baggies & also confirms that at least some of them came in the Palitoy-i baggies, this really is a nice bit of information & history. [/QUOTE]
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