At the Delaware Toy show. I found a dealer had the two different Remco Voyage to the Bottom of Sea Divers. I passed on them as I could not remember what they were selling for. When I got home and checked the internet and EBay, I found that I had goofed. The price the dealer had asked was fair. I said oh well there will be other times. so I went to work on three junk bags I had bought at the Delaware Show. Going through the figures I discovered that one bag had the two divers! The figures were slightly better than the ones I almost bought as the ones in the junk bag had the tabs on the bottom. These tabs are usually broken off because when they are left on the figures they will not stand. So sometimes you can still win after you have lost.
THAT is landing on your feet. The way REMCO used to package their toy soldiers used to tick me off! I remember trying to get those pegs off their World War I figures. I wish I still had them, though – even with their goofy colors.
If those two figures fell into my hands today, the first thing I would do would be to cut off the tabs, exactly as the manufacturer intended.
Don, I totally agree. I guess I’ll never get rich because I bought (and would buy if I still read them) comic books to READ, and my toy soldiers to play with. Awful hard to play with those REMCO figures with the tabs intact.
Wayne
I was surprised the tabs were still on. I usually find the figures with out of the tab. I have no problem selling with out the tab.
Agreed. I’m not a Mint-in-Box kind of guy. I enjoy my stuff and it sees (non-damaging) action.
Paul! What luck! Incredible!
Greg
Thank you for the kind words. I have been lucky over the years in the items I have found. sometimes I am looking one way and something pop out the other way. One of the stories I tell was years ago I went farmers market to get some apple fritters. I was walking around before buying the fritters and I see a table with figures lay out on a table. the guys says they are all different prices. I shake my head but ask a price on one of the figures a Palmer monster. He says that is $2.00. I pick it up and ask the price on the next one he says a price and I pick it up. Before it was all over I had the whole table of figures and forgot to get my apple fritters.
I’ll give you 5 apple fritters for a Palmer King Kong! 😀
I bet you can pay more; chances are Paul will find it faster than any of us.
My ignorance was so great back in time, that I had pass many, included palmer vintage figures at garage sale/flea markets before. Now I know much more but not time to do those trips.