Odds Ends Figure Found Request Toy Show, I start off with a request to identify a figure. Next, Art Etchols has a request. I review the Allentown Vintage Toy Show. Finally, I remember a great friend who passed away.
Odds Ends Figure Found Helping Out
Can You Help?
Art Etchells is looking for some figures. If you can help him contact me and I will pass along the information to him. I do not allow email in the comments for safety issues.
I am sure you remember me from MFCA shows across the years.
I am looking for some Russian plastic semi-flat figures.
I have recently returned to painting and find these figures suit me and give me great pleasure.
In recent years I have gotten the figures on EBay under the name WAB which I think stands for Warriors and Battles.
Michigan Toy also stocked them. Of course, the tragic Ukrainian War caused the Ebay source to disappear.
There were other makers whose figures I have never obtained. I once saw a set of strelets infantry with a flag on Facebook.
I am interested in obtaining some more sets. I have cleaned out what I want from Michigan Toy.
I will pay cash or trade some Engineer Basevitch figures for plastic semi-flats that I do not have.
I would appreciate it if you would post this if you thought it appropriate or of interest to your readers.
Plastic semi-flats are a peculiarity of the Russian collector.
Cheers
ART
Allentown Vintage Toy Show 2022 a Review
The Allentown Vintage Toy show was bittersweet for me this year. The show has been going on for over 40 years and I believe I have been to most of them. Because of my walking, I decided to wait until the crowd got in. The crowd was in 13 minutes after opening. It used to take an half hour in the old days. I went looking if Mike Russo set up he was not. At the end of the row that Mike would have been Bob was set up. I bought from him a nice selection of Marx and Britains figures. Next, I stopped at Keri’s table and got some figures including two MPC army figures with red-brown accessories.
Because of my walking, I would do only two rows and rest. I noticed that a number of tables were empty more than normal. Realizing I was getting tired I headed to the stands of the Kozlowski’s. This time it was not to buy anything but to check on the status of a very good friend Rich Kozlowski. Rich’s blood cancer had reappeared and he had been given only two months to live. His brother Bob was there after we hugged we talked. I gave my good wishes to him and the family.
After that, I decided to leave the show. The Allentown Vintage Toy Show is a great show for vintage toys. you can see a review here from Alice Cloos. Alice also posted photos here.
Rich Kozlowski Has Passed Away
Rich was a fantastic hunter he came up with so many unusual and unique items. If you had a dealer day dealers would be at his table to buy as they knew they had customers for it. I enjoy sitting with him as people would come in asking for items. Many times he would have it. Rich with his wife Kathy got to travel and they enjoyed life.
He will be missed.
Good recognition very fast ,the figure looks like salty corroded ,but still a casualty .
Sad news on passing friend .Time is getting on top of us very quickly .
Most former flat figures from soviet era are still not hard to find if you look on ebay under others not Russia countries seller ,such Poland ,Bulgaria, Hungary ,Rumania ,Czechoslovakia ,DDR and so on on eBay ,but often no full sets .The one former old soviet reissued and new made are harder now as direct from Russia .
Sellers from Ukraine overall ship out stuff ,may take awhile but still does .
Sorry to hear about Rich Kozlowski, he sounds like a great guy. Our hobby is steadily dwindling. It’s just as bad with guys from my old units; every time I sign on to one of our pages I hear of another guy I served with or under passing. One of the prices of growing old – not for sissies. My thoughts and prayers for the family.
I hope all is well out there.
Just learned historian and gamer (I believe) Christopher Duffy has passed. Another one gone. As I’ve stated elsewhere, our ranks are thinning. I wonder (only half in jest) whether a bunch of us ought to chip in for a bottle of wine to be opened and drunk in a toast by the last of us someplace fitting – like Chicago in September.