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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:28 pm

Howdy,

VermilionFire wrote:I still kick myself for not getting the chance to bid on that TSR lizardman. I had a manual snipe that went awry, and the lizardman ended up going for a song to IO.

Don't despair! The Collector's Trove will be offering a 1977 Grenadier TSR Lizard Man Logo Miniature in the Kevin Hendryx auction in the upcoming months. I am just waiting to receive a few manuscripts from Kevin and a run of the Random Events TSR newsletter.

Futures Bright,

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:34 pm

The Collector's Trove wrote:Don't despair! The Collector's Trove will be offering a 1977 Grenadier TSR Lizard Man Logo Miniature in the Kevin Hendryx auction in the upcoming months. I am just waiting to receive a few manuscripts from Kevin and a run of the Random Events TSR newsletter.

Woohoo! That's great news, thanks Paul!

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:18 pm

VermilionFire wrote:
Woohoo! That's great news, thanks Paul!

indeed

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:36 pm

Blackmoor wrote:
indeed

I think Paul and Kevin Hendryx may be very happy, very soon. :wink:

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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:33 pm

Nice win netrodent: I'm surprised that this 4th went so cheaply:

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:09 am

It's the exact same one I sold to her at auction for $30 two months ago. She stripped off the duct tape. Seems to have come off OK

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:45 am

Still regret having sold mine. It was minty. On the other hand, it went to a good member of the boards here, so it's still "in the family" so to speak.

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:31 pm

bombadil wrote:Still regret having sold mine. It was minty. On the other hand, it went to a good member of the boards here, so it's still "in the family" so to speak.

I've never even seen any of the earlier prints, let alone had one to sell

. I have an OCE (box slightly battered, books minty perfection) that came along with an ancient pair of d10s (the 20-sided variety) still in a wee blister pack. I was lucky to snag it for just under $60 from my old flgs, who didn't seem to know what it was. Although, to be fair, I didn't really know what it was either and only discovered its value later. Heh, not exactly a "recent" fun find, but it got me started on collecting the good old stuff.

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:50 pm

Kamelion wrote:I've never even seen any of the earlier prints, let alone had one to sell . I have an OCE (box slightly battered, books minty perfection) that came along with an ancient pair of d10s (the 20-sided variety) still in a wee blister pack. I was lucky to snag it for just under $60 from my old flgs, who didn't seem to know what it was. Although, to be fair, I didn't really know what it was either and only discovered its value later. Heh, not exactly a "recent" fun find, but it got me started on collecting the good old stuff.

At one time I think I had about 12-14 of the White Box Sets in all. What can I say, except that I was crazy for them...... :oops:

As I recall 3 of them were OCE's and the rest were other various print runs, including one set of the uncommon 4 plus and another set for which the box and each book were all signed by Gary Gygax.

I still have a near mint 4th print White Box, and a near mint 2nd Print wood grain box set with Minty books.

While it was a pleasure having them all back then, I cannot imagine owning 12-14 White Box Sets ever again........

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:26 pm

Aneoth wrote:
At one time I think I had about 12-14 of the White Box Sets in all. What can I say, except that I was crazy for them......

As I recall 3 of them were OCE's and the rest were other various print runs, including one set of the uncommon 4 plus and another set for which the box and each book were all signed by Gary Gygax.

I still have a near mint 4th print White Box, and a near mint 2nd Print wood grain box set with Minty books.

While it was a pleasure having them all back then, I cannot imagine owning 12-14 White Box Sets ever again........

Don't worry Aneoth I still have two of them!!!! The Gygax signed version, and one of the 4th prints. And the rest went to Acaeum members for the most part, so they all got good homes.
Interestingly, the prices for white boxes seem to flucuate a lot. I bet with time and persistance someone could collect in the double digits in about a year's time without too much effort or cost.

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:52 pm

Been after one for a long time and finally got one, at a good price too!

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:40 pm

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The Dungeon Masters Guide is an Acaeum ranked 5th printing, which I hadn't managed to get a hold of until now.

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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:05 pm

ifearyeti wrote:
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The Dungeon Masters Guide is an Acaeum ranked 5th printing, which I hadn't managed to get a hold of until now.

All that for $29.00? Sweet

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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:15 pm

Nice win Grubbiv...

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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:49 pm

The Collector's Trove wrote:Don't despair! The Collector's Trove will be offering a 1977 Grenadier TSR Lizard Man Logo Miniature in the Kevin Hendryx auction in the upcoming months. I am just waiting to receive a few manuscripts from Kevin and a run of the Random Events TSR newsletter.

Hey Paul, any chance that Trudy would be able to release a limited-edition reissue of this figure, to help support Dave's kids' college fund?

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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:46 pm

Howdy Allan,

grodog wrote:Hey Paul, any chance that Trudy would be able to release a limited-edition reissue of this figure, to help support Dave's kids' college fund?

It belongs to Kevin Hendryx. As to the re-issue of it, it is copyrighted by Grenadier and is an original corporate logo of TSR. So I dunno.

I bet Richard could have his sculptor make up one from the original Bell drawing. :wink:

Futures Bright,

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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:17 pm

The Collector's Trove wrote:It belongs to Kevin Hendryx. As to the re-issue of it, it is copyrighted by Grenadier and is an original corporate logo of TSR. So I dunno.

Ah, sorry, I was crossing my mental wires there. Does Andy Chernak (sp?) own most of the rights to the Grenadier lines, or would the sculptor of that original Lizardman still retain them??

The Collector's Trove wrote:I bet Richard could have his sculptor make up one from the original Bell drawing.

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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:59 am

I jump-started my collection of Dragon magazines last night with this:

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I thought $17 +S/H was a reasonable price.

I already had two issues from 1979, so I'm now looking to fill in the rest of my collection from issues 1 through 150.

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