Following Woodsy's article on urban exploring and abandoed toy shops, I went back to look at Iain Duff's coverage of the shop left by Frank Beech. Iain's original blog post is very informative, but his Flickr account has even more photographs in it. Onein particular confirms my suspicions that buried within that ramshackle store of decades of toys, would have been some familiar space toys. Unfortunately, Vectis were called in to value and auction the stock, so what may have lain unopened on a shelf somewhere, we may never know.
ha haa! yes, I see it. probe Force 2. But why no box? Did they come loose in some toy shops?
ReplyDeleteI was about to ask the same question. A display example perhaps?
ReplyDeleteDid you find anything else interesting in those pics Bill?
I recall Vectis had three separate and exclusive Beech auctions. The lots should still be searchable on their website.
https://downthetubes.net/?p=21309
DeleteCould be the box has simply fallen open, or even rotted away. A lot of hands will have sifted through those toys before Iain went in too. I couldn’t see anything else spacey, but the Vectis site could be an option
ReplyDeleteAn amazing story and haul Wote. There must have been some SpaceX somewhere there too. Thanks for the link Arto.
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