Schleich 16302 Beagle in the rare painting from 1994

Hi Friends,

i´ve sold yesterday the rare Beagle 16302 in the white/black/brown painting for a new record price. The price was 277 Euro = 352 USD. I´ve never seen before a higher price for a single Schleich figur.


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Oh my goodness, that's incredible. I bet you were pleased!

I have seen the auction,
I was astonished, that you sould him. But i think you has still an another one :-)

I have said to Schleich61 that the auction will be ending at 350 Euro.

But 277 Euro is even a very good prize for a figure wich has costs only 2 Euro in 1994.

So i congratulate you.

I can give everybody the tip to look at flewmarket for figures. At children flewmarket i have bought a lot of figures for very small prices.

Admin wrote:

Hi Friends,
i´ve sold yesterday the rare Beagle 16302 in the white/black/brown painting for a new record price. The price was 277 Euro = 352 USD. I´ve never seen before a higher price for a single Schleich figur.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many old Lineol I could buy with this SCHLEICH dog ?

Wow ! I never realised that they fetched those sort of prices o_o

Congratulations !

Yes, Torben, that was a quite an auction, to be sure. I gave up when the bidding passed my maximum bid of 207 euros. At least I won my bet with Peter, as I predicted 290-305 euro range (sorry, Peter!). This beagle was in fantastic condition, and the last one, which was open to German bidders only, went for 251 euros, if memory serves. Between these two auctions, we now have a price range, which is indeed greater than any seen before.

If you auction three or four more of these, Torben, you'll be able to take a very early retirement, eh? :)

Peter's advice is very sound, but it's much more likely to find old rare Schleich at a GERMAN flea-market than an American one, for obvious reasons. Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move
to Germany on a permanent basis?

schleich61 wrote:

Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move
to Germany on a permanent basis?

Thats easy, you must only say, that you are on political threatment because of the governement of Arnold Schwarzenegger. So than you can get political asyl in german.

Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move
to Germany on a permanent basis? [/quote]

Another possibillity could be when you move to Guantanamo. Maybe you will send then to Germany. The shipping is even for free.

schmidtchenschleich wrote:

schleich61 wrote:

Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move
to Germany on a permanent basis?

Thats easy, you must only say, that you are on political threatment because of the governement of Arnold Schwarzenegger. So than you can get political asyl in german.

Thank you for such a useful suggestion, Peter! However, the "Governator" will be out of office in a few months, so I don't think that will work. Maybe I could use the Schleich piglet figures to start a campaign called "Ferkel for Merkel." Surely that would get me into Germany, right?

Admin wrote:

Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move to Germany on a permanent basis?

Another possibillity could be when you move to Guantanamo. Maybe you will send then to Germany. The shipping is even for free. [/quote]

Gee, Torben, you're really helpful, too. Cuba is supposed to be a very hot and humid climate, so I wouldn't do well there, especially if they kept me in one of those horrible outdoor metal dog cages. If the U.S. government then wanted to move me abroad to a foreign country for an "enhanced interrogation vacation" they wouldn't send me to Germany, but rather some place much, much nicer, like Pakistan, Syria or Afghanistan. I understand that then they introduce you to a very big mean male dog who becomes your "companion" whether you like it or not.

For the record, I think I would prefer to have a 16302 Black and White Beagle as my pet.

schleich61 wrote:

Admin wrote:

Which leads me to another question - how difficult is it for an American to move to Germany on a permanent basis?

Another possibillity could be when you move to Guantanamo. Maybe you will send then to Germany. The shipping is even for free.

Gee, Torben, you're really helpful, too. Cuba is supposed to be a very hot and humid climate, so I wouldn't do well there, especially if they kept me in one of those horrible outdoor metal dog cages. If the U.S. government then wanted to move me abroad to a foreign country for an "enhanced interrogation vacation" they wouldn't send me to Germany, but rather some place much, much nicer, like Pakistan, Syria or Afghanistan. I understand that then they introduce you to a very big mean male dog who becomes your "companion" whether you like it or not. [/quote]

OK Phil,

no good idea with Guantanamo.

[quote="Admin"]Hi Friends,

i´ve sold yesterday the rare Beagle 16302 in the white/black/brown painting for a new record price. The price was 277 Euro = 352 USD. I´ve never seen before a higher price for a single Schleich figur.




Congratulations, man! What? 277 Euros? That's my three months of food allowance already.
Is that a record breaking for a single Schleich animal figure purchase already? I think it is, no more questions ask. By the way, who bought that figure, is that Bill Gates?

Admin wrote:

Hi Friends,
The price was 277 Euro = 352 USD. I´ve never seen before a higher price for a single Schleich figur.

The highest price wich i have seen for a schleich figure was 350 Euro for the rare pinto.
The last pinto on ebay gets only 120 Euro.
At this time somebody offers him for 400 Euro. She will never getting to sell him i think.

schmidtchenschleich wrote:

Admin wrote:

Hi Friends,
The price was 277 Euro = 352 USD. I´ve never seen before a higher price for a single Schleich figur.

The highest price wich i have seen for a schleich figure was 350 Euro for the rare pinto.
The last pinto on ebay gets only 120 Euro.
At this time somebody offers him for 400 Euro. She will never getting to sell him i think.

Hello Peter. Did anyone actually purchase or win on auction for that amount (350)? That last pinto went for 120 minimum bid, but could have been purchased as a Sofort Kaufen (Buy It Now) for 130 euros!!! The bidder who won it on auction and saved 10 euros is a pretty shrewd poker player, I would say!

As for the 400 euro pinto, maybe that includes the "stud fee".....

Wel guys, what should i say, i was in this auction too!
I was hunting for rare Schleichs particular the last days of the last week...
And i was the one who missed this beagle, because i was watching football at a friends house, and i forgot about the time...
I was into this auction untill 245 euro's or so, and i was 10 minutes too late for the end of the auction when i remembered...
And for the same reason i lost the auction on the 16306 Grey Schnauzer too...

But for that i was lucky enough to win the other old 16302 Beagle, the 16306 Black Schnauzer, the 16324 German shorthair-pointer, the 13238 Hofhund, Bullyland Longhair Dachshound, Shar-Pei, St.Bernhard, French Bulldog, Komodovaran, Roebuck, Seal and Farmerswife, AAA Panda, McDonalds Lion, 4 Papo Catalogues, Yowie Seahorse, Wenkercrab, Turtleneck Tortoise and Cairns Butterfly from Torben....

From somebody else i won the 16322 New Foundlander and the 16303 darkbrown Boxer.

Further i won one of the Schleich puzzles with horse yesterday, and a nice group of Schleich marine-life, under which the beluga, narwal, hamerhead shark, whaleshark and orca.

The last item i won yesterday was the old 13210 white horse.

And not to forget, that i won lots of auctions the last 32 weeks, which will come in here in the coming time.

Now you have 2 belugas,Willy!You know what it means:TRADE TRADE TRADE.
Pls pls pls,I have been searching for one,well,for 7 years!!!!

It seems like the new job is prolific!You were even going to pay..OH my gosh!...more than 200 euros for the beagle.And you also bought the others!
By any chance,did you bid from a seller with schleich boxed sets(fence,glass fence,zoo symbols)and 3 giraffes?

Me has an woman offers 260 Figures of Schleich from the 90ies and the 80ies for similar 450 Euro.

I think, when you can wait you can get every figure for an fairy prize.

Nowadays there is an Hype for Schleich figures, but next year they could be cheap, cheaper and cheaper. Its a game like to deal with stocks.

In my journey in netherland i bought from a child 9 Schleich horses for only 7 Euros.
Keep your eyes open and you can find everything. The cheapest prize for a Schleich Horse wich i bought was 20 Cent.

Hi Wildheart...
When it comes in, i do have two beluga's indeed, which i have to compare first with my own of course, to see if there are any differences.

I lost my last job at the Dutch post at the 31th of december 2009, so i don't know where you talking about WH...haha.
I was un-employed since then, but exactly today i started working again for an old employer, the Scania Truck company, where i worked already two times before.

But next to that, in this month, in Holland the hollyday money comes in, but i don't think you have that kind of thing in a lot of other countries, but it is a good month to spend anyway.
And for the bid...well, when a model like this beagle comes by only once a year, and when you can get it from " The Man" himself, then you should never let your chance go, but i missed it...

Schmidtchen is right on getting cheap models on flee-markets or so. :)
But these rare Schleichs will never get much cheaper anymore, only more expensive.
The coming hollyday season can be good, because many bidders are away from home.
But for that, the Christmas season will be more expensive then normal...

So, Willy, you've created a new ID to bid on these items? A number of us were wondering who that hyper-aggressive new bidder might be.....and now we know. Did you realize that I was the one who kept exposing your protected bids.....

I think Amy stole that grey schnauzer from you at the last second! But, you've won a huge number of very rare figures - CONGRATULATIONS$$$!!!

I now recognize your bidding strategies, so you should, of course, utilize different ones in the future to fool me and others!

Haha, i did not create a new ID to fool people, but because i had some issues with some sellers long before...
But as ebay.de is the best place to hunt for older Schleich, i had to make a new account, as it is easy to make new e-mail adresses, so new accounts too...

When i really want something, yes, i go for it, untill the price goes into the no limits zone, and the model is not worth it maybe...
But for the old beagle, yes of course, how many times do you see him pass by...
I guess, he will be about 400 euro's the next time he passes by...

I am only happy for fellow collectors when they win something new for their collection, if it is you or Amy, specially those people i know very good.
The fact that i lost some items, is because i forgot about the time, the oldest rare beagle and maybe the grey schnauzer would possibly be mine, but they will come again...
But like i said, it is nice to buy from Torben, as you know then that you have good stuff!

I think you can see some of my tactics, but you never will see all of course...haha.
But maybe it is better to tell eachother when one of us is hunting for a special item, so that the price will kept down a little bit more...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Haha, i did not create a new ID to fool people, but because i had some issues with some sellers long before...
But as ebay.de is the best place to hunt for older Schleich, i had to make a new account, as it is easy to make new e-mail adresses, so new accounts too...

When i really want something, yes, i go for it, untill the price goes into the no limits zone, and the model is not worth it maybe...
But for the old beagle, yes of course, how many times do you see him pass by...
I guess, he will be about 400 euro's the next time he passes by...

I am only happy for fellow collectors when they win something new for their collection, if it is you or Amy, specially those people i know very good.
The fact that i lost some items, is because i forgot about the time, the oldest rare beagle and maybe the grey schnauzer would possibly be mine, but they will come again...
But like i said, it is nice to buy from Torben, as you know then that you have good stuff!

I think you can see some of my tactics, but you never will see all of course...haha.
But maybe it is better to tell eachother when one of us is hunting for a special item, so that the price will kept down a little bit more...

It was interesting to see a "new" eBay ID pursue the beagle so assiduously, but it was obvious that the bidder was a very serious collector. Now we know for sure that was correct.....

I agree 100% about the really rare figures - if you want one, you have to earn it by paying the price, which can be quite painful, of course! I don't know who won the beagle, but CONGRATS to him/her. I'm sure it is going to a very serious collector who will make a nice home for it. 400 euros for the next one is surely too much, but maybe 300 is not out of the question.

I have an alarm-clock, which is battery-operated, as well as another on my PC, so that I do not miss the mark. I like to compete in auctions, but if I lose something that I really wanted, I can only respect and congratulate the winner. In an auction, the "most deserving" party is always the winner. It's the same in pro club football, where they say that "the league table never lies."

Well Phil, serious of course!
I collected my last Schleich collection in only one year or so, without the older beagles by the way, and without the grey schnauzer too.
I do have the advantage to know which items are rare, and what the price should or can be...

I always accept a higher bidding too, as that is a person who wants this pain in his or her wallet too...

I guess and hope that you are right about the next bidding on a beagle like that, but i wouldn't wonder if it went up very high.

I did put my cell-phone on alarm too several times the last week, but i didn't do it on these items... , and i was not home of course...

Congratulations Torben on getting such great prices on these auctions. Congratulation Willy on your wins as well. Yes, I did outbid you on the grey schnauzer, so that will be another I can mark off my list. That only leaves the black poodle and the very expensive beagle to go.